THE “UFFIZI GALLERY“
Address: Loggiato degli Uffizi, 6
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday from 8.15 to 18.50
Phone: 055 238 8683 / Reservations phone: 055 294 883
Ticket: Euro 9,50 / Euro 6,25 for European citizens over 18 and under 25
Museums Reservations: reserve your ticket museum to visit to Uffizi Gallery.
Museums Reservations: book a guided visit to the Uffizi Gallery.
The UFFIZI GALLERY is one of the gratest museums in Italy and the world. The Uffizi were intended to house the offices of the famous Medici family (Uffizi = offices). From the beginning, however, the Medici set aside certain rooms to house the finest works of art from their collections. Today the Uffizi contains masterpieces by Italian and foreign artists from the 13th to the 18th century, such as Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca etc. The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano) that connects the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace hosts a rich collection of self-portraits by past and present artists. Built by Vasari in 1565, it passes above the Ponte Vecchio, the “Old Bridge” (infact the oldest bridge in the city).
THE “ACCADEMY GALLERY“
Address: Via Ricasoli, 58-60
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday from 8.15 to 18.50
Phone: 055 238 8609 / Reservations phone: 055 294 883
Ticket: Euro 9,50
Museums Reservations: reserve your ticket museum to visit to Accademy Gallery.
Museums Reservations: book a guided visit to the Accademy Gallery.
The ACCADEMY GALLERY (“Galleria dell’Accademia”) is one of the best known museums in Florence, because it houses famous sculptures by Michelangelo, including the “David”, “The four prisoners” and the “Pieta of Palestina”. There are also many paintings collected by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold to help the young Florentine artists, enrolled in the Academy of Arts school which is still next door to the gallery.
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM “IL BARGELLO“
Address: Via del Proconsolo, 4
Opening times: Everyday from 8.15 to 13.50
Phone: 055 238 8606 / Reservations phone: 055 294 883
Ticket: Euro 4,00
Museums Reservations: reserve your ticket museum to visit to the National Museum “Il Bargello”.
Guided Visit Reservations: book a guided visit to the Bargello Museum and Santa Croce Square.
The NATIONAL MUSEUM “IL BARGELLO” has its setting in one of the oldest buildings in Florence and one of the most beautiful in Italy, which was begun in 1255. Initially the residence of the “Bargello” or head of police spies, from which it took its name, the building’s use as a National Museum began in the mid-nineteenth century. What the Uffizi offers in painting, the Bargello offers in sculpture and its courtyard and interiors contain some of the masterpieces of the Tuscan Renaissance. It contains masterpieces by Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Cellini, Giambologna and Donatello alognwith priceless ivories, enamels, jewels, tapestries and weapons.
THE MUSEUM OF “SAN MARCO“
Address: Piazza San Marco 3
Opening times: Monday – Friday from 8.15 to 13.50; Saturday and Sunday from 8.15 to 18.50
Phone: 055 7238 8608 / Reservations phone: 055 294 883
Ticket: Euro 7,00
Museums Reservations: reserve your ticket museum to visit to the Museum of San Marco.
It is worth visiting the setting of the MUSEUM OF SAN MARCO for its architecture alone. Everything is designed to coordinate and simplify the monastic life within its walls in its calm cloister as well as the light-filled library, one of the finest interiors of the Renaissance. Furthermore, the the museum contains the works of Fra’ Angelico in the form of frescoed interiors and the panels displayed in the large alms-house. The museum also has a very beautiful Last Supper frescoed by Ghirlandaio at the end of the fifteenth century, and, in its first public library of the Renaissance, a fine series of illuminated manuscripts.
THE MUSEUM OF THE “CATHEDRAL“
Address: P.za Duomo
Phone: 055 230 2885
The MUSEUM OF THE CATHEDRAL (“Museo dell’Opera del Duomo”) houses artworks from the Gothic Cathedral, the Baptisty and the Tower of Giotto (campanile). The most important works in the museum are by Michelangelo (“Pietà”), Donatello (“Mary Magdalen”), Arnolfo di Cambio (“Boniface VIII”) and Luca della Robbia (“Cantoria”).
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GALLERY OF THE “HOSPITAL OF THE INNOCENTS“
Address: Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12
Opening times: Everyday (except Wednesday, closed) from 8.15 to 14
Phone: 055 249 1708
Ticket: Euro 2,50
The GALLERY OF THE “HOSPITAL OF THE INNOCENTS” is set in one of the best known and most important architectural complexes of the early fifteenth century in Florence.
After the 1966 flood, the entire complex of buildings was completely restored in an attempt to return to its original fifteenth century appearance. The Gallery is placed in the loggia above the cloister and in the former dayroom of the children above the main portico. The Gallery contains also fine works of a collections made up over the centuries by gifts, bequestes and loans, apart from works, specifically executed for the Innocenti itself.
“PALAZZO VECCHIO” museum
To learn more about Palazzo Vecchio you can choose among several organized tours that will allow you to discover the many rooms where the most powerful rulers of Florence lived or managed, especially the House of Medici.
To visit the Museum of Palazzo Vecchio you can choose among:
Quartieri Monumentali:
Palazzo Vecchio is a micro-cosmos where history and art have been irremediably intertwined for more than seven centuries. This visit will make you know all the rooms of the Museum, with a special attention to the masterpieces it contains. The tour ends in a place reachable only by a secret passage, which is not open to the public.
Price: from 16€ (reduced 11,5€) – including online booking
Duration: 1 hour and half (every day) Book now !
Secret passages tour:
At Palazzo Vecchio there are rooms inside Palazzo Vecchio where time seems not to slip by and where it is easy for visitors to experience emotions from the past.
Price: 16€ (reduced 11,5€) – including online booking
Duration: 1 hour and half (every day) Book now !
Guided tour with GIORGIO VASARI:
On Saturdays and Sundays you can participate in this interactive visit. The animator-actor who plays Giorgio Vasari leads visitors in the secret paths of the palace. Each place represents a different moment of the professional and human life of the artist and architect who worked on restructuring the Palazzo Vecchio under Cosimo I.
Price: 16€ (reduced 10€) – including online booking
Duration: 1 hour and half (Saturdays and Sundays) Book now !
Guided tour with COSIMO I:
Cosimo I de’ Medici was the first member of Medici who made of Palazzo Vecchio his residence. He commissioned a big restructuration to Giorgio Vasari.
The guided tour with Cosimo I is an animated visit through the rooms of Palazzo Vecchio ending with an interactive theatrical performance with Duke Cosimo and Duchess Eleanor, played by actors. Visiting the Quartieri Monumentali with Cosimo I, visitors will understand the relationship between Art and Power as in Cosimo’s thought.
Price: 10,82€ (reduced 8,82€) – including online booking
Duration: 1 hour and half (Saturdays and Sundays) Book now !