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22 - DAVANZATI PALACE

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Opening: From monday to Sunday, hours 8:15-13:50

Via Red Door, 13

To according to plan the access it is organized to groups, upon request and with appointment, to hours 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 of the mattino in the days of regulating opening of the museum.
Until to completion of the preparation jobs the visits they could not always be guaranteed. (from museale Pole Fiorentino). I add a comment, cretete that riusciranno to prepare it in next the five years?

Closing: The museum is closed in second and the quarter Sunday of the month and in the first one, third party, fifth monday of the month, New Year's Day, 1° May, Been born them.

  jaPalazzo Davanzati, parrots room

We begin with one curiosity, the Madornale.

This was the room larger than a palace of a well-off family where in kind soggiornava the landlady of house with to that today we could call helping. The name derives exactly from "madonna", from the mea Latin "dominates", "mine mrs.. Davanzati Palace, CrackedIn segiuto and with passing of the time, Madonna, with M the capital letter becomes name of Maria the mother of Jesus but it is from the dimension of the hall of the madornale that today is associated the adjective to a "large error" or to a "enormous thing and in mistaken kind. "I have made an error madornale", "is I dazzle madornale", just for via of the dimensions of that hall that however had literally spropositate dimensions. In the course of the time also it was dedicated to the acceptance of the hosts and the families "friends" because the only one in the house, in a position to receiving sure a quantitative one of persons.

The Palace or Palace (of i) Davanzati, came constructed around to the half of XIV the centuryPalazzo Davanzati, before the roof works but from an other family, that one of the Davizzi merchants of the corporation of the "Calimala". In 1516 property of the Bartolini family still passed of hand and divenne and in the same century, to the Davanzati family that brought some modifications to the palace and placed the family coat of arms on the facade. The Davanzati the great terrace to loggia modified the last one slowlyPalazzo Davanzati, after the roof works removing the original merlatura affixing to you called Roof-terrace.The Palace remained property of the Davanzati family until 1838 when, with the suicide of Carl, the male branch of the family was extinguished and the atmospheres were uniforms in quarters and endured several alterations. The more important alteration fortunately was not involved the palace. In 1904 it was one of those rooms that escaped to the demolitions of Florence Understood them and came acquired from the Elia antiquarian Vixens that after to have restored it following the original plan, house of ancient Florence furnished it with the intention to show to all one. In 1916 but the entire arredativo equipment was sold by auction to New York and the vixens in 1920 the riarreḍ newly. Of other part Mr. Volpi was a merchant and of new in 1924 rivendette all the furnishing to two Siblings, Vitale and original Leopoldo Benqujat of Alexandria of Egypt. It is not ended. In 1934 the third party furnishings of new was dispersed in a public auction. In 1951 the Italian State took part that acquiring the piece of real estate the yields available to the public in 1956.