The Uffizi Gallery Is Damaged by a Bomb

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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.

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Just after 1:00 a.m. on May 27, 1993, a five-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. The...

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