Florence City Guide
Things to Do in Florence
Twenty-five things to do in Florence, ranked in the order a first visit should take them and numbered to the pins on the map. Each card carries the adult price, the closed day and a book-ahead tier of one to three dots. Where we list a ticket the price is that ticket's, and elsewhere it is the venue's own. Nine of the twenty-five cost nothing.
Quick answer The three to book, the nine that are free, what a two-day visitor drops
Three Florence attractions need a booking made days or weeks ahead: the Dome climb, the David and the Uffizi. Everything else on this list sells a ticket at the door or costs nothing. Prices and closing days for all of them are on the cards below, gathered from Florence guided tours.
Key takeaways
- Book in this order: the timed entry to David, then the Dome climb ticket with the Duomo pass, then an Uffizi slot from the Uffizi timed-entry options.
- Free with no ticket: the Cathedral nave, Piazza della Signoria and the Loggia dei Lanzi, Ponte Vecchio, Mercato Centrale, Piazzale Michelangelo, San Miniato al Monte, and every state museum on the first Sunday of the month.
- With two days, drop Palazzo Strozzi, Orsanmichele and Museo Galileo; keep the Bargello if you like sculpture. The ten stops that fit in one day is the tighter cut.
The 25 places to visit, grouped by area and numbered to the map
Sort by rating, price or time needed with the chips, or filter by district. Ratings and review counts are the booking platform's own figures for the linked ticket; where no ticket card exists the rating field stays empty rather than borrowing one. Time needed is the official figure where a venue publishes one.
Duomo complex
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Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
Cathedral Free30 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The nave is free and needs no ticket: Monday to Saturday 10:15 to 15:45, closed to visitors on Sundays and religious holidays. The inside is plainer than the marble outside promises; the Last Judgement under the dome is the reason to go in. Shoulders and knees covered, no flip-flops, checked at the door.
Tip: The queue for the free nave is longest at 10:15 when it opens; come at 14:30 and walk in.
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Brunelleschi's Dome
Climb★ 4.5 (5,717) from €5345 minbook-ahead tier 3 of 3
Only the Brunelleschi Pass opens the Dome, and the pass needs a booked time-slot for the climb that is fixed once booked. The dome climb ticket with the 3-day Duomo pass is €53 (about $62) with an audio app, rated 4.5 from 5,717 reviews, and it cancels free up to 24 hours before. 463 steps, no lift, under-18s only with an adult, official time about 45 min. Slots Monday to Friday 8:15 to 18:45, Saturday to 16:30, Sunday and holidays 12:45 to 16:30. Closed for maintenance 16–20 November 2026.
Tip: The 8:15 slot puts you on the lantern before the first coach parties reach the piazza.
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Giotto's Bell Tower
Climb from €2045 minbook-ahead tier 2 of 3
414 steps in a narrower stair than the Dome, with landings that let you rest. It is the climb with the Dome in the picture. The tower is on the dome climb ticket with the Duomo pass, and the Giotto Pass at €20 (about $23) sells it without the Dome. Daily 8:15 to 18:45. The tower is under restoration in 2026: the terrace stays open but the view is partly reduced by scaffolding, and it closes 9–13 November 2026.
Tip: If you want photographs of the Dome rather than from it, this is the climb to buy.
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Baptistery of San Giovanni
Baptistery from €1530 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The Ghiberti Pass at €15 (about $18) covers it with the Museum and Santa Reparata, and is €5 for students of any age at the ticket office only. Daily 8:30 to 19:30, closing at 13:30 on the first Sunday of the month. The vault mosaics are under restoration and not visible in 2026, so the ceiling you came for is behind scaffolding; the Gates of Paradise outside are copies, with the originals in the Museum next door.
Tip: Go straight to the Museum for the real Ghiberti doors; the Baptistery interior is a shorter visit than usual this year.
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Opera del Duomo Museum
Museum from €1560–90 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Included in every pass, and the best hour of the whole complex: Ghiberti's original doors, Donatello's Magdalene, Michelangelo's late Pietà, and a full-scale reconstruction of the medieval façade. Daily 8:30 to 19:00, closed the first Tuesday of the month; the Opera says 60–90 minutes.
Tip: Do it last, in the late afternoon, once the climb slot and the Baptistery are done; it stays open longest.
