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Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Shoemaker to the Stars
With its bold squarish Guelph crenellations, the Palazzo Spini-Feroni in Piazza Santa Trínita is one of the city's most distinctive medieval buildings. After one of the Arno's periodic floods in 1289, the wealthy banker and textile merchant Geri Speri purchased the land from the monks of Santa Trínita and asked Arnolfo di Cambio to design the biggest private palazzo in Florence.
In the 19th century it served as a hotel, and then during the city's tenure as capital of Italy, it was used as offices. Afterwards the capital moved to Rome, it was owned by the to the Cassa di Risparmio, which added shops on the ground floor. In 1938, Salvatore Ferragamo purchased the building and made it his workshop and headquarters.
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