A first introduction to the last eight hundred years of Florentine history may be had from that panoramic balcony over the city that is Piazzale Michelangelo
every day 8.15-16.30 from november to February, 8.15-17.30 March and October after official summer time sets in, 8.15-18.30 in April, May, September and October, 8.15-19.30 in June, July and August
The Museum is incorporated in the vast complex of the basilica of San Lorenzo which, being the parish church of the Medici family, was particularly richly decorated.
