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Palazzo Medici Riccardi & the Cappella dei Magi
(Via Cavour 3
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Via dei Gori takes you right from Piazza San Lorenzo to Via Cavour alongside the famous paradigm of Florentine Renaissance palaces, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, whose “rusticated” stonework, was the inspiration for the design of both the Palazzo Pitti and the Palazzo Strozzi. Constructed under orders of Cosimo Il Vecchio between 1444 and 1462 by Michelozzo to serve as a family home near to the family church, it passed to the Riccardi family in the 17th century. They renovated and enlarged it to the extent that only the chapel remains intact of the original work, fortunately retaining the Benozzo Gozzoli fresco of the Journey of the Magi (above, 1460). Today the building is the home of Florence’s Prefecture. you can visit the palazzo’s peaceful inner courtyard and its 17th-century first-floor lobby, which has a Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and Child.
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