The Palatine Gallery is the last, but the most beautiful of the princely picture-galleries. This gallery includes extraordinary masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries.

The collection includes the work of Italian, Flemish, French and English artists, including Raffaello (with 11 famous works), the Florentine School (Fra' Bartolomeo, Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Guercino, Maratta. The quality and particular arrangement of the works makes this collection unique.

Most of the gallery looks as it did at the beginning of the 19th century. All the walls are totally covered with paintings, and the decoration is completed with golden stuccos.

Each of the rooms are furnished with beautiful consoles with prestigious marble layers or Florentine mosaic in hard stones. We can find the Monumental Apartments in the right-hand wing of the piano nobile, which have been arranged with some of their original 17th century furnishings but are, above all, a reminder of Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy's short sojourn (see the Throne Room) when Florence was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (1865-71).

The visit to the museums and the apartments (about 140 rooms) also means that it is possible to admire the frescoes inside the various rooms, most of them carried out between 1608 and 1706 by artists like Bernardino Poccetti, Alessandro Allori, Volterrano, Giovanni da San Giovanni