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Between public and private court life: a Palace for three dynasties.Purchased in 1550, the Palace was chosen by Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife Eleanor of Toledo as the new Grand Ducal residence, and it soon became the new symbol of the Medici’s power over Tuscany.

The Gucci Garden, situated inside the historic Palazzo della Mercanzia on Piazza della Signoria, narrates the House’s new vision while celebrating the archives including old advertising campaigns, artisans’ images, retro objects. The newly designed space has been curated by critic Maria Luisa Frisa. The journey inside the exhibition space that spans across two floors begins inside ‘Guccification’, the room where the Double G motif features in many forms then it follows in the room ‘Paraphernalia’, dedicated to signature codes and symbols that define Gucci’s identity and ‘Cosmorama’ the room that reveals the historical jet-set customer of Gucci and the evolution of the Crest. The gallery continues on the second floor with ‘De Rerum Natura’, two rooms that recall natural history museums. The sensory journey ends with ‘Ephemera’, an environment where the gaze of the present composes landscapes of objects, videos and memorabilia that retrace the history of the House. A store with one-of-a-kind items and the 'Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura' — a restaurant by three-Michelin-star chef - complement the exhibition spaces to create a destination location for visitors.

Santa Maria Novella, by its nature is a religious site. It has currently a new form that seeks to harmonize the religious and cultural dimensions.Opera for Santa Maria Novella is responsible for reconciling the needs of both pilgrims and visitors even welcoming them at different times.Basilica of Santa Maria Novella was founded by the monks of Dominican Order in the first half of the thirteenth century, becoming one of the most important points of religious and artistic interest in Italy. The celebrity of Santa Maria Novella during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period attracted important artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli and Vasari (just name a few), who realized beautiful artworks inside the complex.

Villa Vittoria, located in a wonderful setting in the park of Firenze Fiera, in the center of Florence , with its special evenings: from Wednesday to Saturday, from aperitif and dinner, with a rich buffet and entertainment until late at night, accompanied by always different musical atmospheres.

The monuments of the complex of Santa Maria del Fiore, symbol of Florence in the world, constitutes one single big open-air museum located in the main square, Piazza del Duomo, religious, historical and artistic center of the city.

The new Manifattura Tabacchi is revitalising the old tobacco factory, active for over seventy years before its closure in 2001. The ambitious regeneration project aims to bring a new district of the city to life, giving it the creative energy of fashion, art and design, complementing the historic city centre, open to all and connected to the wider world: a new contemporary destination in Florence.The Masterplan provides a functional mix where the original and the newly constructed buildings will host schools, ateliers and laboratories, office and co-working spaces, cultural spaces, studio apartments, housing, a hotel, halls of residence, a theatre and a kindergarden: the gates that once isolated the factory will open the complex up to the city and the wider world.

The foundation of the Galleria dates back to 1784, when the Grand Duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo reorganized the Academy of Arts of Design in Florence, founded in 1563 by Cosimo I de ‘Medici, in the modern Academy of Fine Arts. The new institution occupied the premises of the fourteenth-century Hospital of San Matteo and those of the convent of San Niccolò di Cafaggio. The museum was enriched with the suppression of churches and convents ordered by Pietro Leopoldo in 1786 and by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1810. However, the decisive event for the history of the museum was the transfer of Michelangelo’s David from Piazza della Signoria, in August 1873. The most famous sculpture in the world waited nine years, in a wooden box, for the construction of the Tribune designed by architect Emilio De Fabris to host it. Today’s Galleria dell’Accademia was established in 1882.