The Uffizi Gallery Museum is one of the most famous museums in the world for its extraordinary collections of paintings and ancient statues.

The Uffizi Gallery Museum was built by the will of the Grand Duke Francesco I and enriched thanks to the contribution of numerous members of the Medici family, passionate collectors of paintings, sculptures and art objects. The collection was rearranged and expanded under the Lorraine dynasty, who succeeded the Medici, and later by the Italian state.

His collections of paintings from the fourteenth century and the Renaissance contain some absolute masterpieces of art of all times . Just remember the names of Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio.

The collections of German, Dutch and Flemish painters are also important. Among them: Dürer, Rembrandt, Rubens . The Gallery is located on the second and first floor of the large building built between 1560 and 1580 to a design by Giorgio Vasari as the seat of the main administrative offices of the Tuscan state.

Other important collections are housed in the Vasari complex : the Contini Bonacossi Collection, which can be visited in the wing adjacent to the back of the Loggia dei Lanzi and the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Uffiz I, which contains the prestigious graphic collection, already collected by the Tuscan dynasties and which enriches every year with purchases and donations.

The Vasari Corridor is a suspended corridor built by Vasari in 1565, it connects the Uffizi building with Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti.