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Medici Dukes

Medici Dukes

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Medici Dukes tour overview

In the early 16th century, a member of the House of Medici was elected Pope Leo X; after his death, his cousin Giulio was elected Pope Clement VII. The Medici Popes paved the way to the former bankers to become a dynasty: Dukes of Florence and then Grand Dukes of Tuscany, the Medici dominated the region until 1737.

Since 1540, the Medici Dukes lived in Palazzo Vecchio, the ancient town hall, symbol of the political power in Florence. Here is where our tour starts, with the apartments of Cosimo de Medici and Eleonora di Toledo, the Duchesse. The apartments were decorated by Giorgio Vasari and his workshop, together with the huge Hall of the 500, to celebrate Cosimo and his family. We will also see the Studiolo di Francesco I, the heir of Cosimo, who was more interested in science and alchemy than in politics. Not all of the rooms in Palazzo Vecchio were changed by the Medici Dukes, some of them still have the original decoration of when Florence was a free Republic, we’ll have a chance to see the room from where Machiavelli worked as chancellor and also the death mask of Dante Alighieri, the most famous Italian poet.

With a short walk, we will then reach the Medici Chapels, where lie the bodies of the Medici Dukes. This amazing museum features the magnificent Chapel of the Princes, decorated by mosaics of semiprecious stones, something you won’t see anywhere else but in Florence, but also the tombs of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici in the New Sacristy, a room designed by Michelangelo which contains seven statues by the master of sculpture. You will hear the story of Michelangelo hiding from the Medici family, after helping the Republic of Florence to resist against the return of the rulers.

 

Highlights

  • Michelozzo – Palazzo Vecchio Courtyard
  • Giorgio Vasari – Hall of the 500
  • Giorgio Vasari – Studiolo di Francesco I
  • Michelangelo – Genius of Victory
  • Bronzino – Deposition
  • Unknown – Dante Alighieri death mask
  • Donatello – Judith and Holofernes
  • Opificio Delle Pietre Dure – Chapel of the Princes
  • Michelangelo – New Sacristy

 

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Tour features

Pricing € 180
Duration 3 hours
Language English
Tour type Private
Pick-up Florence – Piazza Della Signoria
Drop-off Florence – Piazza di San Lorenzo
Venues
  • Palazzo Vecchio (tickets: € 10.00, age 18-25 or over 65 € 8.00, age 0-17 free)
  • Medici Chapels (tickets € 6.00, age 18-25 € 3.00, age 0-17 free)
Included
  • Local professional guide
  • Private tour
Not included
  • Entrance tickets
  • Any other personal expense

Schedule

We schedule the tour upon request.

Based on the opening days/hours of the venues involved, we can provide the tour every day in the morning.

 

Additional info

The tour doesn’t involve a lot of walking, however it is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
ID document is required to obtain ticket price reductions for children. This is mandatory (a photocopy is accepted)

 

How is our Medici Dukes Tour different?

Well, this is an easy question: not many (if any at all) offer a Medici Dukes tour out there. This is very strange when you consider that almost everything in Florence Italy has something to do with the House of Medici. Any Florence Day Tours you will attend during your stay will include a mention of the Medici family, but this tour, in particular, is focused on the history and the biographies of the members of the family ruling the city. We think the Medici are so important that we offer Medici Dukes Tour along with another representing the prologue: Medici Bankers, focused on the 15th century when the family was ruling Florence unofficially. The traveler who wants to have a complete experience can join the two half day tours in a complete Full Day Medici Tour.

Private tour

This is a private Medici Dukes Tour. You won’t join any large or small group of tourists, it’s meant for you, your family and/or your friends. The Florence Tour Guide will be at your service for the duration of the tour, assisting you in buying skip the line tickets for the Accademia and explaining to you whatever you want to know.

Fair price

Is our Medici Dukes Tour expensive for you? Any agency will price a private 3 hours Florence Walking Tour no less than € 400. Here you can hire directly a local genuine Florence Tour Guide, so you save any agency or middlemen fees, which means paying up to 60% less. The tour is certainly expensive if you travel alone, but it’s as low as € 36/person for a family of five, and if you travel with another family of friends, it gets even lower: much less than any 3-hour Florence Day Tour offered online and much better than any shared group tour.

