Building sights in Florence
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Palazzo Strozzi
To outshine their Medici rivals, the Strozzi – a super-rich banking family – hired Giugliano de Sangallo to design their new city home in the 1480s. He constructed a massive but elegant fortress of rusticated stone that today hosts good temporary art exhibitions. The cafe on its colonnaded courtyard provides shelter from sun, rain and foot traffic – no ticket required.
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Arte della Lana
The medieval headquarters of the Wool Guild is made up of a tower-house, echoing that very Florentine preoccupation with self-defence that clearly affected the guilds almost as much as it did feuding families. An eagle clutching a bundle, the guild's symbol, is embossed in stone in several places on the wall on Via Calimaruzza.
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Giardini d'Azeglio
A rare urban haven, this garden in the shady Piazza d'Azeglio has swings, slides and an old-fashioned merry-go-round. In the late afternoon it fills up with excited children and their wound-up guardians.
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