Buying tickets to the Uffizi Gallery means giving yourself an unforgettable experience that is definitely not to be missed for those visiting Florence for the first time, but not only. This museum is a place of the heart to which even those who know the city well will always return.
On the banks of the Arno River is one of the most important museums in the world, thanks to an extraordinary collection of priceless works of art. The building that houses the Uffizi Galleries, built in 1560 on the orders of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo I and designed by the architect Vasari, originally housed the offices of the Florentine magistracy, but from the beginning it was also an extraordinary container for works of art.
The collections inside have grown richer and richer over the centuries, and today the Uffizi is a state museum and a unique place that can boast the absolute masterpieces of almost all the greatest artists from Italy and beyond. Works by Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and many others are on display in this extraordinary Florentine museum, which also has another special feature.
The so-called Vasari Corridor, in fact the famous suspended corridor overlooking the Arno, is an exhibition space (temporarily closed for restoration), but also functions as a link between the Uffizi Gallery itself and two other important palaces in Florence, Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. It was built with the intention of providing a safe passage between the palaces of power and the homes of the Medici at a time when political strife was at its height.