Palazzo Antinori

Located in Antinori Square, in Via de' Tornabuoni, it is considered one of the finest Renaissance palaces in Florence. Probably built by Giuliano da Maiano for Boni in 1461, and subsequently sold in 1475, hosted the Martelli brothers and then, Niccolò Antinori, who made changes and improvements. Since then, the Antinori family, makers of the famous Tuscan wines, live in the Palace. The building, a cuboid, is inspired by the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, with more light and elegant architecture. The elegant courtyard has a portico on three sides, with round arches, vaults and stone columns with Composite capitals. The garden comes with some fairly simple flower beds reminiscent of a monastic cloister of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while on the back wall stands a nymph wall in eighteenth-century style, with spongy rocks and a statue of Venus in a niche.