The Uffizi

I went to Florence with my Aunt and my mom and dad. We went to the gallery Uffizi, which means offices because the Medici family, the richest family in Florence had there offices there. It has lots of paintings in it from very famous artists. It has the very famous The Birth of Venus and Primavera painted by Botticelli. All of the paintings are very old. My favorite two paintings are The Birth of Venus and Primavera. I like the three godesses dancing in Primavera and also I like Primavera because I was born in Primavera or Spring. To give you a example on how big the Uffizi is it would take a day to look at all the paintings. We got tired and stopped at almost two hours. There is the Ponte Vechio or Old Bridge with a lot of shops on it now, but when the Medici lived they used it to cross the Arno river without having to walk with the common people. The Medici even had secret passageways to go to church and see a service without the common people seeing them or being near them. The Medici family ruled all of Tuscany. Sienese and Florentines don't like eachother still today because a long time ago Siena won a battle against Florence. I really like the Uffizi, but you get really tired of walking and you can't take too much in.