About Us

The Pharmacy "Under the Moro" was founded in 1265 and is the oldest pharmacy in Florence open to the public.
The pharmacy is open 365 days a year with 8-24 hours.
The staff has a good level of knowledge of the languages English, French, Arabic, German and Spanish.

First, in another position, is now in front of the Duomo and Baptistry by 5 centuries, exactly in 1521. In the past called "Apothecary of the Moor", once belonged to Anton Francesco Grazzini, said Roach, a renowned burlesque poet and playwright, one of the founders of two very well known academies, the Florentine and the Crusca, like a marble inscription reads all mail 'inside the pharmacy: "... in conferences pleased / academy of moist then founded Florentine / incruscate those whose meetings / in one of the famous bran were turned ...".

This registration made on a "splinter" of Carrara marble comes (as we learn from a correspondence preserved in the State Archives of Florence) from the marble block for the realization of a distinguished work of art: the "Rape of Polyxena "by sculptor Pio Fedi that stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi.

It is known that this ancient Apothecary, also frequented by Luca Landucci and Matteo Palmieri, also Apothecaries and witty writers, at one time was an important point of reference where linger about the events in Florence.

Faithful to the tradition and always at the forefront, are now members of the most important products and novelties offered in the market of the drug, parafarmaco, cosmetics, hygiene, homeopathy and herbal medicine, health care and medical equipment.
open 365 days a year with hours 8-24.