Bargello National Museum

The Bargello Palace which houses at the present time the National Museum was in the medieval Florence one of the two important public buildings, together with Palazzo Vecchio. Example of the Florentine gothic architecture, it was built as a rectangular stone fortress in 1255 and later extended in the 300 to house the headquarters of the Captain of the People (Capitano del Popolo), high-ranking official of the government. The palace housed during the centuries various public offices of Florence and in 1574 became the seat of the Captain of Justice (police), known as Bargello, with the prisons.
Having become the National Museum in 1865, the Bargello is home to a prestigious collection of sculptures and decorative arts of the medieval and renaissance period. A mention has to be made at the collection of the renassaince sculpture that makes the museum one of the most important in the world.
It is arranged on three floors with a pictoresque internal courtyard.
The Room of Michelangelo or Room of the 500 sculpture hosts works by the artist himself, including the Bacco ebbro, the Apollo David, the Bruto, as well as works by other important artists such as the bronzes by Benvenuto Cellini made for the Loggia in the Signoria Square and the sculptures by Gianbologna.
The Room of Donatello which houses the celebrated David and other works by the artist, was in the 14th the "Room of the Council". Suggestive interior in Florentine gothic style.

Bargello Museum - Florence

Bargello National Museum

address of the museum:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Via del Proconsolo 4 - Florence
Tel. +39 055 2388-606