Museums
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Uffizi Gallery
Museum★ 4.3 (1,856) from €162 hbook-ahead tier 3 of 3
The reserved-entry ticket with audioguide is €16 (about $19), rated 4.3 from 1,856 reviews, with unlimited time inside once you are through the door. Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:30, closed Mondays. First Sunday of the month free without reservation, with the queue that implies. What to see room by room is on Uffizi Gallery rooms worth the queue.
Tip: Two hours is enough for the first floor; skip the ground-floor temporary shows unless the name on the poster means something to you.
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Accademia Gallery and the David
Museum★ 4.6 (21,262) from €281 hbook-ahead tier 3 of 3
Timed entry with an audio app is €28 (about $33), Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:50, last admission 18:10. No cloakroom: large bags are refused and water is limited to 0.5 litres. Free on the first Sunday of the month and on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November 2026, with no booking and a queue at the gate. Rated 4.6 from 21,262 reviews, it is the most-reviewed ticket in the city. See Accademia and the David.
Tip: Book the last slot of the day, 18:10, in summer; the room around David thins out after the coach groups leave at five.
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Palazzo Vecchio and the Torre di Arnolfo
Civic museum★ 4.4 (5,066) from €321.5 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The entrance ticket with audioguide is €32 (about $37), rated 4.4 from 5,066 reviews, and the Torre di Arnolfo is an add-on. A civic museum, so it opens Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Sunday 9:00 to 19:00, with Thursday cut to 14:00. The tower closes in rain and, on red heat-alert days, to the walkway only. The Secret Passages tour takes a maximum of 10 per slot.
Tip: This is your Monday museum while the state ones are shut; the Salone dei Cinquecento is empty at 9:00.
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Bargello
State museum★ 4.6 (811) from €191.5 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Donatello's bronze David and Michelangelo's Bacchus in a medieval prison, with a fraction of the Uffizi's crowd. The reserved entry is €19 (about $22), rated 4.6 from 811 reviews, and it fixes your hour. Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:50, closed Mondays.
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Medici Chapels
State museum★ 4.5 (4,129) from €181 hbook-ahead tier 2 of 3
Michelangelo's New Sacristy with Dawn, Dusk, Day and Night, and the marble-clad Chapel of the Princes. The reserved-entrance ticket is €18 (about $21), rated 4.5 from 4,129 reviews. The combination with Michelangelo's secret room is €32 and booking for that is mandatory. Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:50.
Tip: The secret room admits a handful at a time; if the drawings matter to you, book the €32 combo weeks out.
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Museo Galileo
Science museum★ 4.5 (1,593) from €171.5 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Galileo's own telescopes and the Medici's instrument collection, two minutes from the Uffizi exit. The entry ticket, sold by the museum itself, is €17 (about $20) and rated 4.5 from 1,593 reviews. A family ticket covers two adults and two under-18s. Monday and Wednesday to Sunday 9:30 to 18:00, Tuesday 9:30 to 13:00 only.
Tip: Come on any day but Tuesday afternoon, when the museum has already shut at 13:00.
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Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Palace from €1545 minbook-ahead tier 2 of 3
Gozzoli's Chapel of the Magi, the first Medici palace, and the reason to book: the chapel admits 10 people per 5 minutes. €15 (about $18) from 1 March to 1 November, €10 in low season, €1.50 presale; closed Wednesdays. The entrance moves to Via de' Ginori 2 from 27 August 2026.
Tip: Online tickets are dated and timed and cannot be changed; buy the day before once the weather is known.
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Palazzo Strozzi
Exhibition palace from €151.5 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Florence's big-show venue, with nothing permanent: the galleries are closed between exhibitions. Dated ticket €15, open-date €20, youth 6–18 €5. Daily 10:00 to 20:00, Thursday to 23:00. The next show, 'Broken: The Power of the Fragment', runs 25 September 2026 to 24 January 2027.
Tip: Check the dates before you count on it; between shows the courtyard is open and the rooms are not.
Piazzas and bridges
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Piazza della Signoria and the Loggia dei Lanzi
Square Free30 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
An open-air sculpture gallery that costs nothing: Cellini's Perseus and Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women under the loggia, the copy of David at the palace door, Ammannati's Neptune fountain. Open all hours. The originals of several loggia pieces are in the Bargello and Uffizi a few doors away.
Tip: Come back after 22:00; the piazza is lit, the loggia is empty and the sculptures read better in lamplight.
