The David + City Walking Tour
ACCADEMIA GALLERY AND FLORENCE WALKING TOUR COMBINATION
This tour combination includes the Accademia Gallery, home of Michelangelo's David and a city walking tour to explore Florence city centre and its main monuments and churches.
The tour starts at the Accademia Gallery around 11:00 am. Visitors stay inside the Accademia for about 1 hour. Then they will have a short 1-hour break. The visit continues with the city centre walking tour, from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza Duomo, Piazza della Signoria up to the Old Bridge.
Language: English
Frequency: every day except Monday
From 1 November to 31 March, this tour is run only on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Starting time: 11.15 am
Duration: about 2,5 hours
Price: € 58 euro per person instead of € 67 combination special rate
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. Childre 6-14 years old pay reduced price ticket € 38 if in company od an adult participant.
Meeting point with your guide: in front of the Accademia Gallery, Via Ricasoli 60. Please arrive 15 minutes before the above 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.
Piazza della Signoria in Florence
Piazza della Signoria - the political heart of Florence
Since Medieval times this has been the political heart of Florence. The square owes its original form to the Gulephs who, at the end of the 13th century, on regaining control of the city, destroyed the houses of the Ghibellines, beginning with the towers of Foraboschi and Uberti.
The square is a veritable open air museum, a stage on which the statues act out the most important artistic events in the city's history.
On the South side of the square, in front of Palazzo Vecchio, is the Piazzale of the Uffizi, bordered by the Loggia dei Lanzi (1376-82), designed by Orcagna and finished by his brother in 1382. The Loggia was named "dei Lanzi" after Cosimo I's bodyguards, the Lanzichenecchi. Under the late Gothic vaults of the loggia are 15 statues some of which are copies.
Here you find the extraordinary Perseus holding the head of Medusa, by Benvenuto Cellini. Another famous statue is the Rape of the Sabines, the dynamic statue by Giambologna (1583). This statue was sculpted from a single block of marble. The work is thought to be the first group of European sculpture created so as to be seen perfectly from all sides.
Florence & the David: the Itinerary
This itinerary will let you discover the town’s best known treasures such as the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, the squares, the monuments, the Old Bridge. Explore the town center from an extraordinary perspective. An excellent and complete introductory tour – with guaranteed departure – dedicated to those who want to know all the facts and secrets of two thousands years of Florentine history.
The tour will continue with the visit of the Academy. See Michelangelo’s famous David and the unfinished “Prisoners”. Included is a detailed introduction to Michelangelo’s life and his extraordinary era.
