---
node: spot_florence_uffizi
type: spot
slug: uffizi
destination: dest_florence
title: "Uffizi Gallery"
lead: "The Uffizi holds the greatest collection of Italian Renaissance painting anywhere, in the office building Vasari put up for Cosimo I in 1560. Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera hang in the same room."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_florence_uffizi.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4,9_Millionen_Personen_besuchten_2023_die_Uffizien._03.jpg"
image_author: "Holger Uwe Schmitt"
image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

## Overview

The Medici assembled it, and the last of the line, Anna Maria Luisa, left the whole collection to Florence in 1743 on the condition that nothing ever leave the city. The rooms run chronologically along two long corridors, so the visit is a walk from Giotto through Leonardo and Michelangelo to Caravaggio. A car bomb in 1993 killed five people and destroyed part of the west wing; the damage was repaired and the gallery reopened within weeks.

## Highlights

Book a timed entry, which costs a few euros more and saves two hours in August. Room 8 to room 15 is the core — Piero della Francesca's diptych, the two Botticellis, Leonardo's Annunciation and Adoration. The corridor windows over the Arno are the best free view of Ponte Vecchio in the city.