We’ve been offering guided tours of the Vasari Corridor for a few years now, but yesterday we added a few extra times as well as a totally new tour (including a tour of the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace with the Palatine Gallery). So now you may opt to visit just the Vasari Corridor, [...]
Florence, Easter Monday, special openings
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Short notice, but you may be pleased to know that pretty much all Florence galleries and museums will be open for Pasquetta – Easter Monday: Uffizi Gallery 8.15 – 18.50 Accademia Gallery (David) 8.15 – 18.50 Boboli Gardens (with the Silver Museum, Costume Gallery, Porcelain Museum and the Bardini Gardens) 8.15 – 18.30 Medici Chapels [...]
Florence, Uffizi Gallery exhibition 2012, Gothic art
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Bagliori dorati, il gotico internazionale a Firenze 1375-1440′ Florence, Uffizi Gallery 19th June – 4th November 2012 The second major exhibition at the Uffizi in 2012, this display of Gothic art from the Florence of 1375 to 1440 can be translated as ‘Golden (choose between:) glimmers/glows/dazzles/glints’, and highlights an incredible period in Florence’s artistic past, [...]
Florence, Uffizi Gallery exhibition 2012 – precious tapestries
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘La Galleria degli arazzi. Epifanie di tessuti preziosi’ Florence, Uffizi Gallery 20th March – 3rd June 2012 Featuring 17 prestigious tapestries, this exhibition offers a rare glimpse into one of the many hidden galleries (reserve collections) of the Uffizi. These works have been under lock, key and cover since 1987 … one day they will [...]
Florence – part of the ‘New Uffizi’ about to reopen
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Florence, Uffizi Gallery, 17th December 2011 A year late, and still only a partial opening, but an opening nonetheless. Tomorrow sees the official opening of eight rooms of the long-awaited ‘Nuovi Uffizi’ extension; not quite the Summer opening that we talked about here, but it is a definitive opening and will be attended by the [...]
Florence, Boxing Day (December 26th) special openings
December 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some extra special openings in Florence on the 26th of December 2011; the 26th is a Monday and ordinarily the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery (home to David) would be closed. Not so this year, although they will be closing an hour or so earlier. Uffizi booking Accademia and David booking Recommend on Facebook [...]
Uffizi Gallery, special opening 31st October 2011
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A special opening of the (normally closed on a Monday) Uffizi Gallery in Florence for the long weekend – Monday 31st October 2011. That’s it. Uffizi Gallery reservations Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it
Florence, possible closures 31st August 2011
August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As ever, apologies for the lateness of this announcement – this blog post is in response to a confirmation received little more than an hour ago from the Florence authorities. Due to staff meetings, it is possible that there will be some temporary closures at both the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery tomorrow, the [...]
Florence, Ferragosto 2011, Uffizi and Accademia open
August 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Florence, 15th August 2011 Both the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia are ordinarily closed on Mondays but we have today been informed that both venues will be open on Monday the 15th of August 2011, the day of the national Ferragosto holiday. The hours are as follows: Galleria della Accademia – 08.15 – 13.50 Uffizi [...]
Works from the Uffizi at Montecatini Terme
April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
‘Santi, Poeti and Navigatori’ Montecatini Terme, Terme Tamerici, Via delle Tamerici April 16th – July 16th 2011 A collection of over 70 portraits by Cristofano dell’Altissimo, all produced for Cosimo Medici I, all on loan from the Uffizi, and all of history making figures – the poets, saints and ‘navigators’ (as in explorers, conquistors) of [...]
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