Three tickets decide a trip to Florence, Italy: a Duomo pass with a Dome slot, an Uffizi entry and a timed David reservation. This guide prints the price of each, the rules that come with the slot and the closures that catch people out, so your hours go on the paintings instead of the queue.
The three tickets: the Uffizi reserved entry with audioguide is €16 (about $19), the dome climb ticket with the Duomo pass is €53 (about $62) with a timed Dome slot, and the timed entry to Michelangelo's David is €28 (about $33). Three nights covers the big three museums, one Oltrarno afternoon and a sunset at Piazzale Michelangelo. A fourth night buys a day trip to Pisa or Siena.
Key takeaways
The five hubs of this Florence guide, each with the three facts that decide it.
Twenty-five places ranked, numbered to a pin map, with the adult price and closed day on every card: the full ranked list of Florence attractions.
Timed tickets for the three sights that sell out, and what each one includes: Uffizi timed tickets and the audioguide, David timed entry and the audio app, what the Firenzecard covers in 72 hours.
Six areas measured by walk minutes to the Duomo and by tourist tax, and the one to pick for a first visit: neighbourhoods compared by walk time to the Duomo. Start with Oltrarno if evenings matter more than mornings.
Each town gets a train column beside the tour cards, so you can see which town suits a train and which a coach: Pisa, Siena and Chianti by train or by tour.
Itineraries with timed slots already placed, the month chart in Celsius, and tram, bus and the ZTL. Read the three-day plan first; most people end up on it.
What this city actually cooks, and the twelve places a published guide names first: where to eat in Florence.
Florence inside the old walls is about two kilometres across, so the plan is not one district a day — it is one morning each, and the day trips fill what is left. These six cover the geography a first visit actually uses; nothing here is more than 25 minutes on foot from the Duomo except the last two.
The UNESCO core: the Duomo, the Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio and Ponte Vecchio inside a dozen blocks you can cross in fifteen minutes. Busiest between 10:00 and 16:00, and almost empty at 08:00.
North of the cathedral: David in the Accademia, the Medici Chapels, the basilica of San Lorenzo and the market that feeds the whole quarter. Half a morning, and the one ticket worth holding in advance.
Across the river: Pitti, the Boboli garden, Santo Spirito and the artisan streets around San Frediano. This is where the evening happens, and where the restaurant bills stop being written for visitors.
East of the centre: the basilica where Michelangelo and Galileo are buried, the Sant'Ambrogio market, and the leather trade that gave the quarter its name. Cheaper lunches than anywhere inside the ring.
The terrace everyone photographs, and the eleventh-century abbey ten minutes above it that almost nobody climbs to. Both free, both open late, and the walk up takes about 25 minutes from Ponte Vecchio.
Pisa and Lucca are regional-train towns; Siena, San Gimignano, Chianti and the Val d'Orcia are coach or car country. One of them belongs in a three-day stay, two in a five-day one.
The historic centre is small enough that these eight sit on one loop from the Duomo to the river and back over the hill. Walk them in this order and the timed slots fall into place: Dome first while your legs are fresh, David after lunch, the view last.
The Cathedral nave is free and needs no ticket, Monday to Saturday 10:15 to 15:45, closed to visitors on Sundays. Everything else in Piazza del Duomo runs on one of three passes from the Opera del Duomo, and only the Brunelleschi Pass includes the Dome. The dome climb ticket with the Duomo pass is €53 (about $62) with an audio app.
The Dome is 463 steps and the Bell Tower 414, with no lift for either; under-18s climb only with an adult. The dress code is enforced at the Cathedral and Baptistery doors: shoulders covered, knees covered, no flip-flops. Jeans are fine.
In 2026 the Dome closes for maintenance 16–20 November and the Bell Tower 9–13 November. Full hours for all five monuments are on the Duomo complex page; the pass comparison is on the tickets page.
Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo's Doni Tondo and Caravaggio in the corridors that Vasari built for the Medici offices. Open Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:30, ticket office closes 17:30, closed Monday, 1 January and 25 December. The reserved entry with audioguide is €16 (about $19), fixes your hour and leaves no limit on time inside.
