It was in the second half of the 19th Century that Federico Stibbert amassed a rich and varied collection of art at his villa on the Montughi Hill. The building contains around 60 rooms full of paintings, furniture and porcelain from around the world and was gifted to Florence in 1906. Stibbert’s passion for weapons and armour is evident from the collection of the 15th to the 17th Century; which includes European, Oriental, Persian, Indian and Islamic. The most impressive room is called the ‘Cavalcade’ in which there are displays of numerous horses with riders in full dress.
