Introducing size – below we look at Italy’s 30 largest towns and cities (a list which, notably, doesn’t include Venice or ...

The 2,500-foot-long Vasari Corridor impressed guests of the Medicis and other leaders that followed (including Benito ...

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Florence, Italy, is a city brimming with history, art, and culture. However, what if I told you that a secret passageway, hidden for centuries, has just opened to the public for the first time? That’s ...

FLORENCE, Italy — For centuries, Florence's 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the ...

A secret passageway built in 1565 for the ruling Medici family in Florence, Italy ... painter and architect Giorgio Vasari. Constructed in just five months, the corridor provided a secure and ...

"After an eight-year wait, the reopening of the Vasari Corridor returns a masterpiece within a masterpiece to Florence and Italy," Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli said. —AFP ...

During Nardella’s tenure he introduced a series of bans and regulations to limit numbers of visitors, making Florence the first Italian city to crack down on overtourism.

That same year, a group of German tourists on holiday in Florence smeared the columns of the Vasari Corridor of the Uffizi Gallery with writings in black paint. A replica of Michelangelo’s ...