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About The Uffizi
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The Uffizi Galleries first brought together three extraordinary museum complexes in 2014. Together these three structures contain the core of the collections of art, precious artisan-made objects, books, and plants belonging to the Medici, Habsburg-Lorraine and Savoy families. It is a stunning collection of treasures dating from Antiquity to the 20th century, and over the years it has contributed to the fame of the Uffizi, Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens. Since the Renaissance, these three museum sites have been connected to one another by an ingenious construction, the Vasari Corridor, and together they form one of the most important, most visited culture hubs in the world.
Historically, the integration of these three structures, joining the two banks of the Arno River since the 16th century, is part of peculiar visions of life, culture, power and customs of the ruling families who left their mark on and influenced the history of this area. Commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici, "Di qua d'Arno" palace was built in the mid-16th century to concentrate the full force of public power, creating an administrative headquarters called the "Uffizi" (offices) for Florence's Tribunals, Guilds, Corporations and Courts.
The great architect, Giorgio Vasari, was responsible for the design of a marvelous building, "on the river and almost in the air". Over the course of two hundred years or so, this was destined to house the art collections of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and in 1769, it was opened to the public as a museum - in the modern sense of the word - at the wishes of Grand Duke of Tuscany Peter Leopold.
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