Uffizi

Uffizi. This is one of the
world’s great museums, and its single
best repository of Renaissance art. In
room after room, you’ll confront masterpiece
after masterpiece—including
Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation
(with an angel that could be Mona
Lisa’s brother), Michelangelo’s Holy
Family, Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of
Venus, Giotto’s Ognissanti Madonna,
and more. In Italian, uffizi means
offices, and that’s what Vasari
deigned this building to be in 1550.
But it’s come a long way, bambino.
These Uffizi will dazzle you. (Serious
art devotees may want to spend the
entire day here