"Uffizi - got to be this one" Florence Tourist Trap Tip by kenyneo

Well , forget what the book or travel guide said about the so called Museum with the most 1st class art pieces per inch in the world. yes no doubt there are master pieces from Botticelli etc etc but there is a catch there ....the museum is so small and so many paintings are all squezzed into a room.

Uffizi - accroding to my dear friend Rene ( one of Florence most noted celebrity ) means office , thus its was never meant to be a museum.

The whole area is dwarfed by British Museum and the Louvre anytime. In Louvre and British museum you never have to queue up for so long and you can appreciate those paintings with enough oxigen.

The exterior is also not very expensive and properly cared for. And the queue is horribly long. I blame it on the administrations inability to relocate to a bigger place and their inability to create more entrance ( but after all , its so small )

If you dont make reservation, dont trying to queue up unless you can turn up like two hours before the museum opens.

( my case- my dear celebrity friend booked for me , I forgot and went to PISA , but dutifully waited for 1 hour the next day before I walked away )

- I heard my VT fren said that if you go like at 6pm ..there will be no crowd and its also free