MEDICI CHAPELS, The Chapel Of Princes

Hi, I'm James, 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 Medici Chapels, which are some of the most fascinating places in Florence!

The vast complex of the Basilica of San Lorenzo offers such a large variety of itineraries that you almost forget that you're still in the same monument! Once you leave the basilica you can also walk around the open market, which with its leather stalls adds a touch of cheerful confusion. Generation after generation in San Lorenzo, the Medici reflected the changes of artistic taste over the centuries: from the humanism of Brunelleschi, to the full Renaissance with the marvelous Old Sacristy designed by Michelangelo, to the Baroque magnificence represented by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, or Workshop of semi-precious stones.

The entrance to the Medici Chapels is completely independent and is located at the back of the church, in Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini, which is always crowded and dominated by the Baroque dome of the Cappella dei Principi, or Chapel of Princes. It almost seems like the entrance to a museum, but you shouldn't forget that you're entering the great burial ground of the family that marked the city's history from the 1400s to the 1700s!...