Day 2: Inside a City of Secrets

Michelangelo’s shadow looms large in Firenze. But how… why… where? A Florentine art history scholar tells all. The Uffizi – founded by the Medicis to display their countless treasures – reveals a few secrets of its own. Getting up close and personal with Botticelli’s Birth of Venus or Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo – in a frame designed by the Master himself – can’t help but touch your soul… and the artist lurking within. Walking by special Culturious appointment through the Vasari Corridor brings home Florentine power and privilege. High above the street, it allowed the Medicis (who else?) to cross from the Uffizi to Palazzo Pitti without mixing with the “rabble” below. Continue a chat about its own art collection later… with phrases picked up in a basic Italiano lesson… bellisimo!