 

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    Entrance to Palazzo Vecchio
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    Medici Chapels - dome
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    New Sacristy - Tomb of Lorenzo
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    Medici coat of arms in the Chapel of the Princes
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    Chapel of the Princes - Main altar
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    Chapel of the Princes - ceiling
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    New Sacristy - Tomb of Giuliano
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    Medici coat of arms in Palazzo Vecchio courtyard
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    Hall of the 500
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    Studiolo di Francesco I - ceiling

 

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Full Day Medici

Full day Medici

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Full Day Medici tour overview

This tour combines Medici Bankers and Medici Dukes for a full day comprehensive tour on the history of the Medici family.

Thanks to their wealthy banking activity, the House of Medici became the richest and most powerful family in Italy. Later on, they also dominated the holy city of Rome, with two Popes in the early 16th century. The Medici Popes paved the way to the family to become a dynasty: Dukes of Florence and then Grand Dukes of Tuscany, the Medici dominated Florence until 1737.

Full Day Medici tour starts at the San Marco Museum, once a Dominican convent built with the exclusive sponsorship of the Medici Bank. We will discover the architecture designed by Michelozzo and the collection of Renaissance paintings and frescoes by Fra Angelico, a friar who embraced the new trend in arts, leading to the dramatic evolution of religious art. You will hear the story of Antonino Pierozzi, the friar who dared to take position against Cosimo the Elder, but also the story of Girolamo Savonarola, the friar who ruled Florence after the fall of the wealthy bankers.

The second stage of the Tour is in Palazzo Medici Riccardi, home of the Medici in Florence. You will be stunned by the difference between the austere facade and the magnificent chapel inside, decorated by Benozzo Gozzoli with the famous Journey of the Magi fresco, a symbol of the power of the Medici.

We will then visit the Basilica di San Lorenzo, the parish church of the Medici, completely re-built by Filippo Brunelleschi, again sponsored by the rulers of the Renaissance. His masterpiece, the Old Sacristy, contains many of the tombs of the Medici bankers.

With a short walk, we will then reach the Medici Chapels, where lie the bodies of the Medici Dukes. This amazing museum features the magnificent Chapel of the Princes, decorated by mosaics of semiprecious stones, something you won’t see anywhere else but in Florence, but also the tombs of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici in the New Sacristy, a room designed by Michelangelo which contains seven statues by the master of sculpture. You will hear the story of Michelangelo hiding from the Medici family, after helping the Republic of Florence to resist against the return of the rulers.

We take a break for lunch, before moving, as the Medici family did, to Palazzo Vecchio.

In 1540, the Medici Dukes left Palazzo Medici to move to Palazzo Vecchio, the ancient town hall, symbol of the political power in Florence. We’ll see the apartments of Cosimo de Medici and Eleonora di Toledo, the Duchesse, decorated by Giorgio Vasari and his workshop, together with the huge Hall of the 500, to celebrate Cosimo and his family. We will also see the Studiolo di Francesco I, the heir of Cosimo, who was more interested in science and alchemy than in politics. Not all of the rooms in Palazzo Vecchio were changed by the Medici Dukes, some of them still have the original decoration of when Florence was a free Republic, we’ll have a chance to see the room from where Machiavelli worked as chancellor and also the death mask of Dante Alighieri, the most famous Italian poet.

 

Highlights

  • Fra Angelico – Tabernacolo dei Linaioli
  • Fra Angelico – Annunciation
  • Domenico del Ghirlandaio – Last Supper
  • Benozzo Gozzoli – Journey of the Magi
  • Donatello – Pulpit of the Resurrection
  • Andrea del Verrocchio – Tomb of Piero de Medici “The Gouty”
  • Filippo Brunelleschi – Old Sacristy
  • Opificio Delle Pietre Dure – Chapel of the Princes
  • Michelangelo – New Sacristy
  • Michelozzo – Palazzo Vecchio Courtyard
  • Giorgio Vasari – Hall of the 500
  • Giorgio Vasari – Studiolo di Francesco I
  • Michelangelo – Genius of Victory
  • Bronzino – Deposition
  • Unknown – Dante Alighieri death mask
  • Donatello – Judith and Holofernes

