Vasari Corridor 'open in 2018' (2)

(ANSA) - Florence, August 17 - Uffizi Gallery Director Eike Schmidt told ANSA a year from his appointment Wednesday that he would like to get the Vasari Corridor opened to all the gallery's visitors on the 25th anniversary of a Cosa Nostra bomb outrage near the iconic Florentine gallery, on May 27, 2018. "On the anniversary of that huge tragedy, we could launch a great message of courage against the mafia: the message of a museum and a city which are opening and are not afraid of organised crime," he said. The via dei Georgofili bombing was carried out by by the Sicilian Mafia very early in the morning of 27 May 1993, killing five people. It was part of a wider Mafia campaign of bombing against heritage sites which killed 10 another five people in Milan and damaged two historic Rome churches.