Palazzo Medici Riccardi
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The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy.
The palace was designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de' Medici, of the great Medici family, and was built during 1444 and 1460. It was well known for its stone masonry that includes rustication and ashlar. The tripartite elevation was used here as a revelation of the Renaissance spirit of rationality, order, and classicism of human scale.
A tour is available that includes the room where Benozzo Gozzoli painted a fresco in 1461 of members of the Medici family, along with the emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Sigismund of Luxemburg, parading through Tuscany in the guise of the Three Wise Men.
There is a clean and reasonably priced toilet accessible to tourists from the courtyard.
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