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Corridor of power: the Medicis’ cross-river Florence walkway opens to public

Tourists can now use 16th-century passageway over the Arno, whose windows were enlarged when Hitler visited

Over history, dukes, dictators and Europe’s illustrious elite have walked through the Vasari corridor, a narrow, 750-metre-long elevated passageway crossing the Arno River in Florence.

Now visitors to the Tuscan capital can follow in their footsteps when the newly restored landmark, which connects the Uffizi Galleries with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli gardens, opens on Saturday to the general public for the first time.