It is one of the most famous and most popular museums in the world, renowned for its magnificent collection of Renaissance paintings and other masterpieces, with artworks from artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci and many others, arranged in chronological order.
The museum is located within a 16th-century building designed by Giorgio Vasari to be the offices of Cosimo I de Medici, thus the name “Uffizi”.
MUST-SEE PAINTINGS
Second floor
The visit starts on the second floor with the Maestà by Duccio, Cimabue and Giotto (rooms A4 – A7) and continues with The Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi and the famous Double Portrait of the Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca depicting Federico da Montefeltro, probably one of the most famous noses in art history (room A9). An individual room is reserved for the two most iconic masterpieces in the museum: the Primavera (room A11) and the Birth of Venus (room A12) by Botticelli.
After the rooms of Ghirlandaio (room A25), Perugino (room A27) and Filippino Lippi (room A28), you will reach the room with the famous Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci (room A35). Room A38 is shared with Raphael and Michelangelo containing the delicacy of the Madonna del Cardellino and the majesty of the Doni Madonna. Starting from autumn 2024, a new room displays the original style of Andrea del Sarto with his Madonna of the Harpies (room A41).
First floor
Among the others, here you will see the Madonna with the Long Neck by Parmigianino (room D8), the Venetian masterpieces by Titian and The Venus of Urbino by Titian (room D22), Veronese (room D25), Tintoretto (room D24) and the intense Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi and the Medusa by Caravaggio (room E4).
TOURS AND TICKETS
You can choose among 3 different tours: fast (one hour and a half to 2 hours) limited to the second floor; classic (more than 2 hours), second floor and part of the first floor; complete (more than 3 hours).
