Palazzo dei Cartelloni

Admission

exterior only

as of 5 Nov

Getting there

STAZIONE SCALETTE · bus 11, 12, 17, 18, 23, 6, C2, C4 · 350 mSTAZIONE PIAZZA ADUA · bus 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23, 6 · 350 mFirenze Smn · rail (Fi) Prato - Bologna, Firenze - Arezzo - Chiusi (Rm), Firenze - Borgo Sl - Faenza, Firenze - Borgo Sl Via Pontassieve, Firenze - Empoli - Siena, Firenze - Pisa - Livorno, Firenze - Pistoia - Lucca - Viareggio · 410 m

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Palazzo dei Cartelloni, also known as Palazzo Viviani, is a Baroque-style palace in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. This building displays many unusual architectural elements, the most evident being the unusually big epigraphs written in Latin. The owner of the building, the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, had them applied on the main façade in 1693, in order to celebrate and glorify the life and many discoveries of his mentor, Galileo Galilei. It is after these inscriptions that the building takes its name. The main architecture of the building was created by Giovanni Battista Nelli, while the bust of Galileo that still stands over the main entrance was sculpted by Giovanni Battista Foggini, and is actually a copy of the original made by Giovanni Caccini in 1610.

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