Florence fills up by ten. Book the David before the train.
Timed tickets for the Accademia and the Uffizi, the climb inside Brunelleschi’s dome, a pasta class that ends with lunch, and the coach out to Siena and the towers of San Gimignano. Reviews of every tour you can book from Florence.
The David, the Uffizi, the dome, then a day in the Tuscan hills.
Four bookings almost every first visit to Florence is built around, with what each costs and what the people who went say about it.
01Michelangelo firstTimed Entrance Ticket to Michelangelo’s DavidA timed slot at the Accademia. Take the first entry of the morning and you share the David with a handful of people.
02The big gallerySkip-The-Line Uffizi Gallery Timed Entry TicketBotticelli, Leonardo and Caravaggio on one ticket. The timed entry skips the walk-up line that wraps around the Vasari colonnade.
03The climbBrunelleschi’s Dome Climb Entry Ticket & DuomoUp the inside of Brunelleschi’s dome, past the painted Last Judgement, out onto the lantern terrace above the red roofs.
04Out of the cityTuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch at a WinerySiena, San Gimignano and Pisa in one long coach day, with lunch at a winery in between.
Accademia, Uffizi or the Duomo: which Florence ticket comes first.
Most of what people cross the world to see in Florence sits inside five minutes’ walk of the cathedral, and almost all of it runs on timed entry. Here is what each one costs to get into.
The AccademiaThe David, and Michelangelo’s unfinished Prisoners leading up to him.
The UffiziThe Birth of Venus, the Medici collection, a window over the Arno.
The Duomo complexCathedral, Baptistery, bell tower and the dome climb on one pass.
Palazzo VecchioThe town hall with the Hall of the Five Hundred and the secret passages.
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★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · Cathedral & Brunelleschi’s Dome Ticket & Audio App · from $70
Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa: Tuscany is an hour from the Duomo.
Every day trip from Florence →Florence is the base and the hill towns are the reason to stay a week. Six directions out of the city, and what it costs to get there with somebody else driving.
Three Florence tickets that sell out while you are still packing.
The trattorie and the leather market will wait for you. These three run on numbered slots, and in spring and summer the good hours are gone days ahead.
- 01Timed Entrance Ticket to Michelangelo’s DavidEntry to the Accademia is by timed slot and the gallery closes on Mondays, so the rest of the week absorbs the demand.
- 02Skip-The-Line Uffizi Gallery Timed Entry TicketAlso shut on Mondays. Without a booked slot the walk-up line under the colonnade can eat a whole morning in summer.
- 03Brunelleschi’s Dome Climb Entry Ticket & DuomoThe 463 steps up Brunelleschi’s dome go by reserved time slot only, chosen when you book the pass.
The Florence bookings more travellers make than any other.
Every Florence tour we review →Galleries, wine country and kitchens: the tours that fill first, and why each one keeps its place.
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Skip-The-Line Uffizi Gallery Timed Entry Ticket
Enter Florence’s Uffizi Gallery with a timed ticket, collected at Door 3 before you enter through Door 1. Explore Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera, along with works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other Renaissance masters. An English digital audio guide is included, but there is no live guide.
From · $30
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Tuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch at a Winery
from $114
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Timed Entrance Ticket to Michelangelo’s David
from $26
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Michelangelo’s David Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket
from $45
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The Best tour in Florence: Renaissance & Medici Tales – guided by a STORYTELLER
from $3
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Leonardo Interactive Museum Entry Ticket
from $9
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Pasta Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine
from $21
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Pisa, Siena and San Gimignano Day Trip with Lunch
from $58
Pasta by hand in Florence, Sangiovese in the Chianti hills.
Tuscan cooking is plain food done properly, and the best way into it is to roll the dough yourself. Book the class that ends at the table, the market walk before it, and the cellar day out among the vines.
The Uffizi and the Accademia close on Mondays. Leave the city.
Both big galleries lock their doors at the start of the week, and the crowds spill into whatever is still open. Spend Monday the way Florentines spend a free day: at a farmhouse table, on a bike between vineyards, or on the train to the coast.
What a day out of Florence actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. A gallery ticket costs less than lunch on the Piazza della Signoria; a day in the Chianti costs a good dinner.
Gallery tickets, the dome pass, audio-guided walks and the shorter bike rides through the centre.
Cooking classes, guided Uffizi and Accademia visits, and the coach days to Siena, Pisa and San Gimignano.
Private guides, small-group wine country by car, truffle hunts and the Vespa days with lunch.
Three days out of Florence you will not find anywhere else in Italy.
Every city has a gallery and a walking tour. A scooter through the Chianti, a town of medieval towers and the cypress roads of the Val d’Orcia are the days only this corner of Italy offers.
A Vespa through the Chianti
The road south out of Florence climbs straight into olive terraces and cypress lines, and the Chianti villages sit on its bends. Riding it on a Vespa is the way Italians did it in the sixties: slow on the hairpins, a winery stop for lunch, and back over the hills as the light goes gold.
- 1Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,019 reviews
- 2Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Option★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,453 reviews
- 3Tuscan Countryside Vespa Tour with Tastings★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 701 reviews
The Towers of San Gimignano
Rival families once raised more than seventy towers here, each trying to out-build the next; around fourteen still stand. The town is small enough to cross in ten minutes, the gelato on the Piazza della Cisterna is famous for a reason, and the white Vernaccia wine is grown on the slopes below the walls.
- 1Tuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch at a Winery★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 21,634 reviews
- 2Pisa, Siena and San Gimignano Day Trip with Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 9,771 reviews
- 3Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano, and Chianti Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 8,393 reviews
The Val d’Orcia
South of Siena the land opens into bare clay hills, wheat fields and lines of cypress, a farmed landscape UNESCO lists as World Heritage. Montalcino makes Brunello from Sangiovese, Montepulciano makes its Vino Nobile, and Pienza is the small town a fifteenth-century pope rebuilt as his ideal city. Two hours from Florence, and worth the whole day.
- 1Full Day Tour to Val d’Orcia and Gladiator’s Fields with Wines★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,106 reviews
- 2Val D’Orcia Tour with Wine Tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 1,106 reviews
- 3Val d’Orcia Brunello Wine Tour with Montalcino and Montepulciano★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 359 reviews
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