Palazzo Medici Riccardi Tickets and the Chapel of the Magi

There are no circuits here, no tower supplement, no separate chapel ticket. A single admission covers the Chapel of the Magi, the Gallery of Mirrors, the archaeological route under the building, the Museum of Marbles and whatever temporary exhibition is running. That simplicity is unusual among the palaces in this catalogue and it removes the commonest way of buying the wrong thing.

Prices move with the calendar rather than the channel. The adult ticket is 15 EUR from 1 March to 1 November and 10 EUR from 2 November to 28 February; the reduced rate, for 18 to 25 year olds, university students and Touring Club Italiano members, is 10 EUR and 7 EUR across the same two bands. Under eighteens go free, as do licensed guides, accredited journalists, disabled visitors with a companion and ICOM, ICOMOS and ICCROM members. A guided visit is a supplement of 4 EUR on the ticket, or 2 EUR for residents of the metropolitan area, and it is optional: nothing here requires a guide. There are also standing two for one offers for Unicoop Firenze cardholders, for Human Company campsite guests wearing the wristband, and during the Musart Festival in 2026. The palace does not publish a booking fee for buying online, and its own page shows the same list of prices with a buy button beside each band.

The Chapel of the Magi is a small room and the palace protects it with a hard limit instead of a queueing system: ten people at a time, in and out every five minutes. Nothing about that changes with the ticket you hold, and there is no priority version of it. The wait happens in the Michelozzo courtyard, standing, and the palace says as much in writing rather than leaving visitors to discover it.

This is the reason to be sceptical about the phrase skip the line on this particular palace. There is no controlled lane at the entrance for a reseller to hold, and the constraint everybody actually meets is thirty metres past it. In this catalogue that scepticism is shared by the market itself: none of the sixteen listings puts skip the line in its title and only one carries the flag at all, the lowest share of any Italian page here. What a booked walk does give you is an arrival time that somebody has thought about, and a guide who knows to send the group upstairs first and come back to the chapel when the room has emptied.

The palace opens 9:00 to 19:00 and closes on Wednesdays. That single fact catches out more visitors than anything else here, because the state museums of Florence close on Mondays and travellers arrive with Monday marked as the difficult day. Here Monday is a normal working day and Wednesday is the shut one.

The ticket office and the bookshop stop at 18:00, an hour before the building, so the last practical admission is well before the published closing time. The palace is closed on 25 December and opens only from 14:00 to 19:00 on 1 January. And the door has moved: since Thursday 27 August 2026 the entrance is at Via de' Ginori 2, not the historic one on Via Cavour that older directions, maps and printed guides still give. It is a few minutes north of the cathedral either way, but the two streets are on opposite sides of the block.

Read that boundary carefully, because it is written oddly. The high band runs to 1 November inclusive, so somebody visiting on All Saints' Day pays 15 EUR and somebody arriving the following morning pays 10. A family of four that shifts by twenty-four hours saves twenty euros, and nothing else about the visit is different: same rooms, same hours, same ten-people-every-five-minutes upstairs. It is the only price in the Italian catalogue that behaves this way, and it is the sort of thing a reseller has no reason to tell you, because their own price does not move.

The palace publishes no recommended visit length, which is worth saying plainly because several sites quote one as though it came from the museum. What can be measured is what the products do: the sixteen listings here run from 70 to 180 minutes, with a median of 120 and thirteen of them finishing inside two hours. Those figures describe walks through Florence that include this palace, not time spent in these rooms, so they set an upper bound and nothing more.

Worth it, on a straightforward calculation. Fifteen euros is the cheapest palace door in the Italian catalogue after the Boboli Garden, the chapel is the reason the building is famous, and a guide can be added at the desk for four euros more without booking anything in advance. Keep in mind that the room everybody wants holds ten people, that the wait for it is unquantified and unbookable, and that a wet Wednesday afternoon here is simply a closed door. If a fixed hour matters more than the price, the better move is to arrive at nine when the desk opens instead of buying a product that promises to solve a queue nobody controls.

Fifteen come from Viator and one from Civitatis. Three are private, two are small group, fifteen of the sixteen allow free cancellation and only one offers instant confirmation. The spread is wide for a single building, from 39 EUR for a small group Medici walk to 450 at the top of the range, and what the extra buys is group size and somebody's hours, not a better way in.

The ratings inside that set are more interesting than the page average. The best rated product with a real sample and a real price is a 99 EUR small group tour at 5.0 across 210 reviews. The worst rated with a real sample is a 90 EUR guided visit to this palace at 4.4 across 44 reviews, which is also the only listing here named after the building rather than after the family. A 161 EUR private tour holds 5.0 over 41 reviews and a 110 EUR late afternoon walk the same over 28. The pattern across the Italian catalogue repeats here: products that treat the palace as one stop in a story are rated higher than products that treat it as a destination, and the price gap between them is not access. It is group size and the length of somebody's afternoon.