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The Medici palace of Seravezza
The Medici Palace in Seravezza was built by Cosimo I between 1561 and 1565 as an outpost in Versilia , which was a highly disputed territory between Florence, Lucca, Pisa and Genoa, especially due to the presence of marble quarries.
The villa is in fact a fortified palace that served as a holiday resort for the Medici but could be transformed if necessary into a defensive military structure, as can be seen from its solid structure. With the Kingdom of Italy the building became the seat of the Town Hall and remained so until 1967.
Today it houses the "Sirio Giannini" Municipal Library and the Historical Archive, where documents from 1570 are kept, while on the second floor there is the Museum of Work and Popular Traditions of Historical Versilia, where objects, tools and furnishings resulting from a complex research, collection and documentation work started in the early seventies.
Palazzo Mediceo, with its splendid field of grass in front and the Apuan Alps as a backdrop , frequently hosts important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
Next to the palace we find a chapel built at the time of the Grand Duchess Maria Cristina of Lorraine , who succeeded her husband Ferdinando I in 1609. The well in the center of the splendid internal courtyard dates back to the same period , surmounted by a trophy depicting a trout which according to popular tradition it is a copy of the one caught in 1603 by Maria Cristina in the Vezza stream.
Inside the palace it is also possible to visit the cellar, where a collection of ancient tiles for oil and grains is exhibited, dating back to the period between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The villa is in fact a fortified palace that served as a holiday resort for the Medici but could be transformed if necessary into a defensive military structure, as can be seen from its solid structure. With the Kingdom of Italy the building became the seat of the Town Hall and remained so until 1967.
Today it houses the "Sirio Giannini" Municipal Library and the Historical Archive, where documents from 1570 are kept, while on the second floor there is the Museum of Work and Popular Traditions of Historical Versilia, where objects, tools and furnishings resulting from a complex research, collection and documentation work started in the early seventies.
Palazzo Mediceo, with its splendid field of grass in front and the Apuan Alps as a backdrop , frequently hosts important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
Next to the palace we find a chapel built at the time of the Grand Duchess Maria Cristina of Lorraine , who succeeded her husband Ferdinando I in 1609. The well in the center of the splendid internal courtyard dates back to the same period , surmounted by a trophy depicting a trout which according to popular tradition it is a copy of the one caught in 1603 by Maria Cristina in the Vezza stream.
Inside the palace it is also possible to visit the cellar, where a collection of ancient tiles for oil and grains is exhibited, dating back to the period between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.