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Ponte Vecchio
Bridge Free20 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Goldsmiths since 1593, the Vasari Corridor running over the shop roofs, and the only Florentine bridge the retreating army left standing in 1944. Free, always open, and packed between 11:00 and 19:00. The view of it belongs to Ponte Santa Trinita, one bridge downstream. Ponte Vecchio guide.
Tip: Cross at 7:30 for the closed shutters with the painted fronts, and again at dusk from Santa Trinita.
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Mercato Centrale
Market Free1 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The first-floor food hall is open every day 9:00 to 23:00 with free entry, and it is where the lampredotto, the truffle pasta and the Chianti by the glass sit under one iron roof. The ground-floor produce market keeps its own, earlier hours. It is the lunch stop on the one-day plan.
Tip: Eat downstairs at Nerbone before 13:00 if you want the old market; upstairs stays open when everything around San Lorenzo has shut.
Churches
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Santa Croce
Basilica from €1050 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli, Giotto's chapels by the altar, and the Pazzi Chapel in the cloister. €10 (about $12), reduced €6, €1 online booking fee; the Opera says roughly 50 minutes. Monday to Saturday 9:30 to 17:30, Sunday 14:00 to 17:30. The Bardi Chapel is under restoration. Free days in 2026 include 4 October and 8 November.
Tip: Free disposable robes are handed out at the door for bare shoulders, so a sundress does not send you back to the hotel.
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Santa Maria Novella
Basilica from €7.501 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Masaccio's Trinity, Ghirlandaio's Tornabuoni Chapel and the Spanish Chapel in the cloisters, opposite the station. €7.50 (about $9), reduced €5, no booking needed. Monday to Thursday 9:00 to 17:30, Friday 11:00 to 17:30, Saturday 9:00 to 17:00, Sunday 13:00 to 17:00. Some August and September 2026 dates close early at 15:00.
Tip: First or last stop of a train day: the station is across the square and left luggage is inside it.
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San Lorenzo and the Laurentian Library
Basilica from €91 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
Brunelleschi's basilica for the Medici, with Donatello's pulpits and the Old Sacristy. Basilica €9 (about $11), Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:30, last entry 16:30, closed Sundays. Michelangelo's Laurentian Library staircase is a separate €5 ticket and opens Monday to Friday 10:00 to 13:30 only. The Medici Chapels round the back are a third ticket.
Tip: The library's weekday-morning-only hours make it the easiest thing in Florence to miss; put it before lunch on a weekday.
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Orsanmichele
Church and museum Not stated45 minbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
A grain market turned church, with the guild statues by Donatello, Ghiberti and Verrocchio in the niches outside and the originals upstairs. Tuesday to Sunday 8:30 to 18:30, closed Mondays. The single ticket price is not stated on the museum's page, which uses a live booking widget; the €38 72-hour six-museum ticket of the Bargello group includes it. The second floor closes when the indoor temperature reaches 34°C.
Tip: On a July afternoon assume the upper floor is shut; go at 8:30 for the statues in cool air.
Gardens and views
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Piazzale Michelangelo and San Miniato al Monte
Viewpoint Free1.5 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The most visited view point in Florence, in the city's own words, and free at any hour. San Miniato, five minutes further up the hill, is free too: Monday to Saturday 9:30 to 13:00 and 15:30 to 19:00, with Gregorian-chant vespers at 18:30 daily. Bus 12 from Santa Maria Novella station drops you at the piazzale; the walk up the Rampe from Piazza Poggi takes about fifteen minutes.
Tip: Vespers at 18:30, then the piazzale at sunset; in summer that is the order, in winter reverse it.
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Boboli Gardens
Garden★ 4.3 (1,214) from €351.5 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The Medici garden behind the Pitti, climbing from the amphitheatre to the Belvedere with the best free-of-crowds view of the Dome. The garden is sold with the palace on the Pitti and Boboli ticket at €35 (about $41), which adds the Villa Bardini garden. Hours change by month: June to August 8:15 to 19:10, January, February, November and December 8:15 to 16:30. Closed the first and last Monday of the month.
Tip: Enter from the Pitti courtyard, climb to the Kaffeehaus first and work back down; the amphitheatre is the finish, not the start.
