Rules for accessing the Vasari Corridor
All ticket categories that include the special supplement enabling access to the Vasari Corridor permit ticket holders to enter the Gallery of Statues and Paintings (Uffizi) 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).
Purchasing Your Ticket
The following applies to all transactions relating to the purchase of tickets that include the Vasari Corridor supplement:
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 less than 1.5 hours before the Garden’s closing time.
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 or to halt 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.
Gallerie degli Uffizi staff accompany visitor groups in the Corridor but do not offer guided tours.
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 for viewing the map is also available on panels inside the Uffizi.
Tickets will be inspected at the entrance to the Vasari Corridor to ensure that they are valid for admission to the Corridor.
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 accessible to disabled visitors.
The Vasari Corridor is open upon reservation in compliance with the availability of the chosen time slot on ‘free admission’ or special open days when those days do not coincide with a Monday.
