The first news on the building in where be based La Residenza Fiorentina, dates back to 1534, when the family Da Sommaia declared the purchase to register.In the first of seventeenth century was bought by the family Bourbon Del Monte Santa Maria, who made considerable modifications to the achievement of the current building. In this respect in Via de 'Fossi' and Via della 'Spada' today you can see the crest of the family.In 1863 the Palace was bought by the Marquis Lorenzo Niccolini who did extensive work of transformation throughout the property.Externally the building is an important example of architecture of the sixteenth century. At the entrance we can admire the rich scale and the scale Buontalenti original decorations of the seventeenth century.