Accademia and Uffizi Guided Tour
Uffizi Gallery and Accademia Gallery Tour Combination
Skip the line entrance tickets included!
This guided tour combines the most important two museums in Florence, the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery where the original David by Michelangelo is displayed. Two must-see museums with an expert, licensed English-speaking guide!
TOUR DETAILS
Language: English
Frequency: every day except Monday. From april to October.
Starting time: 11.30 am
Duration: about 5 hours.
Price: 125,00 euro
Price includes: guided tour, skip-the-line entrance tickets for both museums and earphones for groups with more than 5 participants.
This tour will take place rain or shine and from 1 participant onwards
Children: 4-11 years 106,00 euro. Free under 3 years.
Meeting point with your guide: there will be two differet meeting points ofr this tour and they will be communicated on your confirmation voucher.Please arrive 15 minutes before the tour starting time.
MAJOR ADVANTAGES: the visit uses only one single language at a time. Skip the line entrance tickets to both museums.
Tour itinerary and description
This exclusive tour allows you to skip the line to two of Florence’s most renowned art galleries. Start off the day by meeting your guide and enjoy this artistic journey through time!
THE ACCADEMIA TOUR AND MICHELANGELO'S DAVID
Take a tour of one of the world’s most renowned art galleries with your licensed guide - The Accademia Gallery. Your skip the line tickets mean you can avoid the queues which can sometimes take hours to go down! Once in the gallery, you’ll see the world’s most famous sculpture, Michelangelo’s David.
In Accademia museums, you’ll also admire Michelangelo’s some unfinished sculptures: Prigioni and San Matteo, and a rich display of paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by artists like Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and Andrea del Sarto.
THE UFFIZI GALLERY TOUR
Once the tour at the Accademia Gallery is over, you will reach the Uffizi Gallery by a short walk among Florence city centre.
The Uffizi Gallery is the most visited Italian museum and houses many masterpieces of famous painters, displayed in chronological order.
From Cimabue, the greatest master of the romanesque style, the itinerary through the museum shows the revolution carried on by Giotto at the beginning of the 14th century up to the precious late gothic art of Gentile da Fabriano of the early Quattrocento.
Paintings by Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca and Filippo Lippi witness the new ideas of the Renaissance, while the golden age of Lorenzo the Magnificent is the background of the masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, the Birth of Venus and the Allegory of Spring.
You will enjoy incredible masterpieces by Leonardo, Raffaello, Tiziano and Michelangelo and Caravaggio.
Focus on Raphael - The Portrait of Leo X at the Uffizi
Raphael at the Uffizi - Portrait if Pope Leo X
Giovanni de’ Medici was elected Pope in 1513 under the name of Leo X. About five years later, the Pope commissioned his portrait to Raphael, who was living in Rome at the time, having been appointed Superintendent of Antiquities by the Pope himself. The majestic portrait shows the Medici pope seated at a table, magnifying lens in hand, before an illuminated manuscript. Behind him are two prelates, Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi. The work arrived in Florence in 1518, immediately after having been completed. Here it was praised by Vasari for its figures which are “not fake, but painted in full relief”. For the “rustling and shining” damask robe, for the “soft and realistic” fur linings, for the golden knob on the chair which reflects “the light from the windows, the Pope’s shoulders and the surrounding room”. Exemplary restoration has rivived the brilliance and intense chromatic variety of reds. Antonio Natali, who directed the restoration work, has noted that the two cardinals are by another hand, probably added by a valid collaborator of Raphael such as Sebastiano del Piombo or Giuliano Romano.
Accademia + Uffizi: the itinerary
Why is the David the most recognizable symbol of Florence and what did he represent in his time? How did the genius of Michelangelo confront the challenge of creating figures of compassion like the Pietà, or the famous Prisoners who still seem to struggle free from their marble blocks? After the Accademia you will have a short break for lunch and then at 3.15 pm you will meeet again your guide to visit the Uffizi Gallery which is one of the most famous museums in the world. Your knowledgeable guide will explain the works of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: Cimabue, Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and many more.
At the end of the tour, you do not have to rush away. You can remain in the museum until closing time, so you have plenty of opportunity to make your list of personal favourites.
