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Day 5: Riding Lesson and Tuscan Country Lunch
Day 6: Florence Uffizi Gallery Visit and Farewell Tuscan Dinner
The Medici's family, untiring collectors, constantly enriched the Gallery: amongst the most considerable bequests, we have to mention those due to the patrimony left by Vittoria della Rovere (1631), Ferdinando II's wife, and to the acquisitions made by the Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici (1617-1675), thanks to which it was possibile to lay the foundations of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe "Drawings and Printings Cabinet" at the ground-floor of the Gallery, where once the royal Court Theatre, built up by Bernardo Buontalenti, was situated) and of the collection of Self-Portraits that nowadays can be admired along the Corridoio Vasariano, that connects the Uffizi Gallery to the royal Palazzo Pitti. The afternoon is free.
Day 7: DepartureYou will be transferred to the airport or rail station.
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Today you continue your Tuscan adventure with a morning of horseback riding in the countryside. Your driver guide will take you to Pontassieve not far from Florence. Here you will meet with a riding instructor who will assess your riding ability and plan an appropriate route. You will have a relaxing ride through the beautiful hills cultivated with wines and olive trees.
This morning you will be met at the hotel by your guide who will take you to the Uffizi Gallery for a tour.
The Palace, started by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 and completed by Buontalenti, who planned here the celebreted Tribuna, was devised by Cosimo I de' Medici as the new center of the administrative State offices ("Uffizi"), for which Palazzo Vecchio, that faces Piazza della Signoria too, had become too small. Francesco I, Cosimo's son, started the palace's conversion into a museum, and in 1581 closed the second floor Gallery with big windows and collected some of the grand-ducal collections, composed of ancient statues, medals, jewellery, weapons, paintings and scientific instruments.
