Here's my guide to visiting the Palazzo Vecchio, a must visit attraction in Florence Italy. The Palazzo Vecchio is a doughty medieval fortress on the outside and a resplendent Renaissance palace on the inside. It's one of Florence's most historic and important landmarks, designed and decorated by the Medici dynasty.

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A tiny keyhole in the wood paneling turned out to be a portal to Britain's history — a passage created 360 years ago for the coronation of Charles II.

If there's one dream that unites all bookish folks (aside from, you know, universal literacy) it's the dream of having a secret passageway hidden

We are always wishing for more storage in our homes but there are only so many shelves and hooks you can put up until it seems like every inch of available stor…

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ~ Franz Kafka

We don’t have anything close to a wine collection; we keep perhaps three or four bottles around. So a wine cellar is quite unnecessary, but that doesn’t stop us fantasizing about a dusty cellar full of old vintages. Then we saw the Spiral Cellar, and that romantic idea of a wine cellar was joined up with an even older fantasy: the trapdoor in the kitchen floor.A trapdoor! It’s a trope of mysteries, spy novels, and thrillers.

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Hidden room | secret door bookshelf.