ACCADEMIA GALLERY GUIDED TOUR
Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in English
Language: English
Frequency: every day except Monday. From 1 November to 31 March, this tour takes place every day except on Monday and on Wednesday.
Tour Starting time: 11.15 am
Duration: about 1 hour
Price: 42,00 euro per person
Price includes: guided tour, pre-booking fee, ticket and earphones for groups with more than 15 participants.
This tour will take place rain or shine and from 1 participant onwards
Children: free under 6 years of age
Meeting point with your guide: in front of the Academy Gallery, pre-booked entrance tickets included. Please arrive 15 minutes before the tour starting time.
MAJOR ADVANTAGE: the visit uses only one single language at a time. Timed Entry, no need to queue. Don’t waste precious time waiting in long lines. Enter with us.
Accademia Gallery is the second most visited museum in Florence. Why? Because in this wonderful gallery is conserved the symbol of the city of Florence: the Michelangelo's David. The monumental icon has a long important history: the colossal piece of marble was worked by the genius of Michelangelo between 1501 and 1504.
This masterpiece symbolizes the politician power of the Florentine against the Medici's domain, for this reason its first location was Signoria Square. To preserve the statue from atmospheric agents it was decided to move it inside the Accademia Gallery and for the occasion the Tribuna of Michelangelo was built by Emilio de Fabris. This important museum is the crib of other beautiful works by Michelangelo: the Prisoners and Saint Matthew. This last work tells the brilliant technique of Michelangelo Buonarroti: the unfinished; thanks to this new way of sculpting, this incredible artist has created a more spititual vision of the works, leaving space for the spitituality that creeps into the strong white marble.
In the first room of the museum another important work of Florence is preserved: the Rape of sabine women by Giambologna. This plaster statue is the preparatory work of the marble work located under the Loggia dei Lanzi in Signoria Square. The characteristic of this statue is the powerful dynamism of the three fugures that make this a work to be observed at 360 degrees.
Even though it is a small museum, very important masterpieces are in Accademia Gallery. this museum is a treasure chest that we suggest to visit of sure!
