Duration: 3 Hours
Type of Service: Discover Florence Walking Tour - private tour
Explore the most important sites in Florence with your very own privately guided walking tour. Your English-speaking guide will meet you inside your hotel lobby, and then you will embark on an adventure and learn what it’s like to live as a local in the Renaissance city. With your guide, they will bring you around to the most important sites including the following:
- Piazza Signoria, with the gorgeous outdoor sculpture gallery – the Logia dei Lanzi
- The Ponte Vecchio, the oldest and most gorgeous bridge in Florence, dotted with little artisanal gold jewelry shops
- Via del Corso, the famous shopping street
- The Duomo, the famous church of monumental proportions, featuring Brunelleschi’s famous dome
- The Accademia, where you can see the David by Michelangelo, we will provide skip-the-line tickets
- Church of Orsanmichele, with its gorgeous architecture and outdoor sculptures
- Admire the Palazzo Vecchio on one side of the square, once the Medici family home, and the many sculptures that surround the piazza, including a replica of Michelangelo's 'David' where the original once stood
- Piazza Santa Croce, an important piazza and church in Florence in which many famous Florentines are buried, including Michelangelo and Galileo
Things to know:
- 3 hour central Florence walking tour, led by an expert local guide
- Explore the San Lorenzo neighborhood and learn about the Medici family
- See the Medici Chapels and the Basilica of San Lorenzo
- Walk around the Duomo Complex
- Stroll through Piazza della Signoria
- Visit Florence Accademia Gallery (Galleria dell’ Accademia)
- Skip the line tickets for Accademia Gallery - tickets must be bought 10 days in advance
- Choose morning or afternoon tour time frame (3 hours)
- Most Popular and Highly Rated tour
- The Accademia Gallery is closed on Mondays, therefore the tour will visit an alternate museum
- Tour offered 7 days a week, based on availability / no tour dates available December 24 - January 2)
- Wear comfortable walking shoes
- Tour can be customized around your preferences to include shopping and fun food stops along the way
- Tour does not operate the last week in August and the first week of September