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Casino mediceo di San Marco
- When to go
- Check opening hours before you go
Getting there
- Getting there
- SAN MARCO PIAZZA · bus 14, 17, 18, 23, 31, 32, 6, 60, C1 · 200 mXXVII APRILE SANTA REPARATA · bus 14, 17, 18, 23, 31, 32, 6, 60 · 290 mXXVII APRILE SAN ZANOBI · bus 14, 17, 18, 23, 31, 32, 6, 60 · 310 m
About
The Casino Mediceo di San Marco is a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style palace located on Via Cavour number 57 and via San Gallo in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. At a palace at the site, Lorenzo di Medici had run a school and academy of arts (the Accademia degli Orti Medicei), where the likes of Pico della Mirandola, Lorenzo de Credi, Francesco Granacci, and Michelangelo frequented. When Piero de Medici was exiled in 1494, the villa was sacked. In 1568–1574, Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, commissioned Bernardo Buontalenti to reconstruct the palace as a casino, a city villa, as it was sited at the Gardens of San Marco. Gherardo Silvani may also have played a role in the design. The palace was planned as a laboratory for scientific experimentation. In 1588 it became the seat of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
- Heritage status
- vincolo