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The Vasari Corridor was built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only five months at the time of the wedding between Francesco I de' Medici and Giovanna of Austria; it served to link up the Pitti Palace, where the Grand Duke resided, with the Uffizi (or offices) where he worked.
It is a covered walk, almost a kilometre in length, an overhead passageway that starts out from the West Corridor of the Gallery, heads towards the Arno and then, raised up by huge arches, follows the river as far as the Ponte Vecchio, which it crosses by passing on top of the shops. On the other side of the Arno, the corridor passes through the interior of the church of Santa Felicità, and finally reaches the Boboli gardens and the apartments in the Pitti Palace.
This detail of the decoration of the corridor represents mixed beings (hybrids) frequently created in the Mannerist period by painters of grotesques. They are part of the decoration of the made by Alessandro Allori and his workshop.
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