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Palazzo Vecchio
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Arnolfo di Cambio’s mighty town hall (1299–1302) is still Florence’s seat of government. Cosimo I hired Vasari to redecorate in the 1540s, frescoing a Medici marriage around Michelozzo’s 1453 courtyard and swathing the gargantuan Sala dei Cinquecento with an apotheosis of the Medici dynasty. Francesco I shut himself away from matters of state in his Studiolo to conduct scientific experiments.
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Piazza della Signoria 1
Open 9am–7pm Fri–Wed and 9am–2pm Thu (extended hours Mon and Fri during summer) Admission charge
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