The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest museums in Italy and the world. In the birthplace of the Renaissance, in the heart of old Florence, the spacious palace houses the best works of such greatest artists as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian. The pearl of the collection is the richest collection of the famous royal Medici family, which marked the beginning of the life of one of the largest and most significant museums of European fine art. By the time in question, the Medici had established dominance over all of Tuscany. Cosimo I, a representative of the younger branch of the Medici clan, decided to build a building where all state institutions would be concentrated.