An ice cream shop opens inside the Uffizi. Starting tomorrow, visitors can try ice cream in eight artisanal flavors

The Uffizi is probably the first museum to equip itself with an ice cream shop. Opening tomorrow on the terrace of the famous museum in Florence is an ice cream shop that will allow all visitors to eat ice cream by choosing from eight flavors, the great classics of the artisanal tradition: cream, chocolate, fiordilatte, pistachio, hazelnut, wild berries, lemon, and strawberry. Opening tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in the presence of director Eike Schmidt, already photographed savoring a cup.

“Although summer this year seems to be planning to show up considerably late,” said the director, “we will not be caught unprepared. We are the only museum in Florence that is equipped with a real artisanal gelato shop. While waiting for the great Buontalenti ice cream shop, which will soon open its doors in the Medici garden of Boboli, as early as tomorrow all citizens and tourists will be able to taste the exquisite ice creams of the Uffizi.”

After all, as is well known, ice cream was supposedly born in Florence: who invented it, according to one tradition, was Bernardo Buontalenti (Florence, 1531 - 1608), the great architect of Florence in the second half of the 16th century, while according to others it was the legendary butcher Ruggeri who allegedly prepared a sorbet as part of a cooking competition called by the Medici in the 1630s (and Buontalenti would, if anything, have perfected Ruggeri’s idea, moreover producing the first ice cream maker in history). However it came about, ice cream remains one of the spearheads of Florentine cuisine, and Florentine ice cream makers are among the best in the world, and who knows if Uffizi ice cream will continue the glories of this long tradition.

An ice cream shop opens inside the Uffizi. Starting tomorrow, visitors can try ice cream in eight artisanal flavors

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