Visitor boom in the first quarter of 2019 at the Uffizi Galleries

In the first four months of 2019, the Uffizi Galleries and Boboli Gardens experienced a boom in visitor numbers compared to last year and a sharp increase in attendance compared to 2018 in the period between Easter Friday (April 19) and May 1.

In the first 4 months, the increase was 12.3 percent, with +149,019 visitors, or 1,364,430 compared to 1,215,411 in 2018. Growth was particularly in Palazzo Pitti (+26.3%) and Boboli (+21.7%), with the Uffizi rising at +3%. As for the ’maxi bridge’, comparing with the same time of the year in 2018 there was an overall +3.6%, with +7,881 visitors, for a total of 231,703 compared to 223,822 last year (the number of presences at the Uffizi in particular rises, +9%). Considering the various holidays, the April 25 holiday went particularly well, with +34.6%, or +5191, for a total of 20,204 admissions, compared to 15,013 visitors in 2018, and also May Day, with 14,828 visitors, +2,715 in numerical terms compared to last year, or +22.4%.

There was also great success for the ticket formula of the Passepartout 3 Days subscription, which allows visitors to visit the Uffizi, Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens and the National Archaeological Museum of Florence and lasts three days, at a cost of 38 euros. In the first four months alone, 31,043 subscriptions were sold, equivalent to an 81.5 percent growth over the previous year.

“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 increasingly robust results,” commented the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt.

Image: the Western Corridor of the Uffizi Galleries.

Visitor boom in the first quarter of 2019 at the Uffizi Galleries

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