The famous Opificio ("workshop"), founded in 1588, has provided decorations in semi-precious stone ("pietre dure") for many important churches, palaces and museums in Florence and throughout the world -- most notably for the Cappella dei Principi in the Medici Chapels. A small museum displays examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as tools once used in the workshop.

Via degli Alfani,78
Temporarily closed.