{"id":49429,"date":"2015-01-30T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/uffizi.html"},"modified":"2015-01-30T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:46:16","slug":"uffizi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/uffizi.html","title":{"rendered":"Uffizi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabulous art gallery which I enjoyed touring a few years back. And now, I guess, I can tour it whenever I want.<\/p>\n<p>Your trivia for today: the Uffizi was the building erected next to the palace for the Medicis, housing the various magistrates and bureaucrats of Florence and Tuscany. The word lis a cognate with &quot;Office.&quot; The Medicis stashed their artwork in the office spaces, and the collection remained even after that regime fell.<\/p>\n<p>More here: <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uffizi\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uffizi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Google Art Project<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>250 years ago, in 1765, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was officially opened to the public<\/b>. Have you ever been to this art museum, one of the oldest and most famous in the world?<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#39;t, you definitely should! And in the meantime, you can <b>take a virtual peak at the splendid galleries<\/b> with  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23StreetView\">#StreetView<\/a> at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/d9p0Iq\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/d9p0Iq<\/a><br \/>Enjoy the tour!  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23museweb\">#museweb<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23art\">#art<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23museum\">#museum<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Uffizi\">#Uffizi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/110951061820672947345\/albums\/6109849858918620513\/6109849866053130626'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-DzNWNWCs1to\/VMqMFPEQmYI\/AAAAAAAAgsA\/ItqKodCaapU\/output_4TNGRl.gif?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZZ8tmXuasCk'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabulous art gallery which I enjoyed touring a few years back. And now, I guess, I can tour it whenever I want. Your trivia for today: the Uffizi was the building erected next to the palace for the Medicis, housing the various magistrates and bureaucrats of Florence and Tuscany. The word lis a cognate with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/uffizi.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uffizi!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[601,816,815,792,817],"class_list":["post-49429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-art","tag-museum","tag-museweb","tag-streetview","tag-uffizi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/output_4TNGRl.gifimgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/uffizi-with-a-view.html","url_meta":{"origin":49429,"position":0},"title":"Uffizi with a view","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-May-11 6:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Arno River from the Vasarian Corridor off of the Uffizi Gallery (large windows to photograph through courtesy of Benito Mussolini).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel - Italy 2011&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Travel - Italy 2011","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel\/travel-italy-2011"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21108,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/tweets-from-2011-05-30.html","url_meta":{"origin":49429,"position":1},"title":"Tweets from 2011-05-30","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-May-11 12:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Perseo Gelateria at Piazza della Signora (Firenze) was faboo chocolate OMG rich and dark. 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