The history of the Frescobaldis begins around the year 1000, when the first members of the family moved to Florence from Val di Pesa, where we still find the Castiglioni estate today, the family's oldest agricultural possession. The Frescobaldis settled in the Oltrarno part of the city in Piazza de' Frescobaldi where they built the loggia, the tower and the palace. The first news of the Frescobaldi winemaking activity dates back to 1308.
During the period of Florence as capital Palazzo Vecchio became for obvious reasons the center of power of the new Italian State. Inside, due to the size of the various rooms, the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were placed. But at that point the problem arose of the municipal offices, where to place all the aforementioned rooms with the staff? As often happens in our times, even at the time the Municipality owned various properties in the city, a medieval building was chosen for its size and proximity to the city's center of power: Palazzo Spini Feroni.
The Frescobaldi family of Florence is one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in Italy, with a rich history dating back to the Middle Ages. They gained wealth and influence through banking, commerce, and land ownership, becoming one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Renaissance Florence.
Near S.Trinita Bridge in front of the Palazzo della Missione, we find a nineteenth-century building which on the ground floor houses some commercial shops (copy shop and ice cream shop). But looking carefully we see some pillars camouflaged by the color of the facade emerging from the crushed grey-beige ashlar. The first larger one similar to a "pillar"
Giuliano, brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, has always been described as handsome, tall and austere. This last name was given to him because, when he walked, he had his chin raised and his gaze downwards. At first glance he could be considered haughty and confident in his beauty. 'Bel Julo', as he was renamed by the Florentines, was not at all austere, he was very kind and joking with everyone and aware of being handsome, the most handsome of the Casa Medici.
In the belltouwer of Santa Trinita Church there is an artworks made by the famous Donatello
The sculptor's mature work invites the viewer to walk around the statue in order to appreciate all the details, a new concept compared to the classic way of seeing the statue from the front. After the expulsion of the Medici family in 1494, the Florentine government decided to place this work in front of Palazzo Vecchio, but why all this? It was the image of a power that in a certain way tended to limit the true republican independence of Florence, therefore Giuditta represents the Florentine Republic which cuts off the head of Holofernes who embodies tyranny, a true model or "manifesto" which speaks of the political reality of the city.
not everyone knows that outside the Cathedral of Florence there were two small bells, one still visible. One was placed near the Porta dei Canonici on the southern side of the Duomo, a flowery Gothic style of the late '400 work by Lorenzo di Giovanni D'Ambrogio and Piero di Giovanni Tedesco. This bell was called "last" as the sound had to solicit the canons, whose accommodations are located in the square of the chapter to enter the chorus for the various liturgies.
In sacks or ceramic containers sometimes in aged inside for the conservation of these products, but to remedy all these problems, the products from China and India were shipped through an object obtained from the enormous "forests" always green that produce a light but very resistant material capable of enduring truly incredible stresses, it is bamboo.
Piazza Signoria, in front of the Fountain of Neptune, allegory of the Florentine power on the seas (it was to remember the grip of Pisa and the foundation of the order of the Knights of Santo Stefano). The Grand Duke Cosimo I decided as well as embellishing the square, to build a Fontana, given that there was nothing in the area (we must remember as well as for the water approval, the water also served for personal cleaning what not so much in vogue at the time, just think of the various diseases due to dirt in general).
