The most-visited part of the Pitti Palace is the Palatine Gallery, which consists of some grand ducal reception rooms and a lot of rooms full of paintings from the grand ducal collections. The rooms have some pretty entertaining decoration themselves, with many ceilings adorned with mythological scenes painted in the 19th century “naked hero with conveniently placed sword because we don’t look at genitals, no no no” style. As for the paintings, there are Raphaels and Botticellis and Titians galore, but since everything is hung in multiple tiers up the brocaded walls, with bad lighting, I usually end up getting neck cramp and thinking “eff this, I’m just going back to the Uffizi.”
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