According to a statement from the Uffizi Galleries, the 2,500-foot-long Vasari Corridor was commissioned by the second duke of Florence, Cosimo I de’ Medici of the infamous Medici family ...

Occupying the first and second floors of the U-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi along the banks of the Arno River, the Uffizi Gallery was created by the Medici ... Botticelli's "Birth of Venus ...

A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through the ... the corridor begins at what is now the Uffizi Galleries and ends up in the Pitti Palace across the ...

Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after ...

The trail — built in just five months for Cosimo I de’ Medici — connects Florence’s three most famous sites: the Palazzo Vecchio (the city’s political center), the Uffizi Galleries (once the rulers’ ...