 

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Tour features

Pricing € 300
Duration 6 hours
Language English
Tour type Private
Pick-up Florence – Piazza San Marco
Drop-off Florence – Piazza Della Signoria
Venues
  • San Marco Museum (tickets: € 4.00, age 18-25 € 2.00, age 0-17 free)
  • Palazzo Medici Riccardi (tickets € 7.00, age 6-11 € 4.00, age 0-5 free)
  • Basilica di San Lorenzo (tickets € 4.50, age 0-11 free)
  • Medici Chapels (tickets € 6.00, age 18-25 € 3.00, age 0-17 free)
  • Palazzo Vecchio (tickets: € 10.00, age 18-25 or over 65 € 8.00, age 0-17 free)
Included
  • Local professional guide
  • Private tour
Not included
  • Entrance tickets
  • Any other personal expense

Tour Schedule

We schedule the tour upon request.

Based on the opening days/hours of the venues involved, we can provide the tour in the following days:

  • Monday (except for 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month)
  • Tuesday
  • Friday
  • Saturday
  • Sunday (except for the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays of the month)

Additional info

The tour involves some walking, it is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
The Basilica di San Lorenzo, as any other church in Florence, requires tourists to be appropriately dressed. Make sure your shoulders and knees are covered
Videos and pictures are not allowed in the Basilica di San Lorenzo
ID document is required to obtain ticket price reductions for children. This is mandatory (a photocopy is accepted)

 

How is our Full Day Medici Tour different?

Well, this is an easy question: not many (if any at all) offer a Full Day Medici tour in Florence. This is very strange when you consider that almost everything in Florence Italy has something to do with the House of Medici. Any Florence Day Tours you will attend during your stay will include a mention of the Medici family, but this tour, in particular, is focused on the history and the biographies of the members of the family ruling the city. We think the Medici are so important that we offer two half-day tours: Medici Bankers and Medici Dukes. The traveler who wants to have a complete experience can join the two half-day tours into this complete Full Day Medici Tour.

Private tour

This is a private Full Day Medici Tour. You won’t join any large or small group of tourists, it’s meant for you, your family and/or your friends. The Florence Tour Guide will be at your service for the duration of the tour, assisting you in buying skip the line tickets for the Museums and explaining to you whatever you want to know.

Fair price

Is our Full Day Medici Tour expensive for you? First of all, you are saving € 30 by joining two half-day tours together. Any agency will price a private 6 hours Florence Walking Tour no less than € 800. Here you can hire directly a local genuine Florence Tour Guide, so you save any agency or middlemen fees, which means paying up to 60% less. The tour is certainly expensive if you travel alone, but it’s as low as € 66/person for a family of five, and if you travel with another family of friends, it gets even lower: much less than any 6-hour Florence Day Tour offered online and much better than any shared group tour.

 

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    Medici coat of arms
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    Palazzo Medici
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    Cloister of San Marco
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    Palazzo Medici courtyard
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    San Marco refectory
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    Medici coat of arms in the Chapel of the Princes
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    Chapel of the Princes - Main altar
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    Chapel of the Princes - ceiling
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    New Sacristy - Tomb of Giuliano
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    Medici coat of arms in Palazzo Vecchio courtyard
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    Hall of the 500
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    Studiolo di Francesco I - ceiling

 

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Florence in a day

florence in a day

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

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Florence in a day overview

This tour combines the Uffizi Gallery Tour with the Walking Tour + David allowing you to see all the highlights of Florence in one day.

