Florence Palace Tickets and Medici Palace Tours
32 listings and 27,495 reviews across three Medici palaces and a garden. Doors run from 10 to 20 EUR, the median product here is 99, and no two of the four keep the same week.
Florence sells the walk between its palaces, not the way into them. The doors here are the cheapest in the Italian catalogue, from 10 EUR for the Boboli Garden to 20 for the tower of Palazzo Vecchio, and the median product on this site is 99 EUR. Almost all of that difference is a guide and a route. What nobody tells you at the point of sale is that the four buildings on that route keep four different weeks: Palazzo Pitti closes on Mondays, Palazzo Medici Riccardi on Wednesdays, Palazzo Vecchio never closes but shuts at 14:00 on Thursdays, and the Boboli Garden takes only the first and last Monday of each month off. Book a Wednesday walk built around the Medici and one of its three stops is locked.
The rating attached to Florence needs a warning label. Florence carries a weighted 4.937, the highest of any destination in the Italian catalogue, and it is almost entirely one product: a 2.99 EUR tipped Renaissance and Medici walking tour with 13,884 of the city's 27,495 reviews, rated a flat 5.0. Half the reviews of a city come from a single 135-minute walk with a symbolic booking fee. The listings that actually take you inside a palace are rated between 4.2 and 4.8, which is a good range and a completely different number. Read the page average here as a fact about the catalogue rather than as a fact about Florence.
Florence is also the only Italian city in this catalogue where more than one palace fits into a morning. Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Medici Riccardi stand a few minutes apart inside the pedestrian centre, Palazzo Pitti is across the Arno with its garden climbing the hill behind it, and no listing here includes a hotel pickup because not one of them needs one. So the limit on a Florentine day is never distance. It is which building is shut that morning, and a tower that stops two hours before the museum underneath it.
All 32 Florentine listings hang off two palaces, sixteen on Palazzo Medici Riccardi and sixteen on Palazzo Pitti, and none is filed against Florence directly. The two sets behave differently: the Medici Riccardi products are city walks that go in, the Pitti products are gallery visits that stay in one building. Palazzo Vecchio and the Boboli Garden have no listings of their own here, and both turn up inside other people's itineraries constantly, which is why this page covers them.
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Medici Riccardi Palace
The first Medici palace, and the Chapel of the Magi inside it. The ticket admits you to the building, not to the chapel: ten people every five minutes, waited…
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Pitti Palace
The Medici residence, the Palatine Gallery and the Boboli Gardens: three tickets, and booking ahead adds a flat 3 EUR to every one of them.
16 experiences
Castles Experiences in Florence
The Paintings Are Still Hung Where the Lorraine Put Them, Not by Date
The pictures sit where the Lorraine grand dukes hung them, arranged by their taste rather than by date, which is why this reads as a house and not a museum.
The Pazzi Conspiracy Played as a Puzzle Game on Your Own Phone
No guide and no fixed time: an app sets riddles that unlock the next location, and the case you are working is the plot to kill Lorenzo de' Medici.
Three Hours on Two Buildings: the Palace Inside and the Chapels
Three hours on two buildings rather than ten stops in the street: the palace interior with the Chapel of the Magi, then the New Sacristy and the crypt.
Where Michelangelo Learned to Carve, Under a Pupil of Donatello
It includes the place where Michelangelo learned to sculpt under Bertoldo, a pupil of Donatello, and the palaces of the families the Medici were fighting.
Five Sections on One Ticket, and It Needs Four People to Run
The ticket covers five sections including the Royal and Imperial Apartments. Worth knowing: it takes four bookings to run, or you are refunded in full.
The Crypt Nobody Knew About Until 2004, and Michelangelo's Hiding Place
Skip-the-line into the chapels, the crypt found in 2004 under a slab behind the altar, and the room where Michelangelo hid for weeks in 1530, seen from outside.
Two eBooks Instead of a Guide, and the Woman Who Bought the Palace
No guide: the entry plus two eBooks written by art historians, to read at your own pace. Eleonora di Toledo was the one who bought this palace, in 1550.
Twenty-Eight Rooms with a Guide, and Five Years as Italy's Royal Palace
Two hours with a guide through the 28 rooms of the Palatina, then free time for the modern art, treasury and costume museums. The palace was royal from 1865.
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