This series has enjoyed international success, first in Italy and now, just a few weeks before the final episode, in America, Canada, Great Britain and India. We’re talking about the television series The Medici (Medici: Masters of Florence), created by Frank Spotnitz, the award-winning writer and producer, and Nicholas Meyer. And at the same time we’re also talking about the actual Medici family, about their palaces and priceless art collections, which the guests of Hotel Savoy can rediscover by following an original itinerary that will take them both inside and outside Florence.
As a tribute to the forefather of the lineage, and to the timeless appeal of Dustin Hoffman who has played him, the itinerary sets off from the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the Sagrestia Vecchia, built in 1420 by Filippo Brunelleschi for Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici. A century later, Michelangelo would design the Nuova Sagrestia and build the magnificent Cappella Medici, dedicated to Lorenzo, the Duke of Urbino, and to Giuliano, Duke of Nemours.