Palazzo Panciatichi Ximenes da Sangallo, Renaissance palace in Borgo Pinti, Florence, Italy.

Palazzo Panciatichi Ximenes da Sangallo is a Renaissance palace on Borgo Pinti with a sixteenth-century facade that displays symmetrical proportions and refined stonework. At its heart lies a central courtyard that opens onto an Italian garden arranged in geometric patterns.

Giuliano and Antonio da Sangallo, two architect brothers, designed and built this palace in 1498 as both a residence and a personal art gallery. In later periods, wealthy families who bought the property continued to expand its collections of paintings and sculptures.

Over the centuries, the palazzo housed collectors who filled its rooms with paintings and sculptures. This tradition of gathering art reflects how affluent Florentines used their homes as private museums to showcase their taste and passion.

The palace stands at Borgo Pinti 68, on the corner with Via Giusti, and is not open to the public; visitors can only view the facade from the street. The garden, now much reduced after Via del Mandorlo (today Via Giusti) was cut through it in 1865, is not accessible. The courtyard with the Hercules statue is likewise private.

Napoleon stayed here for only two nights, on 30 June and 1 July 1796, as a guest of the French ambassador Miot, while searching Tuscany for the San Miniato relatives on whom he based his claims to nobility. The palace then served as the French embassy, and after the grand duke fled, the French Republic's resident minister moved in.