About Florence City Guide

Why this site exists

Florence punishes vague advice. The Duomo is free to enter but the dome, the campanile, the baptistery and the crypt sit behind a pass you have to choose between; the Uffizi and the Accademia both need a timed slot and both close on Mondays; half the city's smaller museums close on days that no two blogs agree on. Guides written years ago still quote retired ticket names and old opening hours, and nothing on the page tells you how old the number is.

So every hour and closed day here, and every price where we list no ticket, is read off the official page of the building itself, and the whole guide is re-read once a quarter. Each page prints the quarter it was last reviewed in and when the next review is due, so you can see how old a number is and when it will be checked again. Where the official source does not state a figure, the page says not stated instead of borrowing a plausible one.

Where the information comes from

Opening hours, closed days and ticket rules come from the official sites of the institutions themselves — uffizi.it, tickets.duomo.firenze.it, galleriaaccademiafirenze.it, bigliettimusei.comune.fi.it — plus feelflorence.it for city information and at-bus.it and trenitalia.com for the transport that gets you to Pisa, Siena or Lucca. Each page prints the source and the check date in its freshness box. Tour and ticket prices, durations, ratings and review counts are the booking platform's own published numbers, read on the date shown on the card.

Practical detail about the city — which entrance moves fastest, where the free viewpoints are, what a bar charges you extra to sit down — is cross-checked against several published sources and recent visitor reports rather than taken from any one of them. Platform prices across the site are shown in euro, converted from the listed figure at €1 = $1.17 on 29 August 2026; the platform bills in the currency of your own account.

What we do not claim

There is no invented author here, no character who lives in the Oltrarno and no claim that someone from this site stood in a particular queue on a particular morning. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, and we do not inspect museums or audit any operator.

We also hold no bookings. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour is sold on, where the price, the terms and the cancellation window are theirs. Where we list a ticket for an entry, the page links to that ticket, and every one is on Florence tickets. Where we list none, the official site is linked plainly, without any tracking on the link.

How the site pays for itself

Tour and activity links on this site are affiliate links: book through one and the platform pays us a commission, at the same price you would have paid going there yourself. That pays for the research and buys nothing else — not placement, not a rating, not the wording of a recommendation. Where we list no ticket, the page names the official site even though that link earns nothing.

The mechanics are set out on the affiliate disclosure page.

Corrections

Museum hours in Florence change with the season, ticket systems get renamed and prices move every year. If a number here is out of date, write to us with what you found and when you were there. A corrected figure is worth more than a defended one.