Bomb Damages Florence’s Uffizi Gallery
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Government and Politics, Crime, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
- Curriculum: Italian History, 20th & 21st Century European History
- Geographical Location: Italy
- Date: May 27, 1993
Article abstract: The Uffizi Gallery blast was one of several suspected Mafia bombings that occurred in response to the Italian government’s crackdown on organized crime.
The Uffizi Gallery Is Bombed
Just after 1 a.m. on May 27, 1993, a two-hundred-pound bomb concealed in a stolen Fiat exploded, gravely damaging the west wing of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The car bomb killed five people, destroyed a part of the five-hundred-year-old structure, damaged the Corridoio Vasariano, and weakened the Buontalenti staircase, the gallery’s old exit....
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