Free admission to the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens for the anniversary of Cosimo I's coronation as grand duke

OnTuesday, August 27, 2019, on the occasion of the anniversary of the day of the birth of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on August 27, 1569, and Cosimo I’s coronation as Grand Duke, the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens will have free admission.

Throughout the day, the public will therefore be able to visit the Palatine Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Imperial and Royal apartments, the Museum of Fashion and Costume, and the Grand Dukes’ Treasure (which houses works of gold, silver, crystal, ivory and semi-precious stones) free of charge.

Also on the second floor of Palazzo Pitti, in the rooms of the Museum of Fashion and Costume, is the ongoing exhibition Short Novel of Men’s Fashion, organized in collaboration with Pitti Immagine, which showcases men’s fashion of the past 30 years. On the second floor of the grand ducal residence are the two exhibitions celebrating instead Cosimo I de’ Medici on the 500th anniversary of his birth: A Woven Biography. The 17th-century tapestries in honor of Cosimo I and The First Statue for Boboli. The Restored Villano.

Free admission is also provided to the Porcelain Museum. In the Boboli Gardens you can admire the monumental sculptures of contemporary British artist Tony Cragg with the exhibition Tony Cragg in Boboli. And again, in the Boboli Lemon House is the exhibition Building a Masterpiece: The Trajan Column , which allows visitors to retrace the journey of the colossal marble blocks from the quarries of Luni to the capital, up the Tiber River.

"Cosimo I Grand Duke of Tuscany is a fundamental figure in European history, as well as in the development of the territory and Florence. Palazzo Pitti, which he purchased in 1550, before obtaining the grand ducal crown, became not only his and his wife Eleanor of Toledo’s new residence, but also the symbol of the Medici’s consolidated power over Tuscany. A visit to the Boboli Gardens complements that to the Pitti Palace, of which it is an integral part: in its magnificence, one still fully grasps the spirit of court life, between the art and luxury of the palace and the wonders of one of the most beautiful monumental parks in the world," commented the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt.

Pictured is Cosimo I taking possession of the city of Siena.

Free admission to the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens for the anniversary of Cosimo I's coronation as grand duke

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