Standing majestically behind the Basilica of San Lorenzo, the Medici Chapels are one of the five museums that make up the Bargello Museums, reorganized in 2015 into a single institution, along with the namesake Bargello Museum, Palazzo Davanzati, Casa Martelli and Orsanmichele, so although the Chapels belong to the San Lorenzo complex, it’s a different site bureaucratically speaking. They nonetheless remain forever linked in their origins as a celebration of the Medici family and the power they once held in the city of Florence: San Lorenzo was historically the parish church of the Medici, and so it’s no surprise that Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Lorraine chose to move the family members’ remains here in 1791.
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