Secret Florence passage that Medici family used to move safely reopens to public

The Corridoio Vasariano or Vasari Corridor in Florence, central Italy (Luca Moggi/LaPresse via AP)

Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after an eight-year restoration project.

The corridor, named after the Renaissance architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who designed it, is some 750 metres (820 yards) long and for centuries was only accessible to dukes and lords.