The plazza is directly in front of the Plazzo Vecchio which was the palace for the Medici Family. Vanessa and I was drawn to this square many times during our two week visit in May. We found the best gelato here and ate dinners and lunch at the outside cafes. I've made the risotto that I tasted here a couple of times since coming home.
Originally Michelangelo's David was placed in the square, but now a copy of the David stands in it's place. The David was moved to protect it from weather damage and vandal to a more secure inside location at the Galleria dell'Accademia (which roughly translates to the "the learning gallery").
Below are some of the sculpture we saw here:
The copy of the David statue, a close-up of part of the bronze statue on the Neptune Fountain, The Rape of the Sabine Women (not know for it's subject, but for the beautiful form of three flowing bodies molded together - the statue was carved from a single stone - unheard of at the time), Perseus, a shot of the whole Neptune Fountain. The last two are pictures of the square where the cafes are.
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