Palazzo dei Cerchi, Medieval palace in central Florence, Italy.

Palazzo dei Cerchi is a stone structure positioned at the intersection of three streets in central Florence, featuring regularly laid stone blocks and arches at ground level. The building stretches across multiple levels with shops and storage spaces on the lower floors and residential quarters above.

Built between the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the palace was not the seat of the Cerchi branch fighting in the White and Black Guelph conflicts, but of related branches that stayed in Florence after the Black Guelphs' banishment. These families took the names Cerchi Riccardi, Lupacci, Barbetti and Botti, yet the building kept the original family name. It rose from the union of several tower houses of the Cerchi consortium. Jacopo dei Cerchi later left it to the Captains of the Bigallo.

Jacopo dei Cerchi left the palace to the Captains of the Bigallo, who rented the ground floor to shops. There Bernardo Cennini printed the first book printed in Florence in 1471, and from 1547 Lorenzo Torrentino, from Brabant, issued more than six hundred works of literature, philosophy and law. Tartini, Franchi and Cambiagi also worked there.

The ground floor is easily accessible from the surrounding streets, offering a good starting point for exploring the historic business district. It helps to view the facade from different angles to observe the stonework details and the structure of the arches carefully.

The structure incorporates remnants of the ancient Alepri Tower and displays one of Florence's oldest projecting rusticated stonework at ground level. These preserved features make it a rare example of the city's earliest stone-working techniques.