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Today, transformed from a royal palace to a museum, the Palazzo Pitti is owned by the Italian state. Once under the management of the Polo Museale Fiorentino, an institution which administered twenty museums, since 2015 it has been a department of the Gallerie degli Uffizi , as a separate and independent structure within the Ministry of Culture ...
The Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, was built as a secret pathway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti via the Uffizi Galleries and the Ponte Vecchio. It’s now open to the public ...
Heading south from the Duomo there is the political and cultural center of Florence with Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery nearby, near which are the Bargello Museum and the Basilica of the Holy Cross. Crossing the Ponte Vecchio we arrive at the Oltrarno district with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens.
Boboli Gardens Amphitheatre, viewed from the Palazzo Pitti Bathing Venus by Giambologna as seen in the third chamber of the Buontalenti Grotto. The Gardens, directly behind the Pitti Palace, the main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, are some of the first and most familiar formal 16th-century Italian gardens.
Today home to the Uffizi Library Teatro Mediceo: 1586: In today's Uffizi, in Classicist style, later dismantled Amphitheater of Boboli: 1637: At Palazzo Pitti, still used today for special events: Teatro Niccolini (Teatro del Cocomero) 1648: c. 500: The first "modern" theatre in the city. Reopened in 2015. Teatro della Pergola: 1656: 999
The garden at the Villa di Castello, created for Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was the first in Italy by Niccolò Tribolo, who later designed the Boboli Gardens for Cosimo's Florentine new residence, the Palazzo Pitti. Each significant member of the Medici family owned an estate. The Duke moved from house to house.