Oltrarno
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Pitti Palace
Palace museum★ 4.3 (1,214) from €352 hbook-ahead tier 1 of 3
The Palatine Gallery hangs Raphael and Titian frame to frame the way the Grand Dukes did, with the Royal Apartments and the modern-art floor above. The Pitti and Boboli ticket is €35 (about $41), rated 4.3 from 1,214 reviews, with a timed slot for the Palatine Gallery. Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 to 18:30, closed Mondays.
Tip: Palatine Gallery first, then the garden: from June to August Boboli stays open to 19:10, well after the palace closes.
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Brancacci Chapel
Chapel★ 4.7 (118) from €2530 minbook-ahead tier 3 of 3
Masaccio's frescoes in Santa Maria del Carmine, the ones Michelangelo came to copy. The entrance with audio guide is €25 (about $29), rated 4.7 from 118 reviews. Entry is limited to 10 people at a time for 30 minutes, so the city says booking is strongly recommended. Open daily except Tuesday 10:00 to 17:00, Sunday 13:00 to 17:00. It sits in the San Frediano end of the Oltrarno.
Tip: Ten people per half-hour means a walk-up on a Saturday can be a two-hour wait; email the booking office the week before.
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Vasari Corridor
Corridor★ 4.6 (112) from €4835 minbook-ahead tier 3 of 3
The Medici's private passage from the Uffizi over Ponte Vecchio to the Pitti. It is sold with the Uffizi, and the small-group Uffizi tour with the corridor option starts at €48 (about $56), rated 4.6 from 112 reviews, with at most nine people and a licensed guide. The walk is one way, ending at the Pitti. Tuesday to Sunday, first entry 10:15, last departure 16:35.
Tip: Pick the corridor option when you book: the tour runs with or without it, and the corridor walk ends at the Pitti.
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Top 10 things to see in Florence at a glance
The first ten on the list with their adult price, summer hours and closed day. Where we list a ticket the price is that ticket's, and elsewhere it is the venue's own, from tickets.duomo.firenze.it for the two passes. Book-ahead is our tier: one dot walks in, three dots sells out.
| Rank and place | Adult price | Hours (summer) | Closed | Book ahead | Book |
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| 1. Cathedral nave | Free | Mon–Sat 10:15–15:45 | Sundays | Walk in | |
| 2. Brunelleschi's Dome | €53 with pass | Mon–Fri 8:15–18:45, Sat to 16:30, Sun 12:45–16:30 | 16–20 November 2026 | Weeks ahead | Check Availability |
| 3. Giotto's Bell Tower | €20 pass | Daily 8:15–18:45 | 9–13 November 2026 | Days ahead | |
| 4. Baptistery | €15 pass | Daily 8:30–19:30 | First Sunday from 13:30 | Walk in | |
| 5. Opera del Duomo Museum | In every pass | Daily 8:30–19:00 | First Tuesday of the month | Walk in | |
| 6. Uffizi | €16 | Tue–Sun 8:15–18:30 | Mondays | Weeks ahead | Check Availability |
| 7. Accademia | €28 | Tue–Sun 8:15–18:50 | Mondays | Weeks ahead | Check Availability |
| 8. Palazzo Vecchio | €32 | 9:00–19:00, Thu to 14:00 | Open Mondays | Days ahead | Check Availability |
| 9. Bargello | €19 | Tue–Sun 8:15–18:50 | Mondays | Walk in | Check Availability |
| 10. Medici Chapels | €18 | Tue–Sun 8:15–18:50 | Mondays | Days ahead | Check Availability |
Dollar equivalents at €1 = $1.17: €53 is about $62, €32 about $37, €28 about $33, €20 about $23, €16 about $19.
Tickets and tours for the top 10
One card per venue where we list a reserved ticket, with the booking platform's own prices and ratings. The highlights walking tour at €17, rated 4.6 from 5,773 reviews, is the orientation option for a first evening.
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Florence: Timed Entry to Michelangelo's David + Audio App
listed at $33.30
Reserved timed entry to the Accademia for Michelangelo's David with a digital audio app. Slot is binding; collect the ticket 15 minutes before.
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from €53
Florence: Brunelleschi's Dome Climb Entry Ticket & Duomo
listed at $61.77
Timed dome-climb ticket plus a 3-day Duomo complex pass (cathedral, baptistery, museum, crypt, bell tower) and an audio app. 463 steps, no lift.
