{"id":524,"date":"2024-12-27T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:38:14","slug":"stories-and-facts-about-the-vasari-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/stories-and-facts-about-the-vasari-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories and facts about the Vasari Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Vasari Corridor is one the most renowned secret passages in the world<\/strong>: since the late Renaissance it connects the Uffizi Gallery to the Pitti Palace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we listed some curiosities and facts<\/strong> of this hidden passage of Florence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1565<\/strong> when the Grand Duke Cosimo I commissioned<\/strong> the corridor in connection with the marriage of his son Francesco with Johanna d’Austria;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5<\/strong> months needed by architect Giorgio Vasari to build the Vasari Corrdor, which took its name;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.000<\/strong> meters is the lenght<\/strong> of this enclosed passageway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Pitti Palace;<\/p>\n\n\n

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Design by Giorgio Pomella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

700<\/strong> were the portraits of artists collected in the Vasari Corridor, making it one of the largest collections in the world;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3<\/strong> are the segmental arches that are the basement of the Ponte Vecchio<\/strong>, whose innovative construction inspired the construction of the Rialto Bridge in Venice;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1593<\/strong> when the Grand Dukes banned butchers’ shops<\/strong> from Ponte Vecchio, allowing only goldsmiths and jewelers;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 <\/strong>are the monuments and buildings crossed by the enclosed passageway<\/strong>: Palazzo Vecchio, Uffizi Gallery<\/a>, Ponte Vecchio, Santa Felicita Church and the Grotto of Buontalenti in the Boboli Gardens;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/strong> is the tower left from the construction: Torre dei Mannelli<\/strong> because the Mannelli family didn’t leave the house and Vasari had to build the corridor around the tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prince Passage from Palazzo Vecchio to Uffizi Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Path of the Prince is the beginning of the Vasari Corridor<\/strong>, commissioned to Giorgio Vasari in 1565<\/strong> by the Grand Duke Cosimo I to connect the government palace (Palazzo Vecchio) to the public offices (Uffizi Gallery) and his residence in Oltrarno (Pitti Palace).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial part of the Vasari Corridor was closed to the public during the 19th century<\/strong>, and in more than 100 years it has been opened and used only for private and official ceremonies and events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vist the Vasari Corridor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Varasi Corridor is now <\/strong>open to the public with a special ticket. Reservation in mandatory. Please check all the information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Vasari Corridor is one the most renowned secret passages in the world: since the late Renaissance it connects the Uffizi Gallery to the Pitti Palace. Here we listed some curiosities and facts of this hidden passage of Florence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visit-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}