The Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, was built as a secret pathway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti via the Uffizi Galleries and the Ponte Vecchio. It’s now open to the public for ...

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The main stretch of the corridor, running from the Uffizi to the Boboli Gardens outside Palazzo Pitti, opened to the ... rat-run of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany — not even members of their staff ...

Florence, Italy (CNN ... sites: the Palazzo Vecchio (the city’s political center), the Uffizi Galleries (once the rulers’ offices, or “uffici”) and Palazzo Pitti, where the family ...

Pair a stop here with a visit to Palazzo Pitti, which is located less than a five-minute walk from the square. Tuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch at a Winery ...

If the Duomo is Florence’s spiritual centre, its civic hub is Piazza della Signoria, a wide square dominated by the medieval town hall of Palazzo Vecchio ... magical. Italy’s most celebrated ...

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the reopening of the Vasari Corridor returns a masterpiece within a masterpiece to Florence and Italy. This ‘Florentine passage,’ designed by the genius of Giorgio Vasari to connect the Medici ...