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Ticket booking for tours of the Vasari Corridor, Florence
It has always been difficult to see the Vasari Corridor - Corridoio Vasariano - despite an official reopening in 2010. Access is restricted, and you may only visit as part of a guided group. Perhaps that is why this absolute gem still remains largely unknown, a genuine hidden treasure of Florence, despite being on full view to pretty much every visitor to the city!
The corridor, constructed in just 5 months during 1564 to designs by Vasari, was built to allow Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici to travel from the family residence in the Pitti Palace to the Palazzo Vecchio, crossing the river Arno and avoiding having to descend at any time to rough it with the plebeians. It is a series of long (total length is approaching a kilometre), elevated passageways, starting in the Boboli gardens, crossing the river atop the famed goldsmith shops of the Pontevecchio, traversing the Arno before entering the Uffizi and on to the Palazzo Vecchio. The photograph above shows the Pontevecchio section before it turns 90 degrees into the riverside corridor- the route is marked by the series of regular, square windows atop the arcades.
This will likely be one of your more unique experiences in Florence, offering countless unique perspectives on the city as well as viewings of more than 1000 artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries plus the unique collection of self portraits housed in the Uffizi section of the corridor. The tour finishes in the Boboli Gardens of the Pitti Palace, but note that you will be led out at the end of the tour and will need to buy tickets to visit the gardens if you intend to explore them fully.
You may read more about the Vasari Corridor on our blog here.
Availability is very limited, and booking is mandatory. The tour runs at 4.45 PM** on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, lasts for roughly one and a half hours, and for now is available until the end of December 2011. We also offer another, longer tour that lasts three hours as it includes a guided tour of both the corridor and of the Uffizi Gallery. This tour also runs Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday but departs at 3.30 PM**.
Please note that this tour requires a minimum of 8 people to go ahead. In the (extremely) unlikely event that this figure is not reached then you'll be issued with a full refund.
Please click on the calendar (the small square icon) below to select a date, next choose which tour (with or without the Uffizi) you are interested in, then click the 'Click to continue with booking>>' button to begin the booking procedure.
(Do remember that dates are in European (day-month-year) format.)
1. Click on the calendar icon to the left to choose a date. 2. Select type of tour. 3. Click button to continue. |
HOW YOU'LL GET YOUR TICKETS:
To reserve your tickets for these Vasari Corridor tours, just fill out the booking form, supply us with credit card details, and we'll do the rest. There will be no charge whatsoever until we confirm your reservation. We'll then point you to our secure page, where you can print out your entry voucher. Print it out, take it with you and present it at the pre-arranged meeting point. As simple as that!
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