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Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure 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 stones"). 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 late Renaissance examples of this highly specialized and beautiful craft.
- Address: Via degli Alfani 78, San Marco, Florence, 50121 | Map It
- Phone: 055/26511
- Cost: €2
- Hours: Mon.--Wed. and Fri. and Sat. 8:15--2, Thurs. 8:15--7.
- Location: San Lorenzo to the Accademia
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