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Pitti Palace

Pitti-Palace.jpgThe Palazzo Pitti is a grand Renaissance palace built in the second half of the 15th century based on the project of Filippo Brunelleschi and Luca Pitti. Today, it houses several important collections of paintings and sculpture, works of art, porcelain and a costume gallery, besides providing a magnificently decorated historical setting which extends to the Boboli Gardens, one of the earliest Italian gardens famous also for its fountains and grottoes.

The palace and the gardens house the Palatine Gallery, the Silver Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Costume Gallery, the Porcelain Museum and the Museum of Carriages.

Pitti Palace
Via della Ninna, 5
Florence, Italy 50122
Via della Ninna, 5
+39 055 23885
www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/palazzopitti


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