After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici's official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.
The Medici's official residence used to belong to the Pitti family.
Two women, both with short, dark hair and wearing glasses, sitting on a wood bench, taking pictures on their iPhone of sleeping puppies, who are lying in a red cardboard box.