The tour starts in Piazza Santa Croce, in front of the Gothic Basilica. We will speak about the facade of the church and the various destinations of the square, moving on to Borgo de Greci, a small street where you will be surprised to know that you are walking in an ancient Roman amphitheater, where gladiators fought for their life and Christians were tortured. After admiring the place where Leonardo da Vinci painted his famous Monna Lisa, we will move to Piazza Della Signoria, the political center of Florence, filed with huge statues made to celebrate the Medici family. You will see Palazzo Vecchio, the Duke’s Palace but also the place where illustrious citizens, including a Medici, were imprisoned, where the Archbishop of Pisa was hanged and where Savonarola was burned at stake. The tour approaches the Uffizi building and Ponte Vecchio, the ancient bridge on the river Arno, filled with jewelry shops and crossed by the private passage of the Medici: the Vasari Corridor. You will see the damage Florence suffered during World War II before getting to the Loggia del Porcellino and to the church of Orsanmichele, a place dense of history where art, religion, money and power are inextricably connected. We will visit Piazza Della Repubblica, the ancient heart of Florence, to follow up with the Duomo complex, the religious center of the city, admiring wonders like Giotto’s Bell Tower and Brunelleschi’s Dome and entering the huge church to see the largest fresco ever made. We will then visit the Accademia Gallery, to see Michelangelo’s David, talking about the symbology of the statue and where it connects to the history of Florence.

After a well-deserved lunch break, we enter in the Uffizi Gallery visiting the Medieval rooms, to see works by Giotto and Cimabue, that prepared the ground for the Renaissance. Then we’ll see the International Gothic style with the Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano, before introducing the early Renaissance and the rise of the Medici family with Cosimo the Elder. You will have a chance to understand why the Renaissance started in Florence, analyzing both the official and the hidden portraits in paintings by Filippo Lippi and Piero Della Francesca, before admiring the works by Botticelli, like La Primavera and the Birth of Venus, getting to know who really is the woman represented by the painter. We’ll go through the career of Leonardo da Vinci, you will be told how the Renaissance spread over all of Italy thanks to Lorenzo the Magnificent, and we will see the only painting safely attributed to Michelangelo.

After taking a breath in the wonderful Uffizi terrace, enjoying the views on Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo, we’ll move downstairs to continue the trip in art and history, getting to know the family of Cosimo de Medici, portrayed by Bronzino, speaking of the cursed generation of Grand Dukes of Tuscany, to continue with the room dedicated to Raphael, painter of beauty and grace.

Finally, we will have a chance to see a different school of painting with Titian and his Venus of Urbino, before finishing with the man who revolutionized the art of painting: Caravaggio.

 

Highlights

  • Basilica di Santa Croce
  • Palazzo Vecchio
  • Ponte Vecchio
  • Baptistery of San Giovanni
  • Duomo
  • Michelangelo’s David
  • Botticelli – Birth of Venus
  • Botticelli – Primavera
  • Leonardo da Vinci – Annunciation
  • Michelangelo – Doni Tondo
  • Raphael – Madonna of the Goldfinch
  • Titian – Venus of Urbino
  • Caravaggio – Bacchus

 

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Tour features

Pricing Private tour – price varies varies based on the number of participants
Duration 6 hours (plus lunch break)
Language English
Tour type Private
Pick-up Florence – via Magliabechi 16 (hotel pick-up available for selected hotels)
Drop-off Florence – Uffizi Gallery
Venues
  • Florence historical center
  • Accademia Gallery
  • Uffizi Gallery
Included
  • Local professional guide
  • Private tour
  • Admission with reservation (Uffizi and Accademia)
  • Lunch break (from 30 to 90 minutes, you decide)
Not included
  • Lunch
  • Any other personal expense

 Tour Schedule

We schedule the tour upon request.

Based on the opening days/hours of the venues involved, we can provide the tour from Tuesday to Sunday (on Sunday mornings, access to the Cathedral is restricted. A detailed description will be provided from outside).

Additional info

The tour involves some walking, it is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
The Duomo, as any other church in Florence, requires tourists to be appropriately dressed. Make sure your shoulders and knees are covered
ID document is required to obtain ticket price reductions for children. This is mandatory (a photocopy is accepted)
Uffizi and Accademia Galleries are the most visited museums in Florence. Tickets need to be reserved in advance, we take care to reserve your skip-the-line tickets (at no additional fee)
Even with skip-the-line tickets, security checks can delay the entrance to the museum

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

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How is our Florence in a Day Tour different?

