Florence is called a "città museo" (city museum) that is to say that the entire city could be considered to be an open-air museum. In fact, all the historical city centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Florence's artistic beauty and its art and cultural heritage are mainly due to many important artistic and cultural movements which were born right here , as well as some of the most famous art masters of the world.
During the past centuries Florence had a central role in many artistic and cultural movements and as a matter of facts, it keeps still today a great artistic and cultural heritage such as art galleries, paintings, statues, monuments, places, churches etc.
The most important museum in Florence is with no doubt the Uffizi Gallery, built by the Medici family in 1581. As a matter of fact, the Uffizi Gallery gathers over 1,600,000 visitors a year and is the 2nd most visited museum in Italy (after the Vatican Museums) and the 23rd most visited museum in the world.
The Academy Gallery is another very important museum in Florence. With its 1,170,933 visitors a year is the 4th most visited museum in Italy and the 37th most visited museum in the world. Still in Florence, we find also the Pitti Palace Museum, the 7th most visited museum in Italy and the 84th most visited museum in the world.
UFFIZI GALLERY - FLORENCE
The Uffizi Gallery is one of the greatest museums in Italy and the world. The Uffizi hosts masterpieces by Italian and foreign artists from 13th to 18th century, such as Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio, along with Rubens, Rembrandt, DŸrer, Goya and many others.
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ACADEMY GALLERY - FLORENCE
The ACADEMY GALLERY ("Galleria dell'Accademia") is one of the best known museums in Florence because it houses famous sculptures by Michelangelo, including the "David", "The four prisoners" and the "Pieta of Palestina".
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PALAZZO PITTI - FLORENCE
It houses many important Florentine museums, such as the Palatina Gallery (with Raffaello’s, Andrea del Sarto’s, Caravaggio’s, Bronzino’s masterpieces and many more), the Silver Museum, the Modern Art Gallery and the Costumes Gallery. The Pitti Palace is famous also for its beautiful, wide gardens, the Boboli gardens.
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MUSEO DEL BARGELLO - FLORENCE
What the Uffizi offers in painting, the Bargello offers in sculpture and its courtyard and interiors contain some of the masterpieces belonging to Tuscan Renaissance.
