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The building

alazzo Spini Feroni is a Medieval palace, built by Geri Spini, a wealthy merchant and banker to Pope Boniface VIII, in 1289. Over the centuries it changed hands several times, from the Spinis to the Guasconis and then to the Bagnano and Feroni families.
In 1846 the palazzo was acquired by the City of Florence and from 1860 to 1870 when Florence was the capital of Italy, it was the seat of the City Council.
In 1881 it was sold to the Cassa di Risparmio and came under private ownership when Salvatore Ferragamo purchased it in 1938 as the headquarters of the company and his own workshop.

1. Palazzo Spini Feroni [...]

2. The Palazzo basement

The building was restored in 2000 and now proudly shows its masterpieces of seventeenth and eighteenth century Florentine art, including frescoes by Bernardino Poccetti in the chapel. The lower, or basement, level where the museum is located bears witness to the building’s Medieval originals. Over the centuries it had been used for many purposes and in the early twentieth century it was home to one of the city’s most famous antiques galleries.