OUR TRIP TO ITALY WITH RICK STEVES
The morning of Day 6 was spent at the Uffizi Gallery and viewing the Renaissance art, works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and more.
I learned that the Uffizi building used to be an office building (uffizi is an archaic Italian word for offices). I had always thought that the Uffizi was named after some nobleman or monarch.
Built in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici, the U-shaped structure was designed to house administrative and judiciary offices, not an art gallery.
