Record number of visitors to the Uffizi Galleries for the August bank holiday bridge

Record numbers of visitors to the Uffizi Galleries on this long August bank holiday: from Thursday, August 15 to Sunday, August 18, 2019, more than 80 thousand admissions were reached between the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.

On the day of Ferragosto alone, there was a 5.2 percent growth over last year: about 17 thousand tickets were taken away.

The peak number of visitors was recorded at the Uffizi Gallery of Statues and Paintings with 9,609 admissions, while at Palazzo Pitti there were 2269 visitors and at the Boboli Garden 4933.

"Our numbers are still growing, and the ones to be increasingly visited are the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens: so the policy of decentralizing our visitors to these spaces to rebalance flows in the Uffizi complex is working and continues to yield significant results. Thanks to Tuesday evening openings and an improved booking mechanism, admissions are distributed in different time slots throughout the day. This improves not only the overall visitor figures, but above all the quality of the visit of those who choose to visit the Uffizi," commented the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt.

Record number of visitors to the Uffizi Galleries for the August bank holiday bridge

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