Uffizi Gallery

Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi, 50122 Firenze

The Uffizi Gallery is a palace in Florence, which holds one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world. This magnificent gallery covers an area of about 8,000 sq metres. The Uffizi Gallery of Italy is built in the form of an horse-shoe extending from Piazzo Signoria to River Arno. Now there are forty-five rooms in Uffizi Gallery. Here the paintings are arranged in a chronological order from thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Ufizzi Art Gallery of Italy exhibits a world-class collection of paintings of all times which includes classical sculpture, paintings on canvas and wood by 13th to 18th century Italian and foreign schools. Masterpieces including works of Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lipi, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo among many others. The Uffizi Art Gallery also exhibits Roman and sixteenth century sculptures, which are diplayed on the three corridors whose ceilings are frescoed with grotesques.

Cosimo I was the one who decided to build the Palace, whose construction was started by Giorgio Vasari in 1560. The Palace was later completed by Buontalenti. The Uffizi Gallery has a four centuries old history and is one of the oldest museums in the world. Other important collections housed at the Uffizi building include important collections by the Contini Bonacossi Collection and the Collection of Prints and Drawings.

Florence's Uffizi Gallery is one of the most renowned tourist attractions of Italy.

The Uffizi Gallery of Italy is a part of the town's group of state museums called Polo Museale Fiorentino. Other museums of the group include the superb Bargello sculpture museum, San Marco, the Medici Chapels, Accademia (David) and the Archaeological Museum.

The Contini Bonacossi Collection and the Collection of Prints and Drawings are also housed here for art lovers. There's the Vasari Corridor, a raised passageway connecting the Uffizi with the Pitti Palace. Built by Vasari in 1565, it displays a collection of 17th-century paintings and the famous collection of artists' Self-portraits.

HOTELS WHERE YOU CAN CHECK IN
There are numerous hotels near Uffizzi Gallery where you can check in. Carolus, Atlantic Palace, Grand Hotel Majestic, Da Verrazano, Hotel Adler Cavalieri, Santa Maria Novella, Granducato, Hotel Atlantic Palace, Hotel La Fortezza Florence etc are some hotels where you can check in.

UFFIZI GALLERY RESERVATION
Innumerable tourists visit the museum and particularly in high season in July, the waiting times can go upto five hours. It's preferable to book a ticket in advance. This will help visitors in avoiding long queues and in saving on waiting time at the entrance and at the desk of the museum. Online reservation facilities are available. The gallery is closed on Monday. It opens at 8:15 in the morning and admission is permitted till 6:00.