Florence City GuideAbout Florence City Guide
An independent, unofficial guide to visiting Florence, Italy — what to see, which ticket to buy for which building, and how to spend one, two or three days without queueing for things that do not need queueing for. We are not the Comune di Firenze, the Gallerie degli Uffizi, the Opera del Duomo or a tour operator, and we sell nothing. The whole guide starts on the Florence city guide homepage, and every figure on the site carries the date it was last read.
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 price, hour and closed day here is read off the official page of the building itself and stamped with the date it was read. 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, ticket names and admission prices 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 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.
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. Official ticket offices are linked plainly, without any tracking on the link, whenever buying direct is the better move — which for several of the Florence tickets covered here it is.
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 the official ticket office is cheaper or the only sensible option, the page says so 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.