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The Uffizi reopens, Schmidt 'calls' the students

2021-01-22T18:16:46.320Z


Almost 800 visitors. Surprisingly, Minister Azzolina (ANSA)


FLORENCE - Almost 800 visitors took advantage of the reopening of the Uffizi to enjoy the masterpieces kept by the Florentine gallery after 77 days of closure, the longest since the Second World War.

On 21 January at 8.30 sharp it was the director Eike Schmidt who opened the large wooden door that overlooks the Uffizi square, behind Piazza della Signoria.

Many of the first visitors to enter were Florentines.

"It is very important that the museums reopen - commented a tour guide of the city -. For me it is moving to be here again, it is like being at home. Culture in Italy is fundamental, we hope that this cursed epidemiological curve will allow us to keep museums open ".

In a room on the second floor, another Florentine visitor explains that she has come "to review my favorite works that I had not seen for a long time".

In addition to the residents of the capital and those who live in the other Tuscan municipalities - the region is a yellow zone, so you can move around freely within it - Schmidt also made a curious invitation to the students.

"I would like to address a special invitation to young people up to 18 who also have free admission - he said -: if you really have to 'do gallows' (a typical Florentine expression that indicates those who skip school, ed) do it here in our museum. Here, however, you learn a lot. And the same thing also applies to the Boboli Gardens, the traditional place of the Florentine gallows. This is not only a beautiful place, it is also a place of knowledge and identity ".

Schmidt then sent all the Tuscans "who can come for the last two days of the exhibition dedicated to art and science, with a masterpiece painting that will then return to London next week", recalling that the exhibition is extended until May " dedicated to empresses, matrons, freedmen and many of the secrets of the women of the Roman Empire ".

A surprise visit to the Uffizi, that of Lucia Azzolina.

The Minister of Education, accompanied by the President of Tuscany Eugenio Giani, with whom he had had an announced meeting and by Schmidt himself, visited some rooms on the second floor, pausing in particular in the Botticelli one, in front of the painting depicting the Birth of Venus it's spring. 

Source: ansa

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