Pitti Palace and Boboli garden

The "Palazzo Pitti" - Pitti Palace - is a vast, mainly Renaissance palace in Florence. The construction of the building was commissioned in 1458 by the Florentine banker Luca Pitti to the architect Luca Fancelli, a student and pupil of Filippo Brunelleschi. The building was sold in 1549 by Buonaccorso Pitti, a descendant of Luca Pitti, to Eleonora di Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici of Tuscany - later the Grand Duke -.
While moving into the palace Cosimo had to enlarge the structure to fit his tastes, and Vasari was chosen to do this.
The palace was more than doubled by the addition of a new block along the rear side. Vasari also built an above-ground walkway from Cosimo's old palace, the Palazzo Vecchio, through the Uffizi, across the Ponte Vecchio to the Palazzo Pitti. This is known by the famous name of the "Corridoio Vasariano".

The land on the Boboli hill lying to the rear of the Palazzo was acquired in order to create a large formal park and gardens, today known as the Boboli Gardens.
The project was realised by Bartolomeo Ammannati.