Square 48
- 1 - Mercato Vecchio
- 2 - Loggia del Pesce
- 3 - Ghetto (*)
- 4 - Mercato Nuovo
- 5 - Arte della Lana
- 6 - Or S. Michele
- 7 - S. Andrea Par.
- 8 - S. Bartolommeo Par.
- 9 - S. Carlo dei Lombardi
- 10 - S. Cecilia Par.
- 11 - S. Maria Nipotecosa Par.
- 12 - S. Miniato tra le Torri Par.
- 13 - S. Piero Buonconsiglio Par.
- 14 - S. Tommaso Par.
The central market square and the building that housed butchers and poulterers among others.
Fish marked moved to this new loggia by Vasari in 1565 from the old Mercato del Pesce at the north end of Ponte Vecchio. Vasari's loggia was dismantled in the 1870s and stored, then resurrected in Pza dei Ciompi after this was built in the 1930s (sq. 30).
Space, including former houses of prostitution earlier owned by the Medici and others, enclosed by Francesco I to house the Jews in 1570. Dismantled in the 1880s. [390 I 1632] B225
Market building built by G. B. Tasso for Cosimo I 1547-51. Limb. 461
Guild hall of the wool guild, passageway to Or S. Michele added by Buontalenti 1569. Limb. 369 V. Calimara.
Anc. Church/Oratory once site of a convent of nuns; enclosed a venerated image of the Virgin Mary. Upper story once used for grain storage made into the notarial archive 1569. B120 Paatz IV:480 V. Calzaiuoli 25.
Anc. Par. Ch. B3 Paatz I:46 V. Calimara No longer exists.
Anc. Par. Ch. B16 Paatz I: 333. Secularized 1769 V. Calzaiuoli No longer exists.
14th cent. church of S. Michele Vecchio. Came under control of the Compagnia dei Lombardi in 1616. Also known as S. Carlo Borromeo. B106 Paatz I:411 V. Calzaiuoli 34.
Anc. Par. Ch. B45 Paatz I:442. Secularized 1783 Pza S. Cecilia No longer exists.
12th cent. Par. B104 Ch. Paatz III:655. Secularized 1768 V. Calzaiuoli No longer exists.
And. Par. Ch. B102 Paatz IV:297. Secularized 1785 V. Sassetta No longer exists.
12th cent. Par. Ch. B129 Paatz IV:613. Secularized 1785 Mercato Vecchio No longer exists.
12th cent. Par. Ch. The initial parish of the Medici. B188 Paatz V:241. Secularized 1779 Mercato Vecchio No longer exists.
Streets, Parishes, Notes:
"Quarters: S. Maria Novella, S. Giovanni, S. Croce. Parishes: S. Andrea, S. Bartolommeo, S. Biagio, S. Cecilia, Duomo, S. Maria degli Ughi, S. Maria Nipotecosa, S. Miniato tra le Torri, S. Piero Buonconsiglio, S. Romolo, S. Tommaso, Streets: Mercato Vecchio, V. Calimara, V Calimaruzza, V Calzaiuoli {p}, V del Corso {p} V degli Speziali Grossi. (The street names are only partly listed.) Square 48 had many households, many shops, some patricians, some households with servants, many households w/o surnames, and some households headed by widows. This square was much changed by urban redevelopment in the 1880s and the building of what became Pza della Repubblica. At the right in the Mercato Vecchio is the surviving column surmounted by the Donatello (now replica of G.B. Foggini copy from 1721) statue of Abundance. "
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