Cultural Routes

Le Gallerie degli Uffizi / Le Gallerie degli Uffizi

Cultural Route

• European Route of Historic Gardens

Country

• Italy

Member Category

• Cultural Institution / NGO
• Heritage Site

Member Status

Individual

Year of Accession to Membership

N/D

Contact Details

Piazzale degli Uffizi 6
IT-50122 Firenze

Tel: +39 055 294 883
Website: www.uffizi.it
Email: infouffizi[at]beniculturali.it

Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Gardens)
Piazza Pitti 1
IT-50125 Firenze

Tel: +39 055 294 883
Website: www.uffizi.it/giardino-boboli
Email: infouffizi[at]beniculturali.it

Contact Person

N/D

Main Town/Region

Florence (Tuscany)

Site Town/Region

Florence (Tuscany)

Main GPS Location

52.367643, 9.737564

Site GPS Location

43.765424, 11.249857

UNESCO World Heritage List

Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (2013) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/175)

European Heritage Label

N/D

Other Heritage Labels

N/D

Description

Le Gallerie degli Uffizi is state museum complex including the Uffizi Gallery, the Vasari Corridor, the collections of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens.
Begun in 1549 and designed by Niccolò Pericoli, known as Tribolo, for Duchess Eleonora of Toledo, the arrangement of the Boboli Gardens created the model of an Italian garden that became an example for many European courts. The vast green area divided in a regular way, constitutes a real open-air museum, populated with ancient and Renaissance statues, adorned with caves and monumental fountains (www.europeanhistoricgardens.eu/en/portfolio-item/boboli-garden).

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