Arriving in front of the Basilica you immediately notice the facade left rough, for which in the past were created several models, including the famous one by Michelangelo kept in the museum of Casa Buonarroti. The basilica is the oldest Florentine cathedral (393 A.D.), but what we admire is the almost complete reconstruction made in the fifteenth century by the Medici family, who celebrated their weddings, baptisms and funerals here, up to that of their last descendant, Anna Maria Luisa. Donatello, of whom, once you enter the Basilica, you can immediately admire two splendid pulpits created by the now 70-year-old artist. Also in the crypt is that of Cosimo de' Medici, his protector, friend and patron of the Basilica. The Laurentian Library and the New Sacristy, two masterpieces by Michelangelo, are also part of the San Lorenzo complex. The latter is accessed by visiting the Medici Chapels, the private mausoleum of the Medici family. Below is Michelangelo's "secret room", in which the artist, who never separated from his work tools, used the walls as canvases where he drew and made studies of some of his works, either already completed or yet to be completed, such as the tangled bodies of the Sistine Chapel.
