Florence's Uffizi art gallery will this year play host to an outdoor cinema, for the first time in its history. There will be seats for up to 285 people to watch the films screened as part of a summer festival in the Renaissance city. And best of all, the whole thing is free of charge.

Florence mayor Dario Nardella announced the project together with Eike Schmidt, the gallery's director, on Monday. "It's the first time that the Piazzale degli Uffizi will host such an event, in a unique combination of art, architecture and film," commented Nardella. He also said the screenings at Italy's most popular art gallery would allow the city to "reappropriate" public spaces in Florence and "not leave them only for tourists".