After a full day out in Florence, including a visit to the Uffizi Gallery, we found it easier to walk back to the hotel alongside the Arno River. Although it is possible to walk back the route we came from, as we retraced our steps the following day.
View of the Arno River from the Lungarno delle Grazie in Florence.
Palazzo Serristori is a large palace in Florence , located in Oltrarno , in the area of San Niccolò, between Piazza Demidoff , and the homonymous Lungarno Serristori.
The construction of the building dates back to 1520 – 1522 , when the bishop of Bitetto Lorenzo Serristori commissioned the residence in an area close to the fulling mills and mills of the Renai area. His nephew Averardo, ambassador for Cosimo I de ‘Medici , had it enlarged and improved, including the large garden towards the Arno. The scenic overlooking the river and the garden along the shore was reorganized in 1803 by the architect Giuseppe Manetti , commissioned by the senator Averardo, homonym of the previous one. Shortly afterwards, a spectacular view of the river was created through a suspended corridor that reached the bridge to the Graces , where there was a panoramic roof construction. The street was suggestively illuminated by oil lamps.
In 1822 the palace hosted the Demidoffs , who then settled in the nearby Palazzo Amici-Demidoff . Among the personalities housed, a plaque commemorates Giuseppe Bonaparte , King of Spain, Napoleon’s brother, who moved here with his family after the Restoration and died there on 28 July 1844 . The ground floor apartment put at its disposal and part of the first floor suffered serious damage during the flood of the river Arno of November 4, 1966. Here the so-called "mud angels" intervened for several days, young university students and non-university students Paolo Baldassarri from the Red Cross of Pistoia, who was to become, for thirty years, Headmaster of the largest school in the province of Pistoia.
The nineteenth-century demolitions irreversibly altered the original structure. In 1873 the opening of the Lungarno led to the demolition of the part of the building facing the river, the drastic reduction of the garden, its removal from the shore and the destruction of a suspended passage from the Palazzo to the Ponte alle Grazie . The renovation of the building was entrusted to the architect Mariano Falciani who erected the new façade on the Lungarno and the façade on Demidoff square . At that time also the reorganization of most of the internal environments dates back.
In 1884 , with the death of Alfredo Serristori, the palace passed to his nephew Umberto, who made the palace the meeting place of the Florentine aristocracy. Famous was the palace chef, Alfredo Benucci , who had studied in Paris and entered the ‘gotha’ of European high cuisine. The last great chef of the palace was the Mugello Gino Mariani who, for almost 60 years, together with his wife Giuseppina Maestripieri, worked in the twentieth century, before the Countess Hortensie De La Gandara Serristori (1871-1960) of Queen Elena – and then of her daughter, Contessa Sofia Bossi Pucci Serristori. He died in 2015 at the age of over 101 years, comforted and cared for in last by his beloved grandchildren.
San Miniato al Monte is seen above to the right.
rewrite this content to 50 words After a full day out in Florence, including a visit to the Uffizi Gallery, we found it easier to walk back to the hotel alongside the Arno River. Although it is possible to walk back the route we came from, as we retraced our steps the following day.
View of the Arno River from the Lungarno delle Grazie in Florence.
Palazzo Serristori is a large palace in Florence , located in Oltrarno , in the area of San Niccolò, between Piazza Demidoff , and the homonymous Lungarno Serristori.
The construction of the building dates back to 1520 – 1522 , when the bishop of Bitetto Lorenzo Serristori commissioned the residence in an area close to the fulling mills and mills of the Renai area. His nephew Averardo, ambassador for Cosimo I de ‘Medici , had it enlarged and improved, including the large garden towards the Arno. The scenic overlooking the river and the garden along the shore was reorganized in 1803 by the architect Giuseppe Manetti , commissioned by the senator Averardo, homonym of the previous one. Shortly afterwards, a spectacular view of the river was created through a suspended corridor that reached the bridge to the Graces , where there was a panoramic roof construction. The street was suggestively illuminated by oil lamps.
In 1822 the palace hosted the Demidoffs , who then settled in the nearby Palazzo Amici-Demidoff . Among the personalities housed, a plaque commemorates Giuseppe Bonaparte , King of Spain, Napoleon’s brother, who moved here with his family after the Restoration and died there on 28 July 1844 . The ground floor apartment put at its disposal and part of the first floor suffered serious damage during the flood of the river Arno of November 4, 1966. Here the so-called "mud angels" intervened for several days, young university students and non-university students Paolo Baldassarri from the Red Cross of Pistoia, who was to become, for thirty years, Headmaster of the largest school in the province of Pistoia.
The nineteenth-century demolitions irreversibly altered the original structure. In 1873 the opening of the Lungarno led to the demolition of the part of the building facing the river, the drastic reduction of the garden, its removal from the shore and the destruction of a suspended passage from the Palazzo to the Ponte alle Grazie . The renovation of the building was entrusted to the architect Mariano Falciani who erected the new façade on the Lungarno and the façade on Demidoff square . At that time also the reorganization of most of the internal environments dates back.
In 1884 , with the death of Alfredo Serristori, the palace passed to his nephew Umberto, who made the palace the meeting place of the Florentine aristocracy. Famous was the palace chef, Alfredo Benucci , who had studied in Paris and entered the ‘gotha’ of European high cuisine. The last great chef of the palace was the Mugello Gino Mariani who, for almost 60 years, together with his wife Giuseppina Maestripieri, worked in the twentieth century, before the Countess Hortensie De La Gandara Serristori (1871-1960) of Queen Elena – and then of her daughter, Contessa Sofia Bossi Pucci Serristori. He died in 2015 at the age of over 101 years, comforted and cared for in last by his beloved grandchildren.
San Miniato al Monte is seen above to the right.
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