Vasari Corridor Private Tour
The Vasari Corridor and the Uffizi Gallery Tour with Private Guide
The visit to the Vasari Corridor is perhaps the most exclusive experience to organize in Florentine museums. In fact, the Vasari Corridor, designed by Giorgio Vasari in 1565 at the behest of Cosimo I de' Medici, represents a truly exceptional architectural work both for its very rapid construction times and for its very structure. The Corridor has finally reopened its doors to visitors after long years of restoration.
VASARI CORRIDOR PRIVATE TOUR DETAILS
When: every day except Monday and the first Sunday of each month.
Starting time: from 8.30 to 13.00 at the visitor's choice.
The tour can be booked privately for a maximum of 9 visitors.
For larger groups please write to info@ticketsflorence.com for more information and to receive a personalized quote.
The price of the tour includes: entrance with reservation to the Vasari Corridor, entrance to the Uffizi Gallery, 3-hour guided tour with official guide, earphones for groups of more than 5 participants.
VASARI CORRIDOR HISTORY
Visiting the Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano) is the most exclusive experience to organise in Florentine museums. The corridor was projected in 1565 by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici and represents an exceptional architectural masterpiece for it's structure and for the fact that it was built in less than 6 months.
Normally the Corridor is not open to the public. A special authorization has to be asked to museum local authorities to open and visit it. Visitors have to be accompanied by an authorized guide and a museum assistant during their tour along the Corridor.
This extraordinary elevated passageway connects Palazzo Vecchio with the Uffizi Gallery to Pitti Palace, ending in the Boboli Garden by the Great Cave (Grotta Grande), masterpiece by Buontalenti. The path accommodates a varied collection of portraits of different times and remarkable prestige and represents an excellent architectonic example of Vasari's genius as an architect.
This passage connects the three Medici's palaces by crossing the Arno river along a hidden path through the Ponte Vecchio, winding with banked up towers and antique buildings. Whilst walking on the path, visitors may admire unforgettable views of the city and it's principal monuments, overviews and glimpses that may only be appreciated through the small windows of the one kilometre Corridor. In the Corridor visitors can also discover the internal window that opens up into the church of Santa Felicita. This singular opening would enable the Medici to attend mass from their private, elevated position and to spy upon their citizens without being seen!
Vasari Corridor & Uffizi Tour Itinerary
Combined Guided Tour: Uffizi Gallery and Vasari Corridor with Private Guide
This tour has a total duration of approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes (of which 3 hours are guided).
The itinerary can be customized based on visitors' special requests. Normally the itinerary includes a visit of about two hours inside the Uffizi Gallery to admire the main masterpieces of the Museum, then followed by the entrance to the Corridor which will be followed from the Uffizi until the exit into the Boboli Gardens at the Buontalenti Grotto.
The first part of the tour, however, will take place in the Piazzale degli Uffizi where the guide will introduce the Vasari Corridor, showing its structure externally and in particular the part that goes from Palazzo Vecchio to the Lungarno and above Ponte Vecchio.
The tour then continues inside the Uffizi Gallery where the guide will lead visitors to discover the main works of the museum, focusing in particular on works ranging from the early Renaissance to the late Renaissance. Following the tour of the Uffizi, there will be entrance to the Vasraiano Corridor located on the first floor of the gallery. The guided tour will end at the entrance to the Corridor where the guide will take leave of the visitors.
The Corridor does not contain exhibitions of works. The tour then continues as a walk along the Vasari, a route of approximately 1 km. The maximum duration of this walk is approximately 40 minutes. Visitors will be accompanied by a museum employee together with other visitors, a maximum of 25 at a time.
Cancellation Policy - Vasari Corridor Tour
From booking to 16 working days before the date of the visit, the cancellation penalty applied is equal to 40% of the total price of the tour.
From 15 working days to 5 working days before the date of the visit, the cancellation penalty applied is equal to 70% of the total price of the tour.
For all those cancellations that are communicated to Italy Travels 4 working days before the day of the visit, the cancellation penalty applied is the entire amount of the tour (100% of the total price), therefore you will not be entitled to any refund.
In case of cancellation of tickets or tours, please contact our offices via email info@ticketsflorence.com.
In any case, cancellations must be communicated in writing by email or fax in order to receive a partial refund of the amount paid, where provided for by the cancellation policy above. For the purposes of calculating the cancellation penalty, the date of receipt of the cancellation request sent by the customer will prevail. For this purpose, cancellation requests received by telephone and not accompanied by any written document will not be considered valid.
Our guides
Italy Travels tour guides staff is represented by licensed guides of great experience and high level of professionalism, competence and excellence on their job. All Italy Travels guides are authorized by the provincial administration of Florence and most of them are art historians and teachers in art subjects.
All private tours organized by Italy Travels always include pre-reserved museum tickets when museum tours are included in the tour itinerary. In this way visitors avoid waisting time waiting in line in front of museums ticket offices.
