Located right next to the San Lorenzo Church, the Sagrestia Nuova and the Capella dei Principi are very important in the history of the Medici family. The Sagrestia Nuova, was constructed in order to house the tombs of the Medici family, as wished by the first Medici Pope, Leon X, in 1521. Medici Chapels Reservations is your modern key to this heritage site.
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Medici Chapels Reservations is the best option for this museum. The project was assigned to Michelangelo who also had the opportunity to demonstrate his artistry in the magnificent sculptures of the Medici's tombs. The Chapel of Princes, planned in the beginning of the 1600's also was designed as a mortuary chapel. With its baroque style, it houses several tombs of the royal family, but it was never finished because of the family's loss of power in 1737. Michelangelo was a protagonist also for this place of Florence, which you can see with the Medici Chapels Reservation. Pope Leon X commissioned him the work of the Sagrestia Nuova. Michelangelo proved also in this occasion to be an artist and changed the old plant that the Sagrestia had by a drawings of the Brunelleschi.
