Casa Buonarroti
Casa Buonarroti is on Via Ghibellina. From the Duomo (cathedral), take Via dell'Oriuolo, then turn right onto Via Giuseppe Verdi; Via Ghibellina is on the left.
Address: 70 Via Ghibellina.
Opening hours: every day except Tuesday, 10:00–16:30.
Admission: €8.00
The Buonarroti family home was built between 1546 and 1553. Michelangelo, the most illustrious member of the family, wanted to enlarge it and entrusted the work to a nephew, but nothing was finished at the artist's death.
It was given to the city of Florence in 1858 and now houses a museum devoted to Michelangelo's work.
It holds only a few rare works by the artist, but the rooms are pleasantly furnished and the walls are decorated with frescoes. The visit lets you take in the atmosphere of a small 17th-century palace.
