Palatina Gallery and Guided Walking Tour in Florence – Florence, Italy

EXPERIENCE:

Enjoy a guided tour of the Palatine Gallary combined with a city walking tour in Florence. Follow your guide through the art history of the Renaissance, and discover its many masterpieces. Afterward, walk the city streets and find yourself at all the major highlights Florence has to offer.

Meet your guide and enjoy a guided tour inside the marvelous Pitti palace, built during the 15th century and bought by the Medici Family, becoming their glorious residence. The guide will escort you through the Palatine Gallery (Galleria Palatina) for you to enjoy the beauties kept there.

This private collection comprises a vast group of paintings owned by the Grand Dukes. They are displayed in the official staterooms on the first floor of the Pitti Palace.

Discover dozens of Renaissance paintings, including the most remarkable masterpieces by Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Caravaggio, and many other Italian and European painters from the 15th to the 17th century, through the Planetary Rooms.

These rooms were designed by the great Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona. They create an overwhelmingly stunning environment of frescoes and stucco. You will soon find that this beautiful setting provides the perfect background for the superb exhibition of paintings from the Medici collection.

The tour takes about one and a half hours, the perfect time to appreciate the art collections. You are also free to return to anything you might want to see again after the tour ends. This is the ideal tour for art and history lovers alike, made all more the better skip-the-line access.

Later in the afternoon, meet the guide in front of the Hard Rock Cafe to start the walking tour. Receive insight into the history of this Renaissance city and how this incredible cultural movement of the Renaissance transformed not only Florence but eventually the rest of Europe.

Begin with Piazza Della Republica, the main square of Florence, before heading straight to the Piazza Della