Uffizi Gallery and Florence Free City Walking Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Start with a two-hour guided tour to the Uffizi. Your guide will begin with a little history of the Uffizi Gallery and then proceed to explain how it came to be a gallery. See and learn about the paintings of the Birth of Venus by Botticelli, the Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci, and the only panel painting in the world by Michelangelo. Listen to your guide and be fascinated by the secrets, legends, and interesting bits of information behind the many paintings being displayed in this gallery. The guide will also answer any questions that you may have.

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Piazza della Repubblica

  Later in the evening join for the walking tour. From the point of the meeting, the guide will give you an insight of the history of this Renaissance city and how this incredible cultural movement of the Renaissance transformed not only Florence but eventually the rest of Europe. The guide will start off with Piazza Della Republica, the main square of Florence that marks the center of the City. After a little talk of history & the changes of Piazza Republica since its origin, you will walk straight to the marvelous piece of art, the Piazza Della Duomo. A showstopper of Filippo Brunelleschi, Giotto, Arnolfo & Francesco Talenti.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3

  Walk passing the Duomo Square the guide will lead you straight through the old buildings and some of the historical landmarks of Florence to Palazzo Vecchio, where the David’s’ sculpture (the original is in the Galleria dell'Accademia) by Michelangelo is placed outside the Palazzo Vecchio as a symbol of the Republic's defiance of the tyrannical Medici.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4

  Afterward, as you walk past the Palazzo Vecchio, the guide will explain you about the Uffizi Gallery, one of the greatest museums of the world, and then you will reach the most famous old bridge of Florence known as “Ponte Vecchio”.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 5

  Your next stop is Palazzo Pitti, the enormous palace of Florence's largest architectural monuments of Filippo Brunelleschi and the household of Pitti Family, later of the Medici’s’.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 6

  Finally, the guide will talk you through the artists, architects, thinkers, and political figures who led to the Renaissance and were born on the fertile soil in and around Florence, within the same century. The tour takes about one and a half hours, enough time to help you understand the uniqueness and beauty of Florence city.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• The tour operator guarantees "Reserve-the-line" tours even during peak season, except in the event of delays or strikes by the museum management
• Walking Tour is subject to favourable weather conditions. If cancelled due to poor weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date.
• Pets are not allowed

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