Cavalieri Square

Once called Piazza delle Sette Vie (square of the Seven Streets), Piazza dei Cavalieri is the most important square after Piazza del Duomo.

Giorgio Vasari reshaped the original medieval framework to celebrate the power of the Medici Family and the order of the Knights of Santo Stefano.

Now the Palazzo dei Cavalieri, or della Carovana, has become the Scuola Normale Superiore, on the model of the École Normale in Paris, established in 1810 by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Clock Palace was born as an union of two house towers; one of them, called "della Muda", today is known as "Tower of Hunger" because the Count Ugolino della Gherardesca starved in there, as Dante told us in the Divine Comedy.

Worth pointing out the church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri, planned by Giorgio Vasari. Worth noticing are the flags and part of ships taken as trophies during the naval wars fought by the Knights of Santo Stefano.

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