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Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure Review
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Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Museums / Galleries, San Marco
Fodor's Review:
Adjacent to this fascinating small museum is an opificio, or workshop, that Ferdinand I established in 1588 to train craftsmen in the art of working with precious and semiprecious stones and marble (pietre dure means hard stone). Four hundred-plus years later, the workshop is renowned as a center for the restoration of mosaics and inlays in semiprecious stones. The museum is highly informative and includes some magnificent antique examples of this highly specialized and beautiful craft.
INFO
- Address: Via degli Alfani 78, San Marco, Florence
- Phone: 055/26511
- Cost: EUR 2
- Open: Mon., Wed., and Fri.-Sat. 8:15-1:50, Thurs. 8:15-7
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