Private tour

First of all, it’s a private Florence in a Day Tour. You won’t join any large or small group of tourists, it’s meant for you, your family and/or your friends. The Florence Tour Guide will be at your service for the duration of the tour, assisting you in buying skip the line tickets for Uffizi and Accademia, providing you a free skip the line entrance to the Duomo and explaining you whatever you want to know.

Complete tour of Florence

Our Florence in a Day Tour is not a rush through the highlights of the city, which is what most agencies and tour operators offer. If you want to check boxes on your list of attractions to mean “done”, probably this is not for you. We provide insider information, explain in detail the history of the buildings and the collections of the Uffizi gallery, explain why a painting was made and what’s actually represented in the works of art. We explore the connections between historical events and art evolution, engaging the traveler in a discussion, instead of giving lessons. We are available for a customization “on the go”, which is something you are never offered.

Customizable for cruisers

If you are on a cruise to Florence, you want to choose this tour because it allows you to see all the top attractions in one day. Don’t have enough time in Florence? We can lower the duration (and the price) of the tour to fit your needs. Just ask for more information using the form to the right and let us know your plans.

Fair price

Is our Florence in a Day Tour expensive for you? You start saving € 30, combining the Uffizi Gallery Tour with the Florence Walking Tour. Any agency will price a private 6 hours Florence in a Day Tour no less than € 700. Here you can hire directly a local genuine Florence Tour Guide, so you save any agency or middlemen fees, which means paying up to 60% less. The tour is certainly expensive if you travel alone, but it’s as low as € 112/person for a family of five, and if you travel with another family of friends, it gets even lower: much less than any 6-hour Florence Day Tour offered online and much better than any shared group tour.

 

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

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    Basilica di Santa Croce
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    Botticelli - Birth of Venus
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    Ponte Vecchio
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    Michelangelo's David
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    Piazza della Repubblica
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    Leonardo da Vinci - Annunciation
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    Michelangelo - Doni Tondo
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    Caravaggio - Bacchus - particular

 

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Florence Walking Tour

Florence walking tourWalk around the city center, see the Duomo and Ponte Vecchio and discover the original Michelangelo’s David

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Uffizi Gallery tour

uffizi gallery tourBe stunned at beauty with Botticelli Birth of Venus, Da Vinci’s Annunciation and Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo
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Florence Private Walking Tour

Florence private walking tour

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Florence private Walking Tour overview

Florence is an open-air museum: walking through the small streets of the Medieval city, more often than you think, suddenly a large square opens in front of you showing a wonder of history and architecture, a statue, a fountain and so on. Unlike other historical cities, Florence has a very small city center, where all the attractions are concentrated. a Florence private Walking Tour is the best tour to start your visit to Florence. There is one thing you can’t miss: Michelangelo’s David, inside the Accademia Gallery; with Florence Walking Tour you will satisfy your curiosities about the huge statue.

Florence Walking Tour tour starts in Piazza Santa Croce, in front of the Gothic Basilica. We will speak about the facade of the church and the various destinations of the square, moving on to Borgo de Greci, a small street where you will be surprised to know that you are walking in an ancient Roman amphitheater, where gladiators fought for their life and Christians were tortured. After admiring the place where Leonardo da Vinci painted his famous Mona Lisa, we will move to Piazza Della Signoria, the political center of Florence, filed with huge statues made to celebrate the Medici family. You will see Palazzo Vecchio, the Duke’s Palace but also the place where illustrious citizens, including a Medici, were imprisoned, where the Archbishop of Pisa was left hanging and where Savonarola was burned at stake.

The tour approaches the Uffizi building and Ponte Vecchio, the ancient bridge on the river Arno, filled with jewelries and crossed by the private passage of the Medici: the Vasari Corridor. You will see the damage Florence suffered during World War II before getting to the Loggia del Porcellino and to the church of Orsanmichele, a place dense with history where art, religion, money and power are inextricably connected. We will visit Piazza Della Repubblica, the ancient heart of Florence, to follow up with the Duomo complex, the religious center of the city, admiring wonders like Giotto’s Bell Tower and Brunelleschi’s Dome and entering the huge church to see the largest fresco ever made.

