Tuscany has a huge amount to offer the discerning tourist… too much to list in this article so we’ve stuck to our top three (in no particular order):
Visit the Galleria degli Uffizi
This is one of Italy’s finest museums of art and possibly one of its most important. If you like architecture then you must certainly take in its breathtaking horseshoe structure which is almost 500 years old and designed by Giorgio Vasari.
It has 45 rooms housing paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries, but masterpieces from other parts of Italy as well as four centuries’ worth of works from leading artists in Germany, Spain and Holland. You’ll also discover ancient Roman and 16th century sculpture.
Galleria degli Uffizi
Make sure you see:
- Botticelli’s Primavera and Birth of Venus
- Filippino Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels
- Titian’s Venus of Orbino
- Lots of other works, including from the early Masters Cimabue and Giotto, Early Rennaisance pioneers Fra Angelico and Masaccio, and Caravaggio and Rembrant.