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from €16
Florence: Uffizi Gallery Reserved Entry Ticket & Audioguide
listed at $18.53
Reserved timed Uffizi ticket with a downloadable audioguide app in 6 languages and unlimited time inside. Nominative ticket — bring matching ID.
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from €32
Florence: Palazzo Vecchio Entrance Ticket & Audioguide
listed at $37.21
Palazzo Vecchio skip-the-ticket-line entry with an audioguide or 7-inch multimedia guide in 8 languages; Arnolfo's Tower as an option.
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from €35
Florence: Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens Ticket & eBook
listed at $40.87
Combo ticket for Pitti Palace's 7 museums, Boboli Gardens and Villa Bardini garden, with multilingual eBooks sent by WhatsApp or email. Non-refundable.
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from €18
Florence: Reserved Entrance Ticket to the Medici Chapel
listed at $20.56
Reserved Medici Chapels ticket with a free audio app and priority at the queue; binding time slot. Hard Rock discounts bundled in.
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from €19
Florence: Reserved Entry Ticket to Bargello Museum
listed at $21.72
Reserved timed Bargello ticket that covers the temporary exhibitions, with a Florence audio app for Donatello's David and the Michelangelo room.
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from €17
Florence: Highlights Walking Tour with Expert Guide
listed at $20.27
90-minute small-group highlights walk (Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio) in 8 languages, with free luggage storage. Runs rain or shine.
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How to plan a day around the openings
Florence attractions close on five different weekdays, and the split is the single most useful thing on this page. Read the table before you fix the order of your days. One museum is missing on purpose: the Museo di San Marco, with Fra Angelico's cells, whose official page could not be reached on 28 August 2026, so its price and hours are not stated here rather than guessed.
The state museums (Uffizi, Accademia, Bargello, Medici Chapels, Pitti) shut every Monday. The civic museums (Palazzo Vecchio, Brancacci, Museo Novecento) stay open on Monday and take a different day off. The Cathedral nave is closed to visitors on Sunday.
So the week has a shape: Monday is for Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo complex, Tuesday is the worst day for the Brancacci and the only short day at Museo Galileo, Wednesday closes Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Thursday cuts Palazzo Vecchio to 14:00 and closes Museo Novecento, and the Laurentian Library only exists Monday to Friday 10:00 to 13:30.
| Day | Closed or short | Open and worth it |
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| Monday | Uffizi, Accademia, Bargello, Medici Chapels, Pitti; Boboli on the first and last Monday | Palazzo Vecchio 9:00–19:00, Duomo complex, Santa Croce, Galileo, Medici Riccardi, Brancacci |
| Tuesday | Brancacci Chapel; Museo Galileo closes 13:00; Opera del Duomo Museum on the first Tuesday | Uffizi and Accademia reopen; Laurentian Library 10:00–13:30 |
| Wednesday | Palazzo Medici Riccardi | Everything else on the list |
| Thursday | Palazzo Vecchio closes 14:00; Museo Novecento closed | Palazzo Strozzi to 23:00 |
| Friday | Nothing on the list; SMN opens late at 11:00 | Vasari Corridor evening 19:00–23:00, 3 July to 20 November 2026 |
| Saturday | Dome last slot 16:30; Laurentian Library closed | Bell Tower to 18:45, Mercato Centrale to 23:00 |
| Sunday | Cathedral nave; San Lorenzo basilica; Dome opens 12:45; Baptistery to 13:30 on the first Sunday | State museums free on the first Sunday, no reservation |
Free things to do in Florence, and the one free Sunday
Nine of the twenty-five cost nothing, and they are not the leftovers. The Cathedral nave, Monday to Saturday 10:15 to 15:45. Piazza della Signoria and the Loggia dei Lanzi, any hour.
Ponte Vecchio, best before 8:00. Mercato Centrale's food hall, 9:00 to 23:00 every day. Piazzale Michelangelo at sunset and San Miniato al Monte above it, with vespers at 18:30.
The Boboli's view is paid, but the walk up Costa San Giorgio to Forte di Belvedere is not. Then the first Sunday of every month, when the state museums open free with no reservation: the Uffizi, Pitti, Boboli, Accademia, Bargello and Medici Chapels. The queue at the Uffizi starts before 8:00 and the Accademia's stretches down Via Ricasoli by nine, so pick one museum and be at its door at 8:15.
