Uffizi Galleries
Former offices turned art museum, holding one of the world's premier Renaissance collections.
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About this audio guide
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.
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