Guided Tour of Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens
Meet your Italian tour guide in front of Palazzo Pitti in Piazza Pitti.
Pitti Palace was the residence of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and was inhabited by the Medici, the Lorraine, and the Savoy families. Inside, it houses a museum complex consisting of the Palatine Gallery, an art gallery with masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, and others, along with eighteenth-century paintings, the beautiful monumental royal apartments, the Winter Quarter, and the Prince of Naples' Quarter, which is not ordinarily open to tourists. The complex also includes the Modern Art Gallery, with works by the Macchiaioli, and other specialised museums.
The museum circuit of the Boboli Gardens includes the Silver Museum, the Costume Gallery, the largest Italian museum dedicated to fashion, the Porcelain Museum, and the Bardini Garden, which was the sixth most visited site by Italians. The gardens behind Palazzo Pitti, once the residence of the Medici and later the Lorraine and Savoy families, were built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their first Renaissance-style layout, visible in the area closest to the building, was expanded over the years with ponds, fountains, temples, and caves.
