Palazzo Vecchio photo copyrighted by: Brian McMorrow The Palazzo Vecchio was so called to distinguish it from the "new" palace, the
Palazzo Pitti, to which the Medici family moved in the sixteenth century. Today the
Palazzo Vecchio is the seat of the municipal government and is only partially open
to the public. As we are going to see in some of the pics to come, Palazzo Vecchio
is connected with the Pitti Palace through the Vasari corridor which runs through
the Uffizi and over Ponte Vecchio to the other side of the river Arno. The corridor
was constructed by Vasari after the Medici family moved into the Pitti Palace.
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