The Baptistery is not free that day and closes early, at 13:30. Santa Croce has its own free days, including 4 October and 8 November 2026, and the Accademia adds 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. Ten more museums with hours and closed days are on every museum with hours and closed days.
Florence with kids: what the rules say
The rules are more useful than the tips. Under-18s can climb the Dome or the Bell Tower only with an adult, and the Opera advises against the climb for anyone with heart or breathing conditions, vertigo or claustrophobia. Every Duomo pass is free for ages 0 to 6 and reduced for 7 to 14. The Accademia has no cloakroom, refuses big bags and caps water at 0.5 litres, so a pushchair with a rucksack hanging off it is a problem at the door. Museo Galileo sells a family ticket for two adults and two under-18s. The tourist tax exempts children under 12. Boboli is the run-around; the Duomo museum's façade reconstruction and the Bargello's armour hold a ten-year-old longer than the Uffizi does. For a family of four, the ten stops that fit in one day is a better template than the three-day plan.
For young adults the list bends towards the Oltrarno after dark, Piazza Santo Spirito, a pasta class at €16 rated 4.9 from more than 14,000 reviews, and the Chianti Vespa day at €117; those cards are on Tuscany towns you can reach by train.
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Every area under 20 minutes from the DuomoThings to do in Florence: questions
What should you not miss in Florence?
The first ten on the list: the Duomo complex with the Dome climb, the Uffizi, the Accademia, Palazzo Vecchio, the Bargello and the Medici Chapels. Tap the Top 10 table above, then book the timed entry to David and the Dome climb ticket with the Duomo pass before anything else.
What is the main attraction in Florence?
By search volume, the Duomo complex; by ticket demand, the Uffizi. The Dome is the thing people climb and the Uffizi is the thing they queue for. The complex is on the Duomo complex page with all five monuments, and the gallery on Uffizi Gallery rooms worth the queue.
What are the most famous landmarks in Florence?
Brunelleschi's dome on the cathedral, with Giotto's bell tower beside it, the Ponte Vecchio with its goldsmiths' shops, Palazzo Vecchio and its tower over Piazza della Signoria, Michelangelo's David in the Accademia and Botticelli's Birth of Venus in the Uffizi. Piazzale Michelangelo is the free viewpoint that shows most of them in one frame.
Which of these attractions can be seen without a booked slot?
Twenty of the twenty-five: everything except the Dome, the Uffizi, the Accademia, the Vasari Corridor and the Brancacci Chapel walks up on the day. The free ones are marked in the list above; a timed one-day route is on Florence in one day.
Are 2 days enough for Florence?
For the top ten, yes, if the three timed slots are booked before you arrive. Day two adds Pitti and Boboli and an Oltrarno evening; day trips wait for a third day. The two-day order is on Florence in two days.
Which Florence attractions are free?
The Cathedral nave, Piazza della Signoria, the Loggia dei Lanzi, Ponte Vecchio, Mercato Centrale, Piazzale Michelangelo and San Miniato al Monte, and the state museums on the first Sunday of the month. Hours are in the free section.
Do I need to book the Dome climb in advance?
Yes. The Dome is only in the Brunelleschi Pass, and the pass needs a booked time-slot for the climb that cannot be changed. In summer the slots go a fortnight ahead. The pass comparison is on which pass includes the Dome climb; the card to book is the Dome climb ticket.
Does the 72-hour city pass pay off for this list?
It covers most of the museums here but not the Duomo complex, and the Uffizi, Accademia and Palazzo Vecchio still need a reservation with it. It costs €85 for 72 hours from the first entry, one entry per museum. Whether it fits your list depends on how many of its museums you reach in those three days, and the museum list is on the 72-hour Firenzecard.
What is unique to Florence that most visitors miss?
The Vasari Corridor over the Ponte Vecchio, the Laurentian Library staircase on a weekday morning, the Torre di Arnolfo instead of the Dome, the Brancacci Chapel's ten-person slots and the Secret Passages tour at Palazzo Vecchio. The Vasari card is the Uffizi small-group tour with corridor access. The Secret Passages option is on the Palazzo Vecchio page.
Which attractions on this list are free on the first Sunday of the month?
The state museums: Uffizi, Accademia, Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, Bargello and the Medici Chapels, with no reservation and a gate queue from before 08:15. The Duomo complex and the civic museums are never free on Sundays; prices per venue are in the tickets overview.
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