Apartment in Ponte Vecchio

Apartment located in Palazzo Capponi alle Rovinate, one of the most important Renaissance palaces in Florence. The apartment has two bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, a living area and a kitchen. The palace was built starting in 1406 for Niccolò da Uzzano, perhaps based on a design by Lorenzo di Bicci (Vasari), and finished around 1426. Recent studies also hypothesize the intervention of the young Filippo Brunelleschi, on the basis of consonances with Palazzo Busini-Bardi in via de 'Bardi (circa 1430), this work however also of unsafe attribution. After the death of Da Uzzano (1433) and his brother Agnolo (1435), the palace became the property of a branch of the Capponi family which was called "alle Rovinate" precisely because the palace was facing the Costa dei Magnoli, also called Poggio delle Ruined due to the frequent landslides of the hilly ridge. The facade on the Arno river was instead built by Giuseppe Poggi between 1872 and 1878, in neo-Renaissance style, when the road along the river was built.