Rules for accessing the Vasari Corridor
ADMISSION
In order to visit the Vasari Corridor, it is necessary to have a ticket admitting the holder to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (the “Uffizi Gallery” proper).
The individual ticket categories listed below, which include the Vasari Corridor supplement, allow ticketholders to enter the Gallery of Statues and Paintings two hours beforehand so that they can visit the Gallery before entering the Corridor. This is because once visitors have started to walk down the Corridor, they are unable to return to the Uffizi (the Corridor is a one-way system only, leading from the Uffizi to the Pitti Palace):
Gallery of Statues and Paintings with Vasari Corridor supplement: Full price € 43.00, concessions € 2.00, free of charge;
5-day Pass with Vasari Corridor supplement: Full price € 58.00, free of charge.
“Vasari Corridor Supplement”: Holders of “Combined” and “Family” passes and visitors who already have a ticket to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings can access the Vasari Corridor by booking the supplement allowing access once only, as long as there is still room in their chosen time slot. Reservations are required, though no additional booking fee is charged:
Full price € 20.00, free of charge;
For holders of individual reduced-price tickets to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings only, the supplement costs € 2.00 (for holders of individual tickets only).
PURCHASING YOUR TICKET
The following applies to all transactions relating to the purchase of tickets that include admission to the Vasari Corridor:
No more than 5 tickets may be purchased at any one time, even for different date/time slots;
The above regulation applies to all ticket categories that include the Vasari Corridor supplement, including school group reservations as defined in D.M. 507-1997 (Art. 4, para. 3, letter f);
Tickets to the Boboli Garden admitting the holder to the Garden after visiting the Vasari Corridor may not be purchased in the course of a single transaction if the expected exit time from the Corridor is fewer than 1.5 hours before the Garden’s closing time.
The Vasari Corridor supplement may be purchased, as long as there is still room in the chosen time slot, by holders of:
Annual “Combined” or “Family” passes;
Individual tickets admitting to the Uffizi: Gallery of Statues and Paintings; Early morning; 5-Day pass;
For holders of individual tickets to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings:
The Vasari Corridor supplement must be booked for a time slot falling at least 2 hours after the time slot booked for entering the Gallery of Statues and Paintings in order to allow time to visit the Gallery before accessing the Corridor. Failing this, visitors will be required to fill in a form, available at the Museum entrance, in which they confirm that they are aware of the fact that they will have less time to visit the Gallery of Statues and Paintings and that they cannot return to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings once they have completed their visit to the Vasari Corridor, given that all tickets to the Gallerie degli Uffizi admit the holder to the Gallery once only unless otherwise specified.
The “Vasari Corridor Supplement” cannot be booked for a time slot earlier than the slot indicated on the ticket admitting the holder to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings.
Before confirming your purchase, please make sure that the time slot selected for the “Vasari Corridor Supplement” falls at least 30 minutes after the slot indicated on the ticket admitting you to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (in view of the time it takes to reach the Room D19 Meeting Point on the first floor of the Uffizi).
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Corridor is roughly 1 km long, plus an additional 100 mt. from the Buontalenti Grotto exit in the Boboli Garden to the Ammannati Courtyard in the Pitti Palace.
The Vasari Corridor visit lasts approximately 45 minutes. Visitors are not permitted to linger for any length of time during the visit.
The first group of the day enters the Vasari Corridor at 10.15 am. The last group of the day leaves at 4.35 pm.
Groups are made up of a total of 25 visitors (including carers, private guides etc.) plus two Gallerie degli Uffizi staff members who accompany the group for the duration of the visit.
Groups must stay together for both security and safety reasons. No visitor may leave the group. Visitors must comply with accompanying staff members' instructions at all times.
Given that the tour starts in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (Uffizi) and ends in the Boboli Garden-Pitti Palace, visitors should keep about their person all essential personal items, as well as coats and other garments they may require on leaving the Pitti Palace. Small umbrellas are permitted as long as they fit in a pocket or handbag.
Access with bulky items (e.g. suitcases of any size, backpacks, rucksacks, large umbrellas etc.) is strictly prohibited.
To retrieve items left in the Cloakroom or detained by staff at the metal detector, visitors should return by road to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (Uffizi) after their visit (on exiting the Pitti Palace, walk down Via Guicciardini to the Ponte Vecchio, cross the bridge, turn right onto Lungarno degli Archibusieri, enter the Piazzale degli Uffizi).
Audio-guides hired in the Museum should be handed in before entering the Vasari Corridor. Visitors failing to do so, on completing their visit to the Corridor, must return by road to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (on exiting the Pitti Palace, walk down Via Guicciardini to the Ponte Vecchio, cross the bridge, turn right onto Lungarno degli Archibusieri, enter the Piazzale degli Uffizi).
Gallerie degli Uffizi staff accompany visitor groups in the Corridor but do not offer guided tours.
The Vasari Corridor is accessible by visitors with reduced mobility or physical disabilities, as follows:
with their own wheelchair or walker;
Wheelchairs with an overall weight (i.e. including the user) of more than 230 kg or an overall length of more than 120 cm are not admitted to the Corridor;
Visitors with reduced mobility may use the courtesy wheelchairs and walkers provided by the Gallerie degli Uffizi (while stocks last):
use of these is free of charge, reservations and deposits are not required;
the wheelchairs and walkers may be picked up at Door 1;
visitors must show their ticket to the Vasari Corridor; staff will jot down the details of the ticket: i.e. ticket code, visitor’s name and time slot;
wheelchairs/walkers must be handed back to the Gallery staff accompanying the group at the end of the Vasari Corridor before leaving the premises.
Photography is permitted, but without professional equipment and solely for personal use;
Video footage is not permitted while visiting the Corridor;
Using images of the Vasari Corridor for promotional or advertising purposes is strictly forbidden without express prior authorisation.
ENTERING AND EXITING THE CORRIDOR
To visit the Vasari Corridor, visitors must be in possession of a ticket to the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (Uffizi) that includes the Vasari Corridor supplement.
Tickets will be inspected on entering the Uffizi.
The entrance to the Vasari Corridor is at the Room D19 Meeting Point on the first floor of the Uffizi.
Visitors must show up at the Meeting Point 5 minutes before their Corridor entry time slot. Failure to do so will entail loss of the right to enter the Corridor.
Tickets contain a link to a map with instructions on how to reach the Meeting Point. A QR Code allowing you to view the map is also available on panels inside the Uffizi.
Tickets will be inspected again at the entrance to the Vasari Corridor to ensure that they are valid for admission to the Corridor, so please make sure that you do not mislay your ticket.
On leaving the Vasari Corridor through a door by the Buontalenti Grotto in the Boboli Garden, groups are accompanied to the Ammannati Courtyard in the Pitti Palace without stopping by the Buontalenti Grotto or anywhere else in the Boboli Garden.
Once in the Ammannati Courtyard, visitors holding valid tickets to the Boboli Garden and/or the museums in the Pitti Palace may pursue their visit(s) by presenting their ticket at the appropriate entrances. All other visitors must head towards the exit and leave the premises.
It is not possible to walk back down the Vasari Corridor the way you came.
All visitors may use the café and sanitary facilities situated in the Ammannati Courtyard at the end of their visit.
The Vasari Corridor is open on “Free Admission Sundays” solely for visitors with reservations made on line (www.uffizi.it ticketing section) at no extra cost, as long as there is still room in the chosen time slot. The Vasari Corridor is not open on special open days when such days fall on a Monday.
