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Built as the parish church of the Medici family and consecrated as one of the oldest churches in Florence, the Basilica of San Lorenzo lies just behind the central market and was rebuilt in its present form in the early fifteenth century to designs by Filippo Brunelleschi. Many of the early Medici, including Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent, are buried in its precincts. Brunelleschi nave, with its grey pietra serena pilasters set against pale plaster walls, is a textbook example of ...