Florence, Italy: Medici Sights - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

[@rn497]

Thank you for bringing in the awe to the Florentine art. To get a peek into Europe through your videos is a stress buster end of the day.

[@janarriola7444]

Wanna go to Florence. Big fan of the Medici Family.

[@dianacada5588]

Definitely want to walk around these streets one day.

[@eliagranchi1059]

proud of being born and to be living in one of the most beautiful cities of the world!

[@Bilal-pz7sy]

You are from Florence 😍!?

[@eliagranchi1059]

@@Bilal-pz7sy yessss

[@taschengramitt]

@@eliagranchi1059 stop the cap

[@avxlk]

@@taschengramitt she’s not capping/lying her last name looks kinda Italian .

[@karsoncolt1866]

you all prolly dont care at all but does any of you know of a way to get back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot my account password. I love any tricks you can offer me.

[@DorianYarg]

I feel so lucky and proud for living in such a beatiful city.

[@chintoousb]

My dream is to visit your city and walk in every alleyway roads everywhere and enjoy and inspire by its beauty u r lucky indeed

[@lindaajide2115]

Who’s here after watching the series on Netflix lol 😆

[@88lakeshore]

such a great show!

[@justanobserver8283]

Yes!

[@sonia_shah]

Yesss my boyfriend had been watching it ...he’s on the 3rd season in 4 days 😂

[@ace3215]

I'm here for school :(

[@hinawaseem8441]

Yes I am love the Medici series... loved Florance

[@IlarioSchanzer]

Beautiful ... I L♥VE Florence !!!!!

[@sicilianmama1000]

Could watch for hours

[@adamfrisk956]

If anyone's wondering the music on 1:50 is called Saltarello

[@najiessmaeel]

Thanks!

[@stenbak88]

Rick just has a great voice for history documentaries, it is soothing yet excited to be talking about such great beauty and priceless historic sites

[@jasontrott4158]

i love everything you do, i am heading to Florence soon and cannot wait to see this in real life.

[@gianlucavisca3419]

Powerhouse of commerce, trading, banking and culture..all that made Florence the cradle of Renassaince. A small city with a very limited population created all that. It was a myracle but also a mistery...!!!!

[@eduardojalvarez4076]

I would exchange the whole America just for Italy!!! What a beautiful country

[@pixelwaz]

Italy thrived when America was not even discovered

[@MsWarriordiva]

I am hoping to move there in the next couple of years. America has worn me out & is so depressing.

[@messiazimy2863]

Don’t forget that Ezio saved Lorenzo de Medici and killed Francesco de Pazzi

[@Soloohara]

You may have the universe! If i may have Italy🇮🇹😍❤️!!!! - Verdi

[@grazianairno5941]

The italy is the world my brother 🇮🇹❤

[@pixelwaz]

My dream is to visit Florence once in life

[@victoriaperkovic4938]

The most arty city in the world. Love to be there again

[@MsWarriordiva]

Love Florence!!! ❤️

[@davidbaker5107]

San Lorenzo will be a focus of our next visit - along with Palazzo Vecchio and the Galleries and Gardens of Palazzo Pitti. Thank you Rick.

[@Kevin_Finch]

Do you mean the Bardini Gardens?

[@lavender5765]

Love italy 🇮🇹 💚🇮🇶 from Iraq

[@yogi2436]

beautiful garden 1:35

[@caryw2053]

4:37 Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici was not Lorentzo II (Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici)'s brother, but rather his uncle.

[@pouya81es]

love this city and love the medici

[@sylviaflores7460]

I love this for my school class\

[@catrionagalster2027]

I think you do some disservice to the Medici family by representing them as egotistical. Their fostering of the arts spanned generations of very learned Medici men and women, and much of it was funded from personal money, for the enjoyment of all Florence, not just the wealthy. And as for the paintings which show Medici family members in place of the biblical figures, there is much evidence that painters chose to do this as a way to show the great esteem in which this family was held by contemporary Florence

[@fareedahmad5029]

Good job , Sir

[@LifeSolver]

Nice work steve

[@cjoutright9255]

The Medici deserved to be kings of all Italy, in my opinion

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I wonder if there are any surviving descendants of the Medici family.

[@naystroke]

Yeah, there is, but he seems to be the last one, he has no children.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@@naystroke just like the Kennedys!

[@yashgarg6832]

The male line of succession is not there anymore.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@@yashgarg6832 can't the females succeed?

[@yashgarg6832]

They did. In 1713 Cosimo III altered the law to let his daughter Anna Maria Luisa succeed his son Gian. Unfortunately, she died without any heir as well. For what happened next, I am not an expert.

[@richardlanglois5183]

Very informative Rick.

[@johnsain]

Which Palace is this?

[@noah-oj6rh]

History class where you at

[@mangobtw8624]

whats up my guy

[@noah-oj6rh]

@@mangobtw8624 whats up

[@ritabiro5105]

Never forget this capolavoroes

[@beatrixb.4116]

Looking through the comments to see if someone wrote about Assassins creed 2 and Brotherhood.

[@shoukatalilashari4255]

Sir, assalam alekum, how are you, sir? Hair is fine, health is fine. Sir, I watch your videos with great interest and I like your videos very much. I belong to Pakistan City.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 417 delft = the Dutch pottery.

[@skilmer]

super lit

[@PeterPaul175]

Thankfully Rick Steves pronounces Medici properly.

[@paytonlee9836]

Guelliano did not die from "passage of time" tho, as he had been stabbed 18 times to death by pazzi conspirators

[@taschengramitt]

anyone here for a history assignment?

[@kayazareba6673]

Who's here cuz their school was watching this

[@SuperGreatcritic]

Lorenzo made everything for Florence and it’s ppl but then same ppl destroyed a huge amount of art and bite the hand that feed them

[@lonewolf3374]

Just cause 3

[@kaeiou5423]

0:49 - 0:56

[@kaeiou5423]

1:54 - 2:02

[@alexandervanwyk7669]

It is obvious that these decor has never been finished. All those "pockets" were meant for statues and it looks like it would have had lots of decorative painting. Someone somewhere ran out of time, money or life itself. Such a pitty.

[@govhater4632]

Our Sculpture ART is being RIPPED down..

[@adaharvey2000]

tf is your pfp 🤨

[@thebeardedseeker5633]

this was too short.

[@nicoleadams9643]

The Medici's didn't 'rule' Florence, please give better information.

[@xwiirastusx]

True, it would be more appropriate to say they owned it. Later on, though, they would actually rule it as the dukes of Tuscany.

[@ishmaelm1932]

Technically they were de facto rulers until a medici pope established a medici monarchy

[@sdeitym]

Why this family didn’t used their money invest in military?

[@2000Betelgeuse]

The narrator sounds like an envious person, constantly focusing on the Medici's ego...sorry but that you don't have the talent or the money to ever come close to them

[@luceean]

2nd

[@fatimagillani3274]

1st

[@invinoveritas6859]

I heard the last of the Medici was a homosexual.........

[@someonesceptic8981]

3rd

[@hadrian9652]

People continue idealising Florence and Renaissance and families.Loving Medici family?Maybe people should read about those butchers and then talk about it.Modern Florence is ,by the way,one of the most overrated cities in the world,impossible to live and work in.

[@pixelwaz]

U got no brain in arts

[@MrBird-bk7lb]

Hi Pazzi!