Vasari Corridor
The Vasari Corridor is a 16th-century elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. It was designed by, and named for, architect Giorgio Vasari to allow Duke Cosimo I de' Medici to move undisturbed between both palaces.Photo: MenkinAlRire, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Luca Aless, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, Italy
- Also known as: “Vasari Corridor Florence” and “Vasari Corridor in Florence”
Photo: VladV5, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Uffizi Gallery and Piazza della Signoria.
Uffizi Gallery
Museum
Photo: Arek N., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best-known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. Uffizi Gallery is situated 180 metres northeast of Vasari Corridor.
Piazza della Signoria
Square
Photo: Giuseppe Zocchi, Public domain.
Piazza della Signoria is a W-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Central Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria is situated 300 metres northeast of Vasari Corridor.
Loggia dei Lanzi
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on the south corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery, and diagonally to the east the Palazzo della Signoria, the political center of the city. Loggia dei Lanzi is situated 250 metres northeast of Vasari Corridor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Statuto and Monteripaldi.
Vasari Corridor
- Categories: art collection, passageway, corridor, building, tourism, historic site, and tourist attraction
- Location: Florence, Florence, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.76746° or 43° 46′ 3″ northLongitude
11.25362° or 11° 15′ 13″ eastOpen location code
8FMHQ783+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1344547176OpenStreetMap feature
building=noOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q913058
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Vasari Corridor” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vasari-korridor”
- Arabic: “ممر فاساري”
- Belarusian: “Калідор Вазары”
- Bulgarian: “Коридор Вазари”
- Bulgarian: “Коридор на Вазари”
- Catalan: “Corredor vasarià”
- Chinese: “瓦萨利走廊”
- Croatian: “Vasarijev hodnik”
- Czech: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Czech: “Vasariho koridor”
- Dutch: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Dutch: “Vasaripassage”
- Finnish: “Corridoio vasariano”
- Finnish: “Vasarin käytävä”
- French: “Corridor de Vasari”
- German: “Vasarikorridor”
- Hebrew: “מסדרון וזארי”
- Hungarian: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Hungarian: “Vasari-folyosó”
- Italian: “Corridoio vasariano”
- Italian: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Italian: “Gallerie degli Uffizi - Corridoio Vasariano”
- Italian: “Visita al Corridoio vasariano”
- Japanese: “ヴァザーリの回廊”
- Korean: “바사리 통로”
- Korean: “바사리 회랑”
- Lithuanian: “Vazario koridorius”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Norwegian: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Portuguese: “Corredor Vasari”
- Russian: “Коридор Вазари”
- Serbian: “Vazarijev koridor”
- Serbian: “Вазари коридор у Фиренци”
- Serbian: “Вазаријев коридор (Фиренца)”
- Serbian: “Вазаријев коридор у Фиренци”
- Serbian: “Вазаријев коридор Фиренца”
- Serbian: “Вазаријев коридор”
- Slovenian: “Vasarijev koridor”
- Spanish: “Corredor vasariano”
- Turkish: “Vasari Koridoru”
- Ukrainian: “Коридор Вазарі”
- Vlaams: “Corridoio Vasariano”
- Welsh: “Coridor Vasari”
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Highlights include Torre dei Mannelli and Belvedere sull’Arno.
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