In the final stage of the tour, we will visit the Accademia Gallery, to see Michelangelo’s David, talking about the symbology of the statue and where it connects to the history of Florence.

Highlights

  • Basilica di Santa Croce
  • Palazzo Vecchio
  • Uffizi building
  • Ponte Vecchio
  • Loggia del Porcellino
  • Orsanmichele
  • Piazza Della Repubblica
  • Baptistery of San Giovanni
  • Duomo
  • Michelangelo’s David

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Tour features

Pricing Private tour – Price varies
Duration 3 hours
Language English
Tour type Private
Pick-up Florence – via Magliabechi 16 (hotel pick-up available for selected hotels)
Drop-off Florence – Accademia Gallery
Venues
  • Florence historical center
  • Accademia Gallery
Included
  • Local professional guide
  • Skip-the-line entrance to the Cathedral
  • Admission with reservation (Accademia)
  • Private Tour
Not included
  • Any other personal expense

 Tour Schedule

We schedule the tour upon request.

Based on the opening days/hours of the venues involved, we can provide the tour from Tuesday to Sunday (on Sunday mornings, access to the Cathedral is restricted. A detailed description will be provided from outside).

Additional info

The tour involves some walking, it is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
The Duomo, as any other church in Florence, requires tourists to be appropriately dressed. Make sure your shoulders and knees are covered
ID document is required to obtain ticket price reductions for children. This is mandatory (a photocopy is accepted)
Accademia Gallery is one of the most visited museum in Florence. Tickets need to be reserved in advance, we take care to reserve your skip-the-line tickets (at no additional fee).
Even with skip-the-line tickets, security checks can delay the entrance to the museum.

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

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How is our Florence private Walking Tour different?

Private tour

First of all, it’s a private Florence Walking Tour. You won’t join any large or small group of tourists, it’s meant for you, your family and/or your friends. The Florence Tour Guide will be at your service for the duration of the tour, assisting you in buying skip the line tickets for the Accademia and explaining you whatever you want to know.

A classic tour… but different

Our Florence Walking Tour is not a rush through the highlights of the city, which is what most agencies and tour operators offer. If you want to check boxes on your list of attractions to mean “done”, probably this is not for you. We provide insider information, explain in detail the history of the buildings and we are available for any deviation from the standard path, not only to see different things but also to do different things; why not eat an ice cream, for example?

Fair price

Is our Florence Walking Tour expensive for you? Any agency will price a private 3 hours Florence Walking Tour no less than € 400. Here you can hire directly a local genuine Florence Tour Guide, so you save any agency or middlemen fees, which means paying up to 60% less. The tour is certainly expensive if you travel alone, but it’s as low as € 56/person for a family of five, and if you travel with another family of friends, it gets even lower: much less than any 3-hour Florence Day Tour offered online and much better than any shared group tour.

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

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    Basilica di Santa Croce
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    Piazza della Signoria - Palazzo Vecchio
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    Ponte Vecchio
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    Florence Duomo
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    Michelangelo - David (1501-1504)
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    Piazza della Repubblica
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    Michelangelo - David (1501-1504)
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    Michelangelo - David (1501-1504)
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    Michelangelo - David (1501-1504)

 

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

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Don’t Delay: Pre-Book A private Tour And See All The Highlights Of Florence

When booking a holiday, it is always a good idea to ensure that you have secured your accommodation and your flights. To this to do list, you can definitely add: booking a private guided tour. We provide superb private tours of Florence. Our tours are very popular so make sure to pre-book your tours as soon as possible so that you can enjoy this unmissable experience.

The highlights of Florence

It would be hard to find a city that is more packed with art and culture than Florence. From the majestic Duomo cathedral to the beautiful Uffizi gallery, and from the elegant and very romantic Ponte Vecchio to the Renaissance splendour of the very streets themselves, it seems that wherever you turn there are amazing buildings, galleries and statues to discover. But, in Florence, it is important to know where to look. Without a guide to show you where the main highlights are – and to reveal some of the city’s hidden gems too – you might find yourself blithely walking past sites of immense cultural and historical interest without even realising what they are. In short, the very best way to see all of the highlights of Florence is most certainly with a guide.

florence private walking tour

Why book a tour with us? Because we get you to all of the best places!

