The Uffizi Gallery

"The Uffizi Gallery represents to Italy one of the most famous museum in the world, thanks to its marvellous collections of paintings, statues, sculptures of the fourteenth century. Among the most famous works of art some of them are quoted, such as the most note names of Correggio, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Donatello, Botticelli, Giotto, Raffaello.
Other important works of art belong to the Flemish, the Dutch and the German.
The Uffizi Gallery was built during the sixteenth century by Giorgio Vasari, commissioned by Cosimo I of the Medici.
The project provided the construction of a huge palace with two wings, destined to the use of the Fiorentin State, welcoming the judicial and administrative offices.
After a few years the same Vasari built an area for the Gallery which linked with the Uffizi Gallery to the Residence of the Pitti Palace, till to arrive at the Boboli Garden.
The first nucleus of the Uffizi Gallery was created by Francesco I, son of the Cosimo of the Medici. He changed this part of the palace in an area of passage.
Lots of people come from all over the world to see this magnificent work of art!! They do not realize the beauty of the Uffizi Gallery until they come there.
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