Uffizi Gallery head Eike Schmidt said the German ... by other Dutch masters but was evacuated to a nearby village when Italy joined the war in 1940. The Nazi art hoard that shocked the world ...

Occupying the first and second floors of the U-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi along the banks of the Arno River, the Uffizi Gallery was created by the Medici family at the end of the 16th century.

The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano)—the secret passageway over the Arno River in Florence that connects the Uffizi Galleries to the Pitti Palace—has reopened following an eight-year ...

Italy’s cultural trove has been attracting ... several separate cultural institutions into a conglomerate like the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, has just been completed. The dream was conceived ...