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FLORENCE: PIAZZA SIGNORIA
Cathedral Square (Duomo) | Piazza Signoria & Palazzo Vecchio | Michelangelo's David (Academy Gallery) | Palazzo Pitti | Uffizi Gallery & Old Bridge (Ponte Vecchio) | Santa Croce | Events and Exhibitions in Florence | San Lorenzo District
Piazza
della Signoria is the most antique part of Florence. Tha area was confirmed
as being the site of Neolithic settlement, and underneath the Medieval
houses were discovered remains of the Roman city: thermal baths
and a workshop for the dying of cloth.
The square took shape in a rather unusual way, being the result of vengeance
and anger rather than an urbanistic creation.
In 1268 the Guelph party gained control of Florence and decided
to raze the houses of their Ghibelline rivals to the ground.
Thirty six houses were demolished, leaving an “L”-shaped piece
of no man’s land where nothing was ever to be built again.
Piazza
della Signoria got its name from the most important monument there,
Palazzo della Signoria, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1298-99.
The palace became the residence of the Medici family and the political
heart of the city. When the Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and
his family moved to the new palace of Pitti
in 1565, Palazzo della Signoria began to be known as Palazzo Vecchio
(the Old Palace).
The square however is not just the "civil" centre of Florence,
it is also a splendid open-air museum. Among the sculptures
in front of the Palazzo Vecchio there is the copy of Michalangelo’s
world famous “David” and Ammannati’s Fountain of Neptune.
The equestrian statue of Cosimo I in the middle of the square was
made by Giambologna.
On the south side of the square, between the Palazzo Vecchio and the Arno
river, you walk under the late Gothic roof of the Loggia dei Lanzi,
part of the famous Uffizi museum. The loggia covers 15 statues
which also include Benvenuto Cellini's wonderful Perseus holding
up the head of the Medusa.
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