Forte di Belvedere is a meandering fort designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Grand Duke Ferdinando I at the end of the sixteenth century. From the gigantic rampart, officers kept watch on four fronts – as much for inward security as to ensure the Palazzo Pitti against unfamiliar assault. Today the stronghold has late spring workmanship shows, which are definitely justified even despite a look if just to delight in the broad city scene that can be had from the fortress. To arrive from Piazza de' Mozzi, turn east down Via dei Renai, past verdant Piazza Nicola Demidoff, committed to the nineteenth century Russian giver who lived close by in Via di San Niccolò.