Palazzo Pitti

About

Palazzo Pitti is one of Florence’s grandest landmarks, a vast Renaissance palace that once housed the Medici, Lorraine, and Savoy dynasties. Built in the 15th century for the Pitti family and later expanded into a royal residence, the palace today hosts several major museums, including the Palatine Gallery, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, and the Gallery of Modern Art. Its opulent rooms, frescoed ceilings, and extraordinary art collections offer a vivid journey through centuries of Florentine power and taste. Behind the palace, the sweeping Boboli Gardens extend across the hillside, forming one of Italy’s most influential examples of formal landscape design. Palazzo Pitti remains a monumental expression of Florence’s cultural and artistic legacy.

Florence Italy

Location

Palazzo Pitti is located in Florence's Oltrarno district at Piazza de' Pitti 1, on the south bank of the Arno River, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio bridge. This vast Renaissance palace, originally built for banker Luca Pitti in the 1450s and later acquired by the Medici family, now serves as a major museum complex housing the Palatine Gallery, modern art collections, silverworks, and royal apartments. Nearby attractions include the expansive Boboli Gardens behind the palace, the iconic Ponte Vecchio with its jewelry shops just across the river, lively Piazza Santo Spirito and its market square, the artisan workshops of Santo Spirito neighborhood, Giardino Bardini hillside gardens, and easy walks to Palazzo Vecchio, Uffizi Galleries, or Piazza della Signoria amid the historic center's pedestrian streets.