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Although today is the seat of the town of Florence, a large part of the Palazzo Vecchio is open to visitors. Monument of great artistic and historical heritage, the building was for centuries the political center and the symbol of the city.

Among the rooms to be visited are the Salone dei Cinquecento, the study of Francesco I and the four monumental apartment: the Apartments of the Elements, the Apartments of Eleanor, the Residenza dei Priori and the Apartments of Leo X. The Salone dei Duecento is normally used for official meetings of the municipality and not always open to the public. Inside the palace there are important frescoes painted by Ghirlandaio, Francesco Salviati, Bronzino and Vasari. There are also masterpieces of Renaissance sculpture as the Genius of Victory by Michelangelo and Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes. 

Type of objects: frescos, sculptures, paintings, furniture.

Important works: Among the most important works are the Victory statue by Michelangelo in the Salone dei Cinquecento, the Judith by Donatello, the winged cherub by Verrocchio. Moreover Ghirlandaio frescoes in the Sala dei Gigli, Salviati frescoes in the Audience Hall, Bronzino frescoes in the Chapel of Eleonora and Vasari frescoes in Salone dei Cinquecento and in the Medicean quarters. Refined collective witness of the late Florentine Mannerist is the study of Francesco I.

Address: piazza della Signoria Firenze Telo: 055-2768325 E-mail: gestione.musei@comune.firenze.it

Opening Hours: 9-19 hours; Thursday and public holidays midweek 9-14 hours. Closed for New Year's Day, Easter, May 1, August, Christmas.

Price: 6.00 €; 4.50 € reduced youth 18-25 years and elderly over 65 years € 4.50; reduced for children 3-17 years and 2.00 € schools. Family ticket for 4 persons (2 adults, 2 children) 14.00 €; family 5 persons (2 adults, 3 children) 16.00 €.

Handicap access: YES

Exhibition area: 3284 sqm

Exhibition halls: 35

Walking in Palazzo Vecchio: Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of Five Hundred).