Corridoio Vasariano

This guide to the Vasari Corridor above Florence's Ponte Vecchio opens with the 1993 car bombing on Via dei Georgofili that killed five people just below its walls, then rewinds to 1565, when Duke Cosimo de' Medici had the passage built in five months so he could cross unseen from Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti. You'll hear why his son evicted the bridge's butchers in favor of goldsmiths decades later. Walk the corridor's length above the bridge's rooftops as you listen.