Florence · Italy
Renaissance city, Tuscan hills, the long lunch.
The Uffizi and the David, day trips to Siena, San Gimignano, the Cinque Terre and the Chianti hills, plus the cooking classes and wine tastings that make Tuscany Tuscany.
The queue busters
Don't queue. Reserve.
Florence's three biggest lines have a one-ticket fix. Book before you fly in and you walk past the queue.
The first ticket you book
Start with the Uffizi.
Florence's biggest gallery, with the longest queues and the easiest ticket to reserve in advance. The one thing you should not improvise.
The classics
Florence's Most Popular Tours
The Uffizi, the David, the Duomo, and the Tuscan day trip everyone takes from Florence. The reason most travellers come.
By gallery
Where the Renaissance lived.
Four galleries hold most of what you came to see. The David at the Accademia, the Venus at the Uffizi, the Medici treasury at Pitti, Brunelleschi's dome over the Duomo.
Botticelli's Birth of Venus, da Vinci's Annunciation, Caravaggio's Medusa.
69 tours reviewed →Michelangelo's David. Five metres of marble, alone in his apse.
86 tours reviewed →The Medici treasury, the Palatine Gallery, and the Boboli Gardens out the back.
10 tours reviewed →Brunelleschi's dome, Giotto's Campanile, the Baptistery's Gates of Paradise.
62 tours reviewed →Beyond Florence
Step outside the city walls.
Chianti for the wine. Siena for the cathedral and the Palio. San Gimignano for the towers. Pisa for the tower that leans. Cinque Terre for a day by the sea.
Eat in Tuscany
Pasta, wine, and the long Tuscan lunch.
Cooking classes in farmhouse kitchens. Chianti tastings between Florence and Siena. Lunch tours through Sant'Ambrogio. The rhythm you came for.
Plan your days
How long are you in Florence?
Build the trip around the time you actually have. One day, a long weekend, or a full week using Florence as a base for the rest of Tuscany.
The David in the morning, lunch near Santa Croce, the Uffizi in the afternoon, gelato on the Ponte Vecchio at sunset. Queue-skip everything you can.
See the queue-free essentials →Add a Chianti wine tasting between Florence and Siena, or a half-day trip to Pisa for the tower. Climb Brunelleschi's dome before you leave.
Plan a Chianti tasting →Add Siena, San Gimignano, the Cinque Terre, and a full Tuscany day from Florence. Cooking class in a farmhouse. Long lunches in the hills.
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