Palazzina della Livia, Neoclassical palazzo in Piazza San Marco, Florence, Italy

The Palazzina della Livia is a late 18th-century residence at Piazza San Marco with straight lines and balanced proportions typical of Neoclassical design. The building features two main floors with light-colored facades and rooms that retain their original interior details.

Bernardo Fallani built the palazzina between 1775 and 1780 for Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorraine, as the seat of a grand-ducal office on the site of the Medici tapestry workshops. From 1786 it housed the dancer Livia Malfatti Raimondi, the grand duke's mistress, who gave the building its name. In 1865 it was assigned to offices of the Direzione Generale del Demanio e Tasse, and it was restored in 1897.

The building shows how wealthy Florentines of the 18th century designed their homes and which artists they employed. The rooms display a taste that combined classical simplicity with artistic richness.

The building stands at Piazza San Marco 51, on the corner of Via degli Arazzieri, with side entrances at numbers 2-4 of that street. It houses the Circolo Ufficiali di presidio, so the interior is not open as a museum; the facade and the two tondi with anchor, dolphin, cornucopias and caduceus are seen from the street. The rear garden is enclosed by a high wall.

The ground-floor hall known as the Sala delle Finte Rovine, painted by Giuseppe Del Moro and opening onto the rear garden, keeps its frescoed decoration; the interiors, documented as badly degraded in the 1980s, were restored between 1988 and 1990.