Reopen the Royal Apartments

After 5 years, reopen the Royal Apartments of Palazzo Pitti, where the Medici, Lorena and Savoy families lived.
Starting from January 21, 2025, the Royal Apartments of Palazzo Pitti can be visited, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00am to 05:00pm (time of the last visit), with guided tours every hour, without reservation, for a maximum number of 20 visitors. The meeting point for visitors will be in the Sala di Bona.

On the first floor of the palace 14 sumptuous rooms, which saw among its first residents, in the second half of the seventeenth century, the Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici, son of Grand Duke Cosimo III. The last to have lived there was Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy, who left the Palace to the Italian State, together with the Boboli Gardens, in 1919.

A long restoration work involved the vaults and floors and a careful campaign of cleaning, maintenance and recovery interventions was carried out on frescoes, stuccos, carvings, silk wallpapers, curtains, paintings, furniture and ornaments. The decorative style of the Apartments is "mixed" and reflects the eras and tastes of the personalities and dynasties who have lived there over the centuries.

In this wing of the Palace you can admire crystal chandeliers, frescoes, paintings, antique furniture, refined tapestries, so that you can immerse yourself in the life of the nobles of centuries ago. The visit includes: the Green Room, the Throne Room, the Celestial Room, the Chapel, the ‘Parrots’ Room, the Queen’s Room, the Queen’s Chamber, the Oval Cabinet, the Round Cabinet, the King’s Chamber, the King’s Study, the Red Room, the King’s Antechamber.

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