Florence Tickets: Every Official Price and What to Book

Five tickets in Florence run on a timed slot that genuinely disappears. Everything else on this page is a queue at worst. Book in this order and the rest of the trip stays flexible.

The Uffizi comes first because it is both the busiest and the strictest: the advance ticket is dated, timed and carries each visitor's name, and between April and October the morning slots go days ahead. The same-day ticket at €25 (about $29) is €4 cheaper than the €29 advance one, which is the reverse of what most cities do — you pay the premium for certainty, not for the ticket. The €16 afternoon ticket for entry from 16:00 exists only at the door.

The Accademia is second. Entry is €20 with a €4 reservation fee, and the museum's own wording is that without a reservation the wait for access may be long. A dozen shops sell what they call skip-the-line David tickets; what they are selling is that €4 reservation with a mark-up, which is worth paying only if the same order fixes your time.

The Vasari Corridor is third and different: booking is not advice but a rule. The ticket is nominative, personal, non-transferable and non-refundable, you must be at the meeting point five minutes before the slot, and the corridor only opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:15. Fourth is the Brunelleschi Pass at €30 (about $35): the pass itself is generous, but the dome slot is fixed when you buy and cannot be changed or cancelled, and the site sells at most ten tickets per order. Fifth is the Brancacci Chapel, where ten people enter per 30-minute slot — a number that decides itself.

• 1. Uffizi — timed and named; book 2 to 4 weeks ahead for a summer morning
• 2. Accademia — €20 plus the €4 reservation; the fee is the product
• 3. Vasari Corridor — booking mandatory, non-refundable, first entry 10:15
• 4. Brunelleschi Pass — the dome slot cannot be changed once bought
• 5. Brancacci Chapel — ten people per 30 minutes
• Everything else: walk up. There is no queue to skip at the Bargello, and no product worth paying a mark-up for.

Five channels between them sell every ticket in the table above, and each venue recognises exactly one of them. This matters because the searches that bring people here — b ticket florence, the Duomo official site — are people who landed in the wrong shop and want to know which is the right one. None of these charges a booking fee beyond the reservation fees already printed in the table; the figures below were checked against each venue's own ticket page on 28 August 2026.

B-ticket is the plainest trap of the five. It is a Swiss ticketing platform, it looks nothing like a museum website, and it is nonetheless the authorised shop for David — so a visitor who reaches it while searching for the Uffizi assumes it is a reseller and leaves, while a visitor who reaches tickets.uffizi.it looking for David finds no David there at all. The Accademia ticket page shows the screens; the Uffizi ticket page does the same for the gallery.

The reserved-entry cards on this site are GetYourGuide products priced in dollars. They buy the same entrance as the official euro ticket, usually with a fixed slot, an audio app and free cancellation up to 24 hours before, which the official ticket does not offer. Compare the two columns before clicking: on some dates the card is cheaper than the official advance price, on others it is not.

There is no single pass for Florence. Four exist, run by three different institutions, and each covers a set the others do not touch — which is why the answer to whether a pass is worth it depends entirely on which four or five buildings you intend to enter. Prices below come from firenzecard.it, uffizi.it and galleriaaccademiafirenze.it on 28 August 2026; the last column is the smallest visit that makes each one pay, worked from the same-day single prices in the table above.

The pattern is easy to miss: the Firenzecard is the only one that includes the civic museums, the PassePartout is the only route to a cheap Boboli, and the two Bargello-group tickets are the only way to bring David's price down. None of the four covers the Duomo monuments, which is the single most common assumption we saw in the forum threads behind this page. If your plan has the dome in it, budget the pass for the Duomo monuments on top, whatever else you buy.

Whether the €85 card clears its own bar, what the €28 restart adds, and which reservations you still have to make are all worked out on the Firenzecard page.

Four separate discounts run in Florence and almost nobody uses more than one of them.

The first Sunday of every month is free at the state museums: the Uffizi, the Accademia, Pitti, Boboli, the Bargello, the Medici Chapels and Orsanmichele. There is no reservation on those days — the ticket is issued at the entrance, which means the queue is the longest of the month and the doors are the only way in. The Bargello and the Medici Chapels add 25 April and 4 November 2026; the Accademia adds 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. Santa Croce runs its own free list for 2026: 15 August, 14 September, 26 and 27 September, 4 October, 8 November, 20 December and 26 December, with no online booking and last entry at 16:30.

The second is the clock. The Uffizi sells a €16 ticket (about $19) for entry from 16:00, which is nine euro less than the same-day morning price for the same rooms. Palazzo Strozzi charges €15 for a dated ticket against €20 for an open one. Palazzo Medici Riccardi drops from €15 to €10 between November and February.

The third is age and nationality. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2 at the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Medici Chapels and €3 at Pitti and Boboli, with ID at the door. Anyone under 18 of any nationality enters the state museums free, and still needs a slot. On the Duomo passes the reduced band is ages 7 to 14 — €12, €7 or €5 depending on the pass — and children under 6 go free; students of any age can buy the Ghiberti Pass for €5, but only at the ticket office, never online.

The fourth is the cross-discount nobody advertises: a Santa Croce ticket brings Museo Galileo down from €14 to €10, and the two are a four-minute walk apart.

• First Sunday of the month: free at the seven state museums, no booking, longest queues
• From 16:00: the Uffizi at €16 instead of €25, sold at the door only
• EU 18–25: €2 or €3 with ID; under 18 free but still slotted
• Santa Croce ticket in hand: Museo Galileo at €10

A first day in Florence can cost nothing. The cathedral nave is free to visitors Monday to Saturday 10:15–15:45 — no ticket, no booking, and the dress rule applies: shoulders covered, knees covered, no flip-flops. San Miniato al Monte, the finest Romanesque church in the city, is free every day, with vespers sung in Latin at 18:30. Santo Spirito is free apart from its €2 sacristy. Ponte Vecchio is a public bridge and Piazzale Michelangelo a public square, both open at any hour. Mercato Centrale's food hall runs 09:00–23:00 every day, and Piazza della Signoria is an open-air sculpture gallery with a Neptune fountain and a copy of David standing where the original stood.

What this list does not include is the rest of the Duomo complex. The dome, the bell tower, the Baptistery, the museum and the Santa Reparata excavations are sold only inside a three-day pass, from €15 (about $18), and there is no single-monument ticket at any price. The churches page compares the free ones against the ticketed ones, and the attractions list puts the free squares and viewpoints into a walking order.

Tickets in Florence are dated, and several venues have dates in 2026 when they simply are not open. The dome is closed for maintenance from 16 to 20 November 2026 and the bell tower from 9 to 13 November 2026, so a Brunelleschi Pass bought for that week loses its headline monument. Casa Martelli, one of the six museums on the €38 ticket, is closed until 31 December 2026 — the pass is still worth buying, but it covers five museums in practice, not six. The Museo Novecento has its permanent collection away at Castelfiorentino until 20 September 2026, so the €13 buys the temporary shows.

Then there is the weekly pattern, which catches more visitors than any of the above: every state museum in this table closes on Mondays, the civic museums each take a different day, and the Boboli Gardens shut on the first and last Monday of the month. Which sights open on a Monday has the whole week as a table, and the Duomo complex — open seven days — is usually the answer.

Florence inverts the usual rule. At the state galleries, buying ahead costs more, not less: the Uffizi is €25 at the ticket office and €29 online, Pitti €16 against €19, Boboli €10 against €13. There is no presale fee as such — the advance price is simply higher, which comes to the same thing. The B-ticket museums work the other way round: the Accademia's €4 and the Bargello's €4 are fees, so the door is cheaper there too, when the door is an option.

So the honest split is this. In November, January and February, on a weekday, at 08:15, walk up to almost anything and pay less. Between April and October, on a Saturday, or on any public holiday, book the two timed museums and accept the premium — a €4 surcharge against a wasted morning is not a close call. Between the two extremes sit the reserved-entry cards, which cost more than the door and less than a lost slot, and cancel free up to 24 hours before: the Uffizi slot, the David slot and the dome climb are the three that carry that value.

One more thing the shops do not tell you: the Uffizi and Palazzo Vecchio tickets are named. Spell the names as they appear on the passports, because staff may ask for ID at the door.