BARGELLO, Palace

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  • Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
  • Language: English / USA

Hi, I'm Debbie, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through the Bargello Museum, which is one of Florence's most engaging museums!

It is dedicated to sculpture and has many Renaissance masterpieces, but going there is also an opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful medieval palaces in the city.

As massive and severe as a fortress, it's located very close to Palazzo Vecchio. This stone palace before you was worked on many different times since the mid-1200s, also incorporating an older tower. The large mass dominated by the tower almost seems like the symbol of the ancient Florentine Republic: austere, solid, and noble. The "bargello" that gave the building its name was the head of the police, and in fact the judicial offices and detention cells were here; in the 14th-century courtyard, capital executions were held....

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