Frequently asked questions

The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano) is an elevated, enclosed passage that runs from the Uffizi Galleries, along the Arno, over the top of the Ponte Vecchio and through to the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens — described by the Uffizi as about 750 metres long, and often cited as up to around a kilometre. It was designed by Giorgio Vasari and built in 1565 for Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, so the Medici family could move privately between the government palace and their residence without entering the public street. It reopened on 21 December 2024 after eight years closed for restoration.

The Vasari Corridor is sold only as a combined Uffizi + Vasari Corridor ticket — there is no Corridor-only ticket. The good news is the same ticket admits you to the Uffizi Galleries, so you can explore the Uffizi before heading to the Corridor entrance inside the gallery for your timed group.

The reopened route is a walk through the structure itself. Along the way you pass almost three hundred ancient Greek and Latin marble inscriptions, around fifty Greco-Roman portrait busts of emperors and empresses (Augustus, Antoninus Pius, Commodus, the empresses Sabina and Faustina among them), and 16th-century frescoes created under Vasari's direction. There are memorial spaces for the 1944 destruction of Florence's bridges and the 1993 Via dei Georgofili bombing. The famous self-portrait collection that once hung here has been moved into dedicated rooms inside the main gallery.

Not any more. For decades the Corridor was lined with hundreds of artists' self-portraits begun by Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici in the 17th century. During the restoration those works were relocated to dedicated rooms inside the Uffizi's main galleries. The reopened Corridor instead displays ancient inscriptions, Greco-Roman busts and Vasari-era frescoes, with the bare structure and the views over the Arno as the experience.

The Corridor walk is one-directional, from the Uffizi over the Ponte Vecchio towards the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens side. Allow roughly 45–60 minutes for the Corridor itself once your group enters, plus however long you spend in the Uffizi beforehand on the same ticket. Groups run Tuesday to Sunday, with the first at 10:15 and the last at 16:35.

It sits within one. The Corridor and the Ponte Vecchio it crosses are celebrated features of the Historic Centre of Florence, which UNESCO inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1982. The Corridor is a landmark within that listing rather than a separately inscribed monument.

The Uffizi is beside Piazza della Signoria in the heart of Florence's pedestrian centre, about a 15-minute walk from Firenze Santa Maria Novella station. Enter the Uffizi with your combined ticket; the Vasari Corridor begins inside the gallery, from room D19 on the first floor. Arrive in good time so you reach the Corridor entrance before your group's start time.

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