Piazza della Signoria.

Piazza della Signoria.
The monumental heart of Florence
(and Tuscany’s most famous square)
is an open-air museum of sculpture,
dominated by Michelangelo’s David
(a copy of the original, which used
to stand here). The powerful mass
of the Palazzo Vecchio dominates
one side of the square; another is
defined by the 14th-century Loggia
dei Lanzi, filled with ancient and
Renaissance statues (the most celebrated
being Bevenuto Cellini’s
Perseus holding aloft the severed
head of Medusa). Also check out
Giambologna’s Rape of the Sabines,
which marks the point (1584) when
Tuscan tastes abandoned drama in
favor of melodrama.