This is the magnificent square that the most illustrious Duke Cosimo wanted for the Order. It was designed by the architect Giorgio Vasari...

Today the square is like a theatre wing on the lazy unrolling of college life. It has by now lost its central position both politically and in the geography of the city...

This is its name because seven streets meet here, and this is the heart of our city. Here justice is administered by the Capitano del Popolo, here the Elder and the Priors meet in council to properly govern our Republic...

Piazza dei Cavelieri, the headquarters of the glorious Order of the Cavalieri di Santo Stefano. Glorious, that is, until last century, since the Granduca Gian Gastone...