Discover the former residence of the Medici family: Palazzo Pitti, today one of the biggest museum complexes in Italy also renowned for the magnificent Boboli Gardens. Admire myriad of masterpieces such as Raphael’s Velata, Titian’s Bella, and the Virgin with Child by Filippo Lippi.
The palace owes its name to the first owner Luca Pitti, who commissioned the project to the famous architect Filippo Brunelleschi in 1440. Due to project issues and to the political ill-luck of Luca who was a bitter enemy of the Medici, the works were suspended.
Cosimo I de Medici and his wife Eleanor of Toledo bought the palace in 1550, and later it became the residence of two other dynasties: the Augsburg-Lorraine and the Savoy, the Kings of Italy.
You will walk through the wide frescoed rooms decorated with stuccoes by Pietro da Cortona, Italy's most famous Baroque artist, and marvel at the masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Rosso Fiorentino, Rubens, Perugino and Sustermans on display at the Palatine Gallery.
Entrance tickets to Pitti Palace
Boboli Gardens tickets and tour (on request)
