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Uffizi Gallery Vip Guided Tour


Uffizi Gallery Guided Tour with Private Guide

This tour represents un unforgettable experience visisting the world-wide famous Uffizi Gallery which houses the largest collection of paintings from Romanesque period to the 18th century.
Nowadays the Uffizi still accommodates famous masterpieces exhibited in chronological order.

Tour with private guide - Exclusive service!

Duration: about 3 hours
Availability: from Tuesday to Sunday. This tour is not available on the first Sunday of each month, Christmas and New year’s Eve.
Tour Starting time: from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm, the choice of the time is up to the customer. From June to September, this tour is also available on Tuesday night.
Language: English or any other language.

This tour lasts about 3 hours. The tour itinerary can be personalized according to any visitors’ special request.
The standard schedule includes all most important masterpieces on show, from Cimabue to Caravaggio’s paintings. The guide will also highlight the main features of the Uffizi palace and details about its fascinating history. 

 The Uffizi Gallery Tour Itinerary

The path starts from the great Romanesque paintings by Cimabue, heading on to the Gothic revolution of Giotto and following on with the decorative richness of the late-gothic art belonging to Gentile da Fabriano. Renaissance innovations are testified with works by Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca and Filippo Lippi, whilst the great season of Lorenzo il Magnifico is represented by Sandro Botticelli's masterpieces like “The Birth of Venus” and the “Allegory of Spring”. The exhibition carries on with paintings from Leonardo da Vinci and the only documented painting by Michelangelo, the “Doni Tondo”, before arriving to the acknowledged works by Raphael and Titian. A wide section hosts Caravaggio's “Bacchus” and “Medusa” as well as the works of the master's followers such as Artemisia Gentileschi. The museum's path ends with neoclassical paintings of the '700 as a prelude to modern art.

During your tour, the guide will also comment the architectural features of the magnificent Uffizi building projected by the architect Giorgio Vasari who started the construction of the great Uffizi palace in 1560 under the desire of Cosimo I de' Medici. The awesome building was meant to host thirteen magistracies. Construction of the top floor was ended in 1580 and was designed to host the Medici family's artwork collection.

 

Our guides

Italy Travels tour guides staff is represented by licensed guides of great experience and high level of professionalism, competence and excellence on their job. All Italy Travels guides are authorized by the provincial administration of Florence and most of them are art historians and teachers in art subjects.

All private tours organized by Italy Travels always include pre-reserved museum tickets when museum tours are included in the tour itinerary. In this way visitors avoid waisting time waiting in line in front of museums ticket offices.

 
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