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- Duomo complex
- Ponte Vecchio
(Old Bridge) - Uffizi gallery
- Michelangelo Square
- Pitti Palace & Boboli Garden
- Basilica of
Santa Croce - Bargello Palace
- Orsanmichele Church
- Basilica of
San Miniato - Basilica of
Santa Maria Novella - Medici Riccardi Palace
- Badia Fiorentina Church
- Cestello Church
Uffizi Gallery
Uffizi Gallery
Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world.
The building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as offices for the Florentine magistrates - hence the name "uffizi" ("offices").
In 1993 a car bomb exploded in Via dei Georgofili and damaged parts of the palace, killing five people. The cause has never been established although some suspect the Mafia.
Today the Uffizi is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Florence.
The following is only a small selection from its world-class collection of paintings:
- Cimabue (Maestà)
- Giotto (The Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych)
- Piero della Francesca (Diptych of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Duchess Battista Sforza of Urbino)
- Sandro Botticelli (Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi and others)
- Leonardo da Vinci (The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi)
- Michelangelo (The Doni Tondo)
- Caravaggio (Bacchus, The Sacrifice of Isaac, Medusa)
