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The most important civic palace of Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, is home to magnificent treasures, including the Hall of Geographical Maps, or Sala delle Carte Geografiche, located on the second floor of the building, a place where Cosimo I used to keep all the goods of the family. A room designed by the incomparable Giorgio Vasari containing 54 hand-painted Renaissance maps by Egnazio Danti and Stefano Buonsignori, 237 portraits of Renaissance luminaries, and an enormous terrestrial globe (Mapa Mundi) that, in Danti's original design, began spinning at the slightest touch.
