Description
The Royal Apartments are the rulers' private rooms on the second floor of Palazzo Pitti in Florence: first the Medici's, then those of the House of Lorraine and the Savoys. After the grand halls of the Palatine Gallery, this is where you see how life was really lived in the palace.
The walls are lined with green, crimson, sky-blue or yellow silk, and the bedrooms have canopy beds, which appear in no other room of the palace. In the Throne Room stands the Savoys' gilded throne; in the Parrot Room the birds are woven into the silk.
Among the paintings, Caravaggio's Portrait of Fra' Marcantonio Martelli stands out. What you see today is mostly the look Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy gave it; they lived here from 1865, in the years when Florence was Italy's capital.
In the Sala Bianca, all stucco, Italian high fashion was born on July 22, 1952, with a show by nine fashion houses covered by a very young Oriana Fallaci.
The walls are lined with green, crimson, sky-blue or yellow silk, and the bedrooms have canopy beds, which appear in no other room of the palace. In the Throne Room stands the Savoys' gilded throne; in the Parrot Room the birds are woven into the silk.
Among the paintings, Caravaggio's Portrait of Fra' Marcantonio Martelli stands out. What you see today is mostly the look Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy gave it; they lived here from 1865, in the years when Florence was Italy's capital.
In the Sala Bianca, all stucco, Italian high fashion was born on July 22, 1952, with a show by nine fashion houses covered by a very young Oriana Fallaci.