Uffizi Gallery

Gallerie degli Uffizi

Where you stand in front of Botticelli's Venus

⚠ Closed Mon; named tickets

Hours

Tue–Sun 8:15–18:30 (last entry 17:30). Closed Mondays, 1 Jan, 1 May and 25 Dec. Some Tuesday late openings to 21:30, announced on the official site

Tickets

€29 booked ahead, €25 bought on the day, €16 for entry after 4pm. With the Vasari Corridor €47 (€43 on the day). Five-day PassePartout for the Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli €40. Free on the first Sunday of the month. Official site: uffizi.it

Address

Piazzale degli Uffizi 6, the U-shaped building running from Piazza della Signoria to the river

This was the Medici government office block, so the galleries open off long corridors with every inch of ceiling painted in grotesques. The scene in nearly every review is a half-circle of people round Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera. Add Leonardo's Annunciation, Michelangelo's round Doni Tondo and Caravaggio, and several chapters of the art-history textbook hang in one building. The corridor windows frame the Ponte Vecchio, and from the rooftop café terrace the Palazzo Vecchio tower is right beside you.