Museums: 21 thousand visitors Uffizi, Pitti, Boboli in six days – Entertainment

(ANSA) – FLORENCE, 10 MAY – In six days, from 4 to 9 May, there were over 21,000 visitors to the Uffizi museum (11,620), to the Boboli Gardens (7,791) and to Palazzo Pitti (1,981). This was announced by the museum complex of the Uffizi Galleries, which speaks of a balance “that has far exceeded the previous two reopening in January and June”. The highest peak in attendance at the weekend with the obligation to book for access to the museum: on Saturday 2,833 visitors entered the Uffizi, on Sunday there were 3,116. “Many bookings have been registered, with an average – in continuous growth – of over a thousand a day for the whole of 2021. These are mainly Italians, even if there is no shortage of bookings from foreign tourists for the next few months”. “These are numbers – comments the director Eike Schmidt – that put us in a good mood because they testify how, in this delicate moment of recovery, many are thirsty for art and culture”. (HANDLE).