The guide provides an insight into the history and beauty of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, one of the most important palaces in the city of Florence. To be right in the heart of the city centre, in the place that was, and is, the symbol of the Medici family and of the whole Renaissance, where great historic figures like Cosimo the Elder, Piero the Gouty and Lorenzo the Magnificent once lived, and which witnessed the presence and endeavours of the greatest artists of the Florentine Quattrocento, immediately conveys a rather special sensation. However, this palace is something more than that: not just an icon of times past, but an emblem of Florentine history stretching down from the Renaissance to the present day. Indeed, its architecture offers a chance to read a complex layering richly infused with the atmosphere conferred by time.