Upon seeing the palace for the first time it’d made sense if you asked yourselves: “Why in the world this palace, located further away from the city center where the power was concentrated, is so big and impressive?” Believe it or not, but it has - once again - something to do with the Medici family. According to the legend, Lucca Pitti, the then-head of yet another banking family, wanted the windows of his new palace to be bigger than the main entryway of the Medici palace and that the courtyard could have contained the entire Strozzi Palace inside. Well, if this is true it only shows how people have, essentially, always been the same, driven by the same motives, right?

There’s one more curious fact to the Palazzo Pitti though: il Corridoio Vasariano. This once-secret passage is connecting the Pitti Palace to the Uffizi Gallery - pretty impressive, isn’t it? Built in 1565 by Georgia Vasari in only five months, this 760m-ling passage runs above the city of Florence and river Arno, passing through the other palaces on its way. It was commissioned by Lorenzo the Magnificent’s descendant, Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici to celebrate the wedding of his son Frances and allow him and his wife to move safely between their residence in Palazzo Pitti and Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of the city government.