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Florence disabled Strozzi Palace wheelchair accessible tours.

The Palace was begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued prominence and, perhaps more importantly a political statement of his own status.

A great number of other buildings were acquired during the 70s and demolished to provide enough space for the new construction.

Giuliano da Sangallo the Younger provided a wood model of the design.

Filippo Strozzi died in 1491, long before the construction's completion in 1538.

Duke Cosimo I de' Medici confiscated it in the same year, not returning it to the Strozzi family until thirty years later.

Florence disabled Strozzi Palace wheelchair accessible tours is a splendid example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, inspired by the Palazzo Medici, but with more harmonious proportions.

Unlike the Medici Palace, which was sited on a corner lot, and thus has only two sides, this building, surrounded on all for sides by streets, is a free-standing structure.

This introduced a problem new in Renaissance architecture, which, given the newly-felt need for internal symmetry of planning symmetry, was how to integrate the cross-axis.

The ground plan of Palazzo Strozzi is rigorously symmetrical on its two axes, with clearly-differentiated scvales of its principal rooms.

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