At the Pitti Palace in Florence, the sumptuous rooms of the Royal Apartments are once again accessible to the public after a five-year closure. Fourteen rooms on the second floor of the palace in which, for 300 years, the lords of three different dynasties of rulers - the Medici, Lorraine and Savoy - lived. Among the first residents of this wing of the palace was, in the second half of the 17th century, Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici, son of Grand Duke Cosimo III; the last, Victor Emmanuel III of Savoy, left it to the state, along with the Boboli Gardens behind, in 1919. Not open to visitors as of 2020, the Royal Apartments have recently undergone a complex general operation of restoration and conservation that a large multidisciplinary team of specialists took care of and that involved a wide variety of interventions in all the rooms. This meticulous work involved everything from the vaults to the floors, where, in particular, carpets and rugs were removed, leaving the perfectly preserved parquet floors exposed. A thorough campaign of cleaning, maintenance and restoration work was also carried out on frescoes, stuccoes, carvings, silk wall hangings, curtains, paintings, furniture and knick-knacks.