Overview

Enjoy the experience of a full day tour of Florence in a private group with the fast train and an assistant who will accompany you throughout the trip. When you arrive the assistant will show you the most characteristic and interesting places, you will learn about the habits of the Florentines, you will visit the market of San Lorenzo, famous for leather and shoes.
For lunch, you have many options as typical restaurants, but the most famous dish in Florence is the Florentine steak with good red wine.
In the afternoon visit the city with a guide, breathe the atmosphere of the medieval streets and the artisans' workshops and see masterpieces by Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and Botticelli, including Michelangelo's David at the Accademia. See the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, with its beautiful dome designed by Brunelleschi and admire the Baptistery and Giotto's Bell Tower. At the end of the day return to the capital with the fast train. Arrival and transfer to your hotel.

Description

Stop At: Centro Storico, Florence 50123

Enjoy a full-day walking tour of Florence, the city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments such as Palazzo Vecchio, the Church of San Lorenzo, Santa Maria del Fiore (built by Brunelleschi). The nearby Campanile (designed by Giotto) and the Baptistery are also highlights. But Florence is also an important city for Italian fashion, being one of the 15 fashion capitals of the world. Have all day for yourself to do what you prefer to do. For lunch, you have many options such as bars, typical restaurants, pizzerias but the most famous dish in Florence is the Florentine steak with good red wine.
Let yourself be guided by the tour guide for shopping, eating, sightseeing and everything will be easier.

Duration: 6 hours

Stop At: Galleria dell'Accademia, Via Ricasoli, 58/60, Florence 50122

The visit includes the acAdemy Gallery where inside is the David, Michelangelo's famous sculpture. Michelangelo’s David at the “Accademia in addition to the work of David, there are also other sculptures and a large collection of paintings by Florentine artists.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Duomo - Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Via della Canonica, 1, Piazza del Duomo, Florence 50122

The cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (Visit from outside), with its beautiful dome projected by Brunelleschi, is the cathedral of Florence. 1296 , Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Battistero di San Giovanni, Piazza San Giovanni, Florence 50122

the Baptistery of San Giovanni (visit outside) is located in Piazza Duomo, in front of the Cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore, it is one of the most important monuments in Florence.
The origins of the monument are not certain. It is thought to have been built on the ruins of an ancient Roman temple dedicated to the God Mars around the 4th-5th century AD. The first mention dates back to 897 when it was referred to as a basilica. In 1128 it officially became the city's baptistery, where the baptism rite took place.
The baptistery, named after the patron saint of the city, is characterized by an octagonal plan, covered by a dome with eight segments covered on the outside by a pyramid roof. The exterior of the building is decorated with white Carrara marble and green Prato marble, characteristic of Florentine Romanesque architecture.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Campanile di Giotto, Piazza del Duomo, Historical Center, Florence 50122

Adjacent to the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is the Bell Tower designed by Giotto (visit outside). Giotto's Bell Tower is the majestic bell tower of the Cathedral and one of the masterpieces of Italian Gothic. The Bell Tower has a square base of approximately 15 meters per side with corner reinforcements that rise up to the horizontal cantilevered crown located at a height of 84.7 metres.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Piazza della Signoria, Florence 50122

Piazza della Signoria has been at the center of Florence's political life since the 14th century. The Square has seen important historical events and great triumphs take place, such as the return of the Medici in 1530.
The famous sculptures located in Piazza della Signoria have references to the political events of Florence. The David (the original is located in the Accademia Gallery) was created by Michelangelo and positioned in front of Palazzo Vecchio to symbolize the power of the Florentine Republic in contrast with the tyranny of the Medici. Hercules and Cacus (1534) by Bandinelli instead symbolizes the physical power of the family.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Ponte Vecchio, Florence 50125

Built near a Roman-era crossing, the Ponte Vecchio was until 1218 the only bridge that crossed the Arno in Florence.
Above Ponte Vecchio you can see a part of the beautiful Vasari Corridor. This corridor, built in 1565 by Giorgio Vasari, passes just above the goldsmith shops that currently stand on either side of the bridge. Commissioned by the Medici, it allowed them to move from Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti without having to cross the streets of Florence, in complete safety. At the time of the construction of the Corridor, the butchers' shops were gathered on the Ponte Vecchio, whose activity probably disturbed the passage of the Medici, who in 1593 had them moved, replacing them with the more "decorous" goldsmith shops.

Duration: 30 minutes