One key reason to book one of our tours is that we ensure that you get the full Florence experience, seeing all of the main buildings and points of interest that there are to see and getting inside cathedrals, galleries and more. After a tour with us, you will feel like you have really got to know the city in a way that you quite simply could not were you walking around Florence by yourself? So, what will you see with our walking tours of Florence Italy?

With our private walking tours we take you right into the heart of the city and make sure that you do not miss any of the highlights of Florence. Key highlights that you get to see on our walking tours include the Duomo (and here, we actually take you inside the cathedral itself; the cost of this visit is included in the cost of the tour overall) , the Piazza della Signoria and the Ponte Vecchio to name but a few! This standard Florence private tour takes three hours, but you will also see the famous Accademia Gallery. The Accademia is a real heaven of wonderful works of art and a place that you will remember for the rest of your life. For example, here you can see Michelangelo’s original sculpture of David. To make things even easier for you, we include queue jump tickets to the Accademia in the cost of your three hour tour. So there will be no waiting around: you can go straight from highlight to highlight!

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A private walking tour of Florence with exceptional prices

Another reason why choosing us as your Florence walking tour company is a good idea is that we offer excellent prices. Our private tours of Florence are ideal for groups of families or small art groups who want to see the city’s main cultural and historical attractions.

These prices are even more attractive when you consider all of the things that they encompass such as a tour inside the Duomo and a skip the queue ticket to the world famous Accademia. With our tours, for example, you find yourself paying just € 60 per hour – a truly budget friendly option. So why not snap up some tickets right now?

We manage to keep our prices so low because we make sure that the only place that tourists can buy their tours is through us. We will never let agencies or other middle men over inflate our prices. We are dedicated to keeping them consistently low all through the year.

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

Book this tour on Guidaly

 

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The benefits of our private tours

Here, it is worth saying a word or two about why it is preferable to choose our tours, which are private, compared to other tours – which typically have maximum group sizes of around 25 in Florence. The private Florence tours that we offer make touring a much more enjoyable experience, as you get a much more personalised tour. Private tours are  more intimate and they also make it easier for you to ask questions and discuss things with the guide.

Our excellent guides make our tours stand out from the crowd

Our guides have to be one of the biggest selling points of our tours. They are all full licensed Florentine locals and all of them have had to study hard in order to pass an exam in local history and culture in order to be accepted to work for us. In fluent English, our guides bring the tour to life with their local knowledge and their ability to relate all of the attractions that you visit to the history and culture of Florence. For example, our guides will explain the intriguing lives of the powerful Medicis, and also tell you funny anecdotes and curious tales about the churches, palaces and other buildings that you will pass on the streets of Florence. If you opt to enter the Accademia, moreover, your guide will explain to you how this statue relates to the biography of Michelangelo and also reveal some hidden meanings of both David and some of the other statues.

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Regular tours, to suit your schedule

We operate very regular tours, so you are sure to be able to book one that fits in perfectly for your schedule for your time in Florence. We want you to be able to enhance your holiday by learning more about this wonderful city, so we offer tours on a frequent basis. These tours are very popular, though, as we have already mentioned – so it is highly advisable to book yourself a tour as soon as you can.

Why wait any longer? Pre book your tour today!

As you can see from the above, there are so many reasons to book a tour with us. Our guides are second to none, our prices are brilliantly competitive and the number of attractions that you will get to see is breathtaking. Add to that queue jump tickets and smaller group sizes than other walking tours in Florence and you have the recipe for a perfect afternoon out. Pre booking now will ensure that you have our private tours to look forward to when you arrive in Italy.

Booking your tour is so easy!

We have made it very simple to make a booking with us – it really does just take a few moments to wrap up that order and secure your spot for one of the most memorable walking tours of your life. So, what are you waiting for? Head on over to our booking widget, select the date and time that you want to start and make a booking. Then you can sit back and relax – or perhaps dust off those walking shoes in readiness for your tour.

Private tours in Florence is now part of Guidaly.

Now we can offer private tours not only in Florence but also in Tuscany and Rome.

Book this tour on Guidaly

 

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