The Uffizi Gallery, Italy's greatest art gallery was built between 1560 - 1580 to house offices for Duke Cosimo I. The architect Varsari used iron as reinforcement which enabled his successor Buontalenti to create an almost continuous wall of glass on the upper storey. This was used as a gallery for Francesco I to display the Medici Art Treasures. The Uffizi Gallery houses works by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Giotto, and shows in a chronological order the different periods from Gothic Art, through the Early Renaissance, on to High Renaissance and Mannerism to later works.
Duomo Skyline	Piazza della Signoria
Baptistry	Uffizi Gallery
Ponte Vecchio	River Arno