An encounter with the great art of the West: wonders to be discovered that never cease to amaze.

The Gallery occupies the entire first and second floors of the large building designed by Giorgio Vasari between 1560 and 1580. It is one of the most famous museums in the world, home to extraordinary collections of ancient sculptures and paintings that trace the evolution of art from the Middle Ages to the modern age.

The collections of paintings from the 14th century and the Renaissance include some of the most admired masterpieces of all time, by masters such as Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio.
Alongside these, the Gallery also houses important works of European painting, particularly German, Dutch and Flemish.

The exhibition is completed by the splendid collections of ancient statuary and busts that belonged to the Medici family: Roman sculptures, often copies of lost Greek originals, which embellish the corridors of the Gallery and bear witness to the collecting taste and passion for antiquity of its founders.

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Piazzale degli Uffizi 6 - 50122 Firenze

The walkway connecting the Uffizi Gallery to Palazzo Pitti is an exciting route that allows visitors to discover the city from surprising and unexpected viewpoints.

Created by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici, the corridor runs for about a kilometre above the city and the river, entering palaces, encircling the Torre de' Mannelli, overlooking the Church of Santa Felicita and ending at Pitti and Boboli. Kings used it to reach Palazzo Vecchio undisturbed and without risk to their safety.

The new layout of the Vasari Corridor allows everyone to walk along this amazing walkway overlooking the heart of Florence.

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Piazzale degli Uffizi 6 - 50122 Firenze

Between public and private court life: a Palace for three dynasties.

Purchased in 1550, the Palace was chosen by Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife Eleanor of Toledo as the new Grand Ducal residence, and it soon became the new symbol of the Medici’s power over Tuscany. It also housed the Court of other two dynasties: the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (which succeeded the Medici from 1737) and the Kings of Italy from the House of Savoy, who inhabited it from 1865. Nonetheless the palace still bears the name of its first owner, the Florentine banker Luca Pitti that in the mid-1400s started its construction – maybe after a design by Brunelleschi – at the foot of the Boboli hill beyond the Arno River.

Today the Palace is divided into five museums: the Treasury of the Grand Dukes and the Museum of Russian Icons (with the Palatine Chapel) on the ground floor, the Palatine Gallery and the Imperial and Royal Apartments on the first floor, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Costume and Fashion on the second floor.

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Piazza de' Pitti 1 - 50125 Firenze

Where Nature, Art, Science and Alchemy meet.

Directly behind Pitti Palace are the marvellous Boboli Gardens. The Medici family established the layout of the gardens, creating the Italian garden style that would become a model for many European courts.

The vast green expanse with a regular layout is a real outdoor museum, populated by ancient and Renaissance statues. The Gardens are also adorned with grottos, the most important of which is the famous grotto realized by Bernardo Buontalenti, as well as large fountains, such as the Fountain of Neptune and the Fountain of the Ocean. The subsequent Habsburg-Lorraine and Savoy dynasties further developed the layout, extending the boundaries that flank the ancient city walls until Porta Romana. In the stunningly beautiful terraced area there is an 18th-century pavilion called the Kaffeehaus, a rare example of Rococo architecture in Tuscany, and the Lemon House built by Zanobi del Rosso between 1777 and 1778. The tour of Boboli Gardens complete the Pitti Palace visit of which it is an integral part, allowing the spirit of court life to be fully appreciated and the gardens to be enjoyed, which, although constantly updated, remain true to their original project.

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Piazza de' Pitti 1 - 50125 Firenze