Two hours covers the first-floor rooms without running. What to see and the room numbers are on the Uffizi page; every ticket option is on the Uffizi tickets page.
One statue justifies the visit, and the Prisoners in the corridor leading to it are the second reason. The timed entry to Michelangelo's David is €28 (about $33) with an audio app, open Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:50, last admission 18:10. There is no cloakroom, so leave the big bag at the hotel; water bottles above 0.5 litres are refused. The Accademia page covers the rooms; the Accademia tickets page covers every ticket option.
The piazza, the Loggia dei Lanzi and the copy of David outside the door are free and open all night. Inside, the entrance ticket with audioguide is €32 (about $37), with the Torre di Arnolfo as an add-on. The palace is a civic museum, so it opens on Monday, 9:00 to 19:00, with a short Thursday to 14:00.
The tower closes in rain. Details and the Secret Passages tour are on the Palazzo Vecchio page.
The bridge has stood since about 1345 at the Arno's narrowest point, and it was the only one in the city the retreating German army left standing on 4 August 1944. The goldsmiths are there by decree. The butchers who held the shops threw their waste straight into the river, and once the Medici used the route every day, a decree of 1565 threw them out and admitted only goldsmiths and jewellers.
Cross it once in the day for the goldsmiths and once at night when the shutters are down and the bridge is almost empty. The best photograph of it is from Ponte Santa Trinita, one bridge downstream, not from the bridge itself. The Ponte Vecchio page has the history and the Vasari Corridor that runs over the shops.
Over the river, the Medici's second palace holds the Palatine Gallery, and the garden behind it climbs to the Belvedere. The core was begun in 1458 for the banker Luca Pitti, who ran out of money and died with it unfinished. In 1549 Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, bought the house and had the hillside behind it laid out as a garden.
Boboli grew to 45,000 square metres of avenues, grottoes and statues, and became the model for the Italian formal garden that aristocratic gardens across Europe copied. The Pitti and Boboli ticket is €35 (about $41) and adds the Villa Bardini garden. Boboli closes on the first and last Monday of the month.
Pages: Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens.
It is the largest Franciscan church in the world, built with a single wide nave under an open timber roof so a preacher's voice carried to a standing crowd, and its chapels were paid for by banking families such as the Bardi and the Peruzzi. Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli are buried here, and Giotto's frescoes are in the chapels by the altar, though the Bardi Chapel is under restoration. The big seated Dante in the nave is an empty tomb.
He died in exile in Ravenna in 1321, and Ravenna kept him. Ticket €10 (about $12), plus €1 if you book online, and the Opera says the visit takes about 50 minutes. Monday to Saturday 9:30 to 17:30, Sunday 14:00 to 17:30. The Santa Croce page lists the free days for 2026.
Both are free. The piazzale is the view everyone photographs; feelflorence calls it the most visited view point in the city. San Miniato, the church five minutes further up, is open Monday to Saturday 9:30 to 13:00 and 15:30 to 19:00, and the monks sing vespers with Gregorian chant at 18:30 every day.
Bus 12 from Santa Maria Novella station saves the climb; the walk up the Rampe del Poggi from Piazza Poggi takes about fifteen minutes. Piazzale Michelangelo page.
The three Opera del Duomo passes and what each one opens. Every pass needs a booked time-slot for its first monument, so pick the pass by the climb you want. The Dome row is the dome climb ticket with the Duomo pass, €53 (about $62) with an audio app.
| Pass | What it opens | Timed slot for | Validity | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunelleschi Pass | Dome, Bell Tower, Baptistery, Museum, Santa Reparata | The Dome | 3 calendar days from the Dome date | Check Availability |
| Giotto Pass | Bell Tower, Baptistery, Museum, Santa Reparata | The Bell Tower | 3 calendar days | |
| Ghiberti Pass | Baptistery, Museum, Santa Reparata | Santa Reparata | 3 calendar days |
The Dome time-slot cannot be changed once booked, and names are checked against ID at the door. There are no single-monument tickets: every monument sits inside one of the three passes, which stay valid for 3 calendar days. Under-6s are free on every pass.
One card for each of the four tickets a first visit books first: David, the Dome, the Uffizi and Palazzo Vecchio. Prices and ratings are the booking platform's own figures, and every card shows what the ticket includes and how it cancels.
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One big museum per half-day is the counting rule behind this table — the Uffizi and the Accademia each take two hours plus the walk and the queue. Rome versus Florence is not a ranking: as planners, Florence takes three nights and Rome four.
| Days | What fits | Book ahead | Skip | Itinerary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | Dome slot at opening, Uffizi late morning, David after lunch, Piazzale Michelangelo at sunset | Dome slot, David, Uffizi | Pitti, Santa Croce, any day trip | Florence in one day |
| 2 days | Day one as above; day two Pitti and Boboli, Santa Croce, an Oltrarno evening | Same three, plus Pitti if it is a weekend | Day trips | Florence in two days |
| 3 days | Two museum days at an easy pace plus Bargello or the Medici Chapels, San Miniato vespers, a cooking class | The three timed tickets | Nothing on the must-see list | Florence in three days |
| 4+ days | The three-day plan plus a train to Pisa or Siena, or a coach to Cinque Terre | Timed tickets and the day-trip seat | A second day trip; the city is the point | Three days plus a day trip |
Which of the two cities to give the extra night to is worked through in Florence or Rome for a first trip; everything a trip needs booked, budgeted or planned around closures sits on the Florence planning hub.
Three plans built on the official opening hours, with every timed slot placed in the hour it works best and the walking minutes between stops.
One museum, one climb, one view. The Uffizi takes the 08:15 slot, the Dome comes after lunch when the weekday slots run to 18:45, and the day ends on the Piazzale with vespers at San Miniato. About €69 (about $81) in tickets and six kilometres on foot: the one-day plan.
All three timed slots on one day, the walk-up museums on the other. Day one is the Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio, Bargello and Santa Croce with the sunset from the Piazzale; day two is the Dome at 08:15, David at 11:30 and Pitti with Boboli, which closes latest. Total about €193 (about $226): the two-day plan.
The plan most readers use: the Accademia and the Dome on day one, the Uffizi and the Oltrarno on day two, and a third day that is either the quieter museums (Santa Croce, Bargello, Galileo, Brancacci) or a coach day to Tuscany or the Cinque Terre. Costs, walks and the book-first order are on the three-day plan.
The Florentine steak is a thick T-bone from Chianina cattle, grilled rare and priced by weight, so the figure on the menu is per hundred grams and one cut normally feeds two or more people. Ask what the piece weighs before it goes on the grill, not after it reaches the table. The city's own fast food is offal: lampredotto, the fourth stomach of a cow simmered for hours in broth and stuffed into a roll whose crown has been dipped in the cooking liquid, and trippa alla fiorentina, both sold at market counters and from street carts.
Schiacciata, the salted flatbread split and filled to order, is also sold by weight, at bakeries. Two habits worth learning before you sit down: the coperto, the per-person cover charge, belongs printed on the menu, and a wine bar legitimately charges less at the counter than at a table. Some palazzo walls have reopened their buchette del vino, the arched wine windows cut for selling by the flask.
What to order and where is on what to eat and where, the guided version on tastings and cooking classes, and the easiest first meal upstairs at Mercato Centrale, open to 23:00.
Four fixtures move the whole city. On Easter Sunday the Scoppio del Carro sends a dove-shaped rocket down a wire from the cathedral altar into a cart of fireworks in Piazza del Duomo, late in the morning — 28 March in 2027 — and the Duomo complex is closed to visitors that day. In June the four historic quarters play the Calcio Storico in Piazza Santa Croce, and the final falls on 24 June, the feast of San Giovanni, the city's patron, which ends with fireworks fired from Piazzale Michelangelo at night.
Pitti Uomo fills the Fortezza da Basso twice a year, 12 to 15 January and 15 to 18 June in 2027, and hotel rates across the centre rise with it, so fix your dates against the fair calendar rather than after booking. The fourth is quieter and in your favour: the first Sunday of every month is free at the state museums with no reservation, which also means a queue from before opening. Dates in full on the events calendar, the room-rate side on where to stay, and the closures on what is open on a Monday.
Four things, none of them dramatic. Outside the Baptistery someone will knot a bracelet onto your wrist as a gift and then ask to be paid for it; hands down, keep walking. Pickpocketing is reported in dense crowds rather than in bad districts — the Piazzale Michelangelo terrace before sunset, the strip between the cathedral and Piazza della Signoria, the station, and the small C-line minibuses that thread the centre.
The comune publishes no crime figures by district, so we quote none. Drivers get caught by the ZTL cameras, which run Monday to Friday and on Saturday mornings: a hotel inside the zone has to register your plate on arrival, the fine amount is not published, and the notice travels through the hire company, so it does not reach you in Italy. Restaurants surprise people with the coperto, the cover charge that belongs on the menu before you sit down.
One thing that is not a problem: the tap water is drinkable, and the fontanelli, the city's high-quality drinking fountains, pour the same water refined for taste. How each approach works is on the scams page; the driving rules are on the ZTL and park-and-ride.
Mean daily temperature by month, averaged from the Open-Meteo ERA5 archive for 2016 to 2025 at the city centre, in Celsius with Fahrenheit underneath. The bands below the bars come from the museum calendar and the tourist-tax year, not from opinion.
Daily high temperatures, thirty-year mean (Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis, 1995–2024). July is the hottest month at 30.4°C (87°F); November the wettest at about 131 mm, July the driest at about 28 mm. Month-by-month detail and crowd notes are on the best time to visit.
What the museum calendar does to each month, taken from the official pages: the first Sunday of every month is free at the state museums with no reservation, the Dome and Bell Tower have fixed maintenance weeks in November, and the tourist tax runs on the 2025 table all year.
| Month | Crowds | Museum notes | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | Low | Free first Sunday at Uffizi, Pitti, Boboli, Accademia, Bargello, Medici Chapels; Boboli closes 16:30 | Museums without slots selling out |
| February | Low | Free first Sunday; short daylight, Boboli closes 16:30 | Uffizi at the 8:15 slot with empty rooms |
| March | Rising | Free first Sunday; Firenzecard restart option live from 1 March | Boboli and Piazzale Michelangelo before the heat |
| April | High from Easter | Easter Sunday: whole Duomo complex closed; free entry 25 April at Accademia and Bargello | Walking days, Fiesole |
| May | High | Free first Sunday; Dome slots sell out a fortnight ahead | Chianti and Val d'Orcia day trips |
| June | Peak | Free entry 2 June at Accademia; Boboli open to 19:10 | Long evenings on the Oltrarno |
| July | Peak | Vasari Corridor Friday-evening openings start 3 July; 32°C afternoons | Museums in the afternoon heat, Dome at 8:15 |
| August | Peak | Night of San Lorenzo 10 August: Medici Chapels open to 23:00 | Early starts and late-afternoon museum hours |
| September | High | Free first Sunday; Palazzo Strozzi show opens 25 September | Cooking classes, Cinque Terre |
| October | High to falling | Free first Sunday; Santa Croce free day 4 October; Boboli closes 17:30 | Best light for Piazzale Michelangelo |
| November | Low | Bell Tower closed 9–13 November 2026; Dome closed 16–20 November 2026; Santa Croce free 8 November; Vasari Fridays end 20 November | Uffizi and Accademia without a queue |
| December | Low, then holiday spike | Whole Duomo complex closed 25 December; Uffizi closed 25 December and 1 January | Markets, Mercato Centrale to 23:00 |
You walk almost all of it. The Duomo to Piazzale Michelangelo is thirty minutes on foot, and no two sights on the must-see list are more than twenty apart. For the airport and the hill, use the tram and the bus.
Since 1 August 2026 a single urban ticket costs €2.00 (about $2.30) for 90 minutes on trams and city buses, or €3.00 (about $3.50) if you buy it on board, and a carnet of 10 is €18.20. Tram T2 links Amerigo Vespucci airport to the centre on that same ticket, so the €2 ride is the airport transfer. The 2026 fare sheet lists no 24-hour pass.
Do not drive into the centre. The ZTL cameras run Monday to Friday 7:30 to 20:00 and Saturday 7:30 to 16:00, off on Sundays and holidays, and from the first Thursday of April to the first Sunday of October a summer night ZTL adds Thursday to Saturday 23:00 to 03:00. A hotel inside the zone can register you: give your plate to reception on arrival and they transmit it to the Municipal Police.
The fine amount is not stated on the city's page. Otherwise leave the car at a Parcheggi Scambiatori park-and-ride on the edge and ride in. Routes, stops and the walking times between areas are on tram, bus and the ZTL.
Two things the city adds to a first visit that the hotel rate does not show: the tourist tax, charged per person per night on the 2025 table that feelflorence still lists as current, and the museum tickets, which add up faster than people expect. A whole day, bed and food included, is costed three ways on what Florence costs a day.
Charged by the hotel at checkout, for up to 7 nights, with children under 12 exempt. The B&B and holiday-flat rate is the same as a 3-star hotel.
| Category | Per person per night | Approx. USD |
|---|---|---|
| 1-star hotel | €3.50 | $4 |
| 2-star hotel | €4.50 | $5 |
| 3-star hotel | €6 | $7 |
| 4-star hotel | €7 | $8 |
| 5-star hotel | €8 | $9 |
| B&B room, holiday flat, tourist lease | €6 | $7 |
| Youth hostel | €4 | $5 |
Adult prices for the tickets a first visit books, using the ticket we link where we list one and the basilica's own price for Santa Croce. The Duomo complex is not included in the Firenzecard, €85 (about $99) for 72 hours, and the Uffizi, Accademia and Palazzo Vecchio still need a reservation with it. The €28 restart adds 48 hours to an expired card.
What it covers is on what the Firenzecard covers in 72 hours.
| Ticket | Price | Approx. USD | Slot needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dome climb with the Duomo pass | €53 | $62 | Yes, Dome |
| Uffizi reserved entry | €16 | $19 | Yes |
| David timed entry | €28 | $33 | Yes |
| Palazzo Vecchio with audioguide | €32 | $37 | No |
| Pitti + Boboli | €35 | $41 | Yes, Palatine Gallery |
| Santa Croce + €1 online fee | €11 | $13 | No |
| Three-day total | €175 | about $205 | Four timed slots |
Florence has two museum systems and they close on different days. The state museums, which means the Uffizi, the Accademia, the Bargello, the Medici Chapels and the Pitti Palace, shut every Monday. The civic museums stay open: Palazzo Vecchio runs Monday 9:00 to 19:00, and the Brancacci Chapel takes its day off on Tuesday instead. Boboli is its own case, closed on the first and last Monday of the month. So a Monday arrival goes to Palazzo Vecchio, the Duomo complex, Santa Croce and the Oltrarno streets, and the Uffizi waits for Tuesday.
Sunday inverts it. The state museums are open, and on the first Sunday of every month they are free with no reservation, which means a queue at the gate from before 8:15. The Cathedral nave, free on every other day, is closed to visitors on Sundays for services, and the Dome opens late, 12:45 to 16:30. The Museo di San Marco, with Fra Angelico's cells, belongs on any museum list, but its official page could not be reached when we checked, so no price or hours are printed here. Every museum with its hours and closed days is on what is open on a Monday.
Pisa is an hour by regional train and Siena an hour and a half, so a single town is a DIY day. Three towns in a day, or the Cinque Terre with its change at La Spezia, is where a coach earns its seat. The train column for every destination is on Pisa, Siena and Chianti by train or by tour.
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Every area worth sleeping in is under twenty minutes' walk from the Duomo, so the choice is about evenings and noise, not distance: the Centro Storico for a first visit, Santa Maria Novella for train days, the Oltrarno for dinner streets that empty of day-trippers at six. The six areas are compared, with tourist tax and the ZTL rule for drivers, on neighbourhoods compared by walk time to the Duomo.
The things visitors ask before they book anything, answered from the pages that own them.
Violent crime is rare and the real risk is pickpocketing in three predictable places: the queue outside the Uffizi, the crowd on Ponte Vecchio and the platforms at Santa Maria Novella. The friendship-bracelet approach near the Baptistery is the scam you will actually meet. The scams, and the emergency numbers.
Italian strikes are announced at least ten days ahead on the Ministry's register at scioperi.mit.gov.it, and the law protects commuting windows: regional trains still run 06:00–09:00 and 18:00–21:00, city buses 04:15–08:14 and 12:30–14:29. Plan inside those bands and you lose an afternoon, not a trip. How to read a strike notice.
Yes. Publiacqua treats about 90 per cent of the city's supply from the Arno at the Anconella plant and publishes the analysis; the Florence readings show pH 7.6, nitrates at 4 mg/L and sodium at 26 mg/L. Ask for acqua del rubinetto and it is free. Where the free fountains are.
Two nights buys the Duomo complex, one of the two big galleries and an evening in the Oltrarno, which is a real visit rather than a rushed one. Three nights is where the second gallery and a hill town fit without cutting anything. The honest case, and against.
About $118 (€101) a person on a careful day, $246 (€210) mid-range and $358 (€306) comfortable, sharing a double room midweek. The bed is roughly two thirds of the careful day; the six tickets a first visit books come to about $205 (€175) in total. Three budgets, itemised.
The ones that buy something you cannot walk up and buy: the Vasari Corridor, which has no public door, the guide-only passages inside Palazzo Vecchio, and any day in Chianti, where no railway goes. Every tour compared, with what each includes.
The Renaissance happened here: Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo's David, Botticelli's Birth of Venus in the Uffizi, and the Medici palaces that paid for it all. Add leather, the Ponte Vecchio goldsmiths and the bistecca. The eight places on the must-see list are where those things are, in walking order.
Eight places carry a first trip: the Duomo complex, the Uffizi, the Accademia, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, the Ponte Vecchio, Santa Croce, Pitti Palace with the Boboli Gardens, and the view from Piazzale Michelangelo at sunset. They sit in the must-see list in walking order, and only three of them need a timed slot booked before you fly.
Yes, end to end. Santa Maria Novella station to the Duomo is about thirteen minutes on foot, the Duomo to the Uffizi about nine, and the whole historic centre is a walk of roughly half an hour across. The two things that are not walks are Piazzale Michelangelo, which is a climb or bus 12 and 13, and the airport. Tram, bus and the ZTL has the routes and the walking times between areas.
Yes. The rule that matters is the dress code at the Cathedral and Baptistery: shoulders and knees covered, no flip-flops, checked at the door. Jeans pass. Shorts above the knee do not. Details for each monument are on the Duomo complex page.
From April to October, yes, for both. The timed entry to Michelangelo's David is €28 and the Uffizi reserved entry is €16, both with an audio app and free cancellation up to 24 hours before. Every option is on the Uffizi tickets page and the Accademia tickets page.
Winters are mild and damp, summers hot and still. On the thirty-year mean January averages a high of 9.6°C (49°F), July is the hottest month at 30.4°C, and November is the wettest at 131 mm across about thirteen rainy days. April to May and late September to October sit at 18–25°C. The best time to visit has the full month-by-month table.
Firenze, pronounced fee-REN-tseh. It is the name on every station board, road sign and train ticket, so look for Firenze Santa Maria Novella when you book a train, and Firenze Peretola for the airport. The getting around page has both.
Three filmed guides to the city — one practical, one classic, one planning-focused. Between them they cover what the written pages here cannot: the pace of the streets and the distances between the sights.
Practical tips on tickets, timing and transport, gathered from a full visit.
Video: Camden DavidA tour of the Renaissance city and the works that made it, from a long-running travel series.
Video: Rick Steves' EuropeHow to structure a first trip: how many days, which museums to book, what order.
Video: Sharing the RoadVideos load from YouTube only when you press play.
The office, phone and email above belong to the city's own visitor service, published on the official tourism site and checked on 2026-08-29 — they are not this site's contact details. To reach us, use the contact page.
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