The Palazzo Medici Riccardi is a palace of the Medici family, built by the architect Michelozzo di Bartolomeo by order of Cosimo the Elder in 1444. This famous Florence landmark is one block from Piazza Duomo. The Medici Riccardi Palace is the first example of the secular buildings of Florence in the early Renaissance. The regular quadrangular building contains in the depth of its walls the same regular courtyard, surrounded by arcades, in which lemon trees are planted. Many other buildings were later built on the model of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, and its shape eventually became common among Renaissance palaces in Italy.→
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