Palazzo Acciaiuoli
Palazzo Acciaiuoli | |
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Toscana, Italy | |
Address | 9, via Borgo Santi Apostoli |
Coordinates | 43°46′09″N 11°15′12″E / 43.769175°N 11.253308°E |
Current tenants | hotel |
Construction started | 1280 |
Renovated | 1341 |
Palazzo Acciaiuoli, also known as Palazzo Usimbardi'[1] or Usimbardi-Acciaiuoli, is located in Borgo Santi Apostoli in the historical centre of Florence. It incorporates the older Torre degli Acciaiuoli, formerly dei Buondelmonti, located at the corner of Chiasso delle Misure. Today it houses a hotel.
The tower
Built by the
In 1864 and 1920, the tower underwent restoration works (those of the second decade of the twentieth century directed by architect Ugo Giusti) that privileged the medieval components and determined its current appearance.
The tower is among the tallest in Florence: narrow and covered by the typical stone filaretto, it has a door surmounted by a monolithic architrave on two moulded corbels. Above it opens a ring (architecture) with a pointed arch.
The palace
Also known as the Grand Siniscalco Palace from the name of its founder, it is built of stone with large, regular mouldings on the ground floor and filaretto stone on the upper floors. It has the appearance of a fortress, rather austere, and is reminiscent of the
The façade also bears the coat of arms of the
There also rests a plaque from 1930 with a part in Italian commemorating the Acciaiuoli family and one in Latin describing the location of the palazzo, as written in the Florentine Archive of the «Charterhouse Papers».
All’interno corre una scala in legno alla quale si accede dal palazzo. Sulla sommità si trovano due terrazze panoramiche a livelli diversi.
Alla morte di Niccolò il palazzo passò quindi ai monaci della Certosa, che lo possedettero fino alla soppressione degli ordini monastici all’inizio dell’Ottocento.[2] Venne messo in vendita e passò in diverse mani, tra le quali i Burresi Pettini furono gli ultimi, che ancora lo posseggono e lo usano in parte per un’attività alberghiera.
Details
- The Acciaiuoli family had another large palace in this area, also on borgo Santi Apostoli but on the opposite side, so as to have a façade also on the Arno, in particular on the Lungarno degli Acciaiuoli that still takes its name from it. This building, like many others, was destroyed by the retreating Germans in the summer of 1944, who undermined the access areas to the Ponte Vecchio.
Other images
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The Acciaiuoli Tower
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The portal
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The Certosa plaque
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Stemma of the Acciaiuoli
Notes
- ^ Aa.Vv., Firenze e provincia, Guida d’Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Volume 12, p. 255, Touring Editore, Milan 1993
- ^ a b c "Repertorio delle Architetture Civili di Firenze - Palazzo Acciaiuoli (Acciaioli)". www.palazzospinelli.org. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
Sources
Italian sources
- Giampaolo Trotta, Gli antichi chiassi tra Ponte Vecchio e Santa Trinita, Messaggerie Toscane, Firenze 1992.
- Marcello Vannucci, Splendidi palazzi di Firenze, Le Lettere, Firenze 1995.
- Lara Mercanti, Giovanni Straffi, Le torri di Firenze e del suo territorio, Alinea, Firenze 2003
- Fortunato Grimaldi, Le "case-torri" di Firenze, Edizioni Tassinari, Firenze 2005.
External links
- Media related to Palazzo Acciaiuoli at Wikimedia Commons
- Palazzo Acciaiuoli (Acciaioli)
- L'Hotel presente nel palazzo