The Uffizi’s hidden Medici passageway has opened to the public for the first time following an eight-year restoration.
The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano)—the secret passageway over the Arno River in Florence that connects the Uffizi ...
The Vasari Corridor was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici as part of the celebrations for the marriage between his son and ...
The Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, was built as a secret pathway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti via ...
The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move secretly and safely from one part of the ...
Now, for the first time in history, the Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, has opened to the general public. Less a corridor, more a private walking trail through the center of Florence ...
FLORENCE, Italy — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the ...