Wondering about how to spend a day in Florence? This walking tour is a must if you want to tick off the city’s most important sites and art gallery off your list. You’ll start by exploring the city with a knowledgeable guide before visiting two of the city’s revered art galleries: the Accademia and the Uffizi.
How to visit Florence in one day? See the main attractions in one day with this tour, with a walking tour of the historic centre and skip the line tickets to two of the city’s art museums.
A pleasant walk through Florence is the best way to get acquainted with the city’s splendour and secular heritage. You’ll learn about the city’s historic and architectural evolution and its changing face from its Roman foundations to the Renaissance and the present day. A walking tour of Florence shouldn’t miss the most important sites, and this one definitely doesn’t. You’ll see the Piazza della Signoria with its town hall, the Palazzo Vecchio, the Duomo Cathedral, the Baptistery, Giotto’s bell tower, Brunelleschi’s Dome, and the Ponte Vecchio among others!
Even if you book ahead, you can spend ages waiting to get into the Accademia Gallery. However, you don’t have to as you’ve got skip the line tickets! Once you get in, an art expert will guide you through the gallery and to its highlight the Statue of David. The 17-foot-high sculpture is a symbol of Florence, but there’s more to see than just that. There are also Michelangelo’s famously unfinished sculptures, Prigioni and San Matteo, as well as paintings and sculptures by Botticelli, Uccello and del Sarto.
The last stop on today’s tour is the renowned Uffizi Gallery. Arguably the most important museum in Italy, the Uffizi is home to an incredible collection of artworks from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and beyond. Your guide will bring works by Giotto, Michelangelo, da Vinci and more to life, and you won’t even have to wait in a queue to get in as you have skip-the-line tickets! A wonderful end to the day, not-to-be-missed off your Florence itinerary!