Palazzo Bargagli represents an important element of the architectural fabric of the Lungarni in Florence. The complex consists of two neighbouring buildings, one facing Corso Tintori and the other facing the Lungarno delle Grazie. The former has stylistic characteristics in harmony with the other surviving buildings in Corso Tintori, an example of one of the oldest streets in the city; on the other hand the second, facing the Lungarno delle Grazie, possesses the architectural characteristics of the city around 1800 with obvious typological details of the period when Florence was the capital of Italy. Afterwards and until the period between the two World Wars the two properties were used as a luxury hotel and in certain parts one can still find traces of that activity. Successively, until the last phase of restoration the whole complex was destined for use as offices for a company which had only taken care of aspects of ordinary maintenance. The commission has included the planning and execution of the project, the directing of the works of reconstruction and restoration, the co-ordination of the technical and structural projects and the installations. Assistance has also been supplied for the technical and administrative tests and accountancing. On the departure of the public company from the premises a series of important interventions for the restoration works was initiated. These interventions, although persisting in keeping the complex for the use as offices, have involved almost all of the conditions essential for the restoration of the complex. This concerns particularly the reclamation and restoration of the cellars, the roofs and façades, and of new vertical connections, new construction of technological installations, to a new allocation of interior spaces and to the conservation and philological restoration of the architectural elements and the finishings. Particular attention has been given to the recovery and philological restoration of all of the surviving original details while at the same time marrying such an operation with the new requirements concerning the new distribution of the areas, of the installations and the regulations. In its entirety the complex contains a building facing Corso Tintori which ranging over four floors for a total of 1,700 square meters together with another edifice facing Lungarno delle Grazie which occupies three floors in addition to a terrace and a covered loggia on the roof for a total of approximately 2,700 square metres. The total complex consequently covers 4,400 square metres. We are therefore dealing with an important contribution to the fabric of the historical centre of Florence for its size, its situation and for the general historical character of the architecture.