Museo Salvatore Ferragamo

This historic, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition – Donatello, The Renaissance – sets out to reconstruct the outstanding career of one of the most important and influential masters of Italian art of any age. The exhibition is designed to celebrate Donatello in dialogue with institutions of Florence and the whole of Italy and juxtaposing his work with masterpieces by other Italian Renaissance masters such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, and Michelangelo. The exhibition showcases over 100 works of art including sculptures, paintings, and drawings with unique loans, some of which have never been granted before now, from almost sixty of the world's leading museums and institutions/

The first fashion show in Italy took place in Florence, Villa Torrigiani, 12 February 1951 and the second in the Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti. The tour will start from the Ferragamo Museum. They documented the entirety of Salvatore Ferragamo activities, since his return from the US to Italy in 1927 until his death and hear plenty interesting stories about this fashion house. Very important to visit next is the Palazzo Pitti with magnificent Costume Gallery. There, approximately six thousand pieces, ancient and modern clothes, accessories and theater costumes. Considered the only museum of the history of fashion in Italy and one of the most important one. Also a stop by Museo degli Argenti - Silver Museum, with the jewelry collections of Medici and Lorraine. The most important there to see is the "Scaramazza Pearl" of Anna Maria Luisa, the last of the Medici dynasty. The visit will end with an introduction to the Boboli Gardens, the famous Italian garden.