Uffizi Galleries

This guide to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence opens just after one in the morning on May 27, 1993, when a truck packed with explosives was parked in the narrow lane beside the museum. It traces why the Sicilian Mafia, under boss Salvatore Riina, chose this particular building as a target in its campaign against the Italian state, and what stood inside and above it — including the Vasari Corridor, the elevated passage the Medici built to move through the city unseen. Best listened to standing in the lane alongside the museum, Via dei Georgofili.