Palace of Florence

Medici Riccardi Palace	Pitti Palace	Rucellai Palace
Strozzi Palace	Old Palace (Palace of the Signoria)	Museums Accademia Gallery
Uffizi Gallery	Bardini Museum	Museum of the Works of the Duomo
National Museum of the Bargello	The Piazza of the Signoria	Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge")

Uffizi Gallery
The Gallery is located in the impressive Uffizi Palace built in the mid-sixteenth century by Giorgio Vasari and finished after his death by the architects Parigi and Buontalenti.
The Uffizi, in a horseshoe shape, extends from the Piazza della Signoria to the Arno river and is connected to the Palazzo Vecchio by a footbridge.
The building was designed to contain the "Offices" (Uffici) of justice: hence the name. Since their origins, however, certain rooms on the third floor were dedicated by the Medici for prestigious art collections of later centuries.
In 1737, thanks to the foresightful generosity of Anna Maria Luisa, last survivor of this family renowned for its art collections and patronage, the Uffizi became a public trust.
The Gallery today contains masterpieces of Italian and international artists of the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, including Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Durer, Goya and many others.
The Vasari Wing, leading from the Ufizzi to the Pitti Palace, holds a famous collection of self-portraits which is the only one of its kind in the world.