Strozzi Palace   

The first stone of the Palace was laid in 1489 at the order of Filippo Strozzi, who was considered "the richest man in the world" and a friend of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

And so it happened that thanks to the spending of hundreds of thousands of florins (money of the time) and to the unusual use of stones that cover the whole facade of this elegant building, a masterpiece of  the 15th century Florentine architecture was created.

View of the interior court.

Strozzi died in 1491, just two years after the first stone was laid. It was twenty-five years later, in 1504, which the Strozzi family finally moved into the palace. In 1913 the palace was bequeathed to the State.sculptures, among them works by Ghirlandaio, Fillippino Lippi and Orcagna.