By visiting Florence you will find ... Palazzo Vecchio, or Della Signoria

Palazzo Vecchio, or della Signoria, is located in Piazza della Signoria and was built in 1299  to host Priors of the Arts and Gonfalonier of Justice supreme governing body of the city. Cosimo I de 'Medici in 1540 he made ​​his home and in the Salone dei Cinquecento is a cycle of paintings recalls the triumph and the glory of Cosimo I and The Genius of Victory by Michelangelo. Continuing the route there are the private environments the family in which there is the Chapel of Eleonora da Toledo with frescoes sacred theme as "The angel announcing angel," "The Virgin of the Annunciation", "The passage of the Red Sea" and various frescoes. There is besides the Audience Hall and the Lily but the Hall of the Geographical Maps, with the big terrestrial globe encloses unique panels of its kind. These paintings represent all parts of the known world in the sixteenth century. The rooms of the palace encompass paintings ranging from the thirteenth century to the present day, collection of statues that date back in some cases to the I-II century BC, up to the nineteenth century. In addition you will find: the Hall of Caravaggio, Bartolomeo Manfredi, of Gherardo delle Notti, the Hall of Caravaggeschi and the Hall of Guido Reni. To be visited on, reservation, the Vasari Corridor a kilometer long and served as a liaison between the offices of the Medici and Palazzo Pitti, then the residence of the same family, today exposes a part of the paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Uffizi and that of the self-portraits of the artists. From here you can admire the view of the river and the interior of the Church of Santa Felicita, along one wall there is in fact a window that looks out over what was once the private box of the Medici family. The Tower of the Palace, attributed to Arnolfo di Cambio, was built between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. After the visit a walk in the Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria and see the Fountain of Neptune, the famous David by Michelangelo, the original of which is in 1503 at the Galleria dell'Accademia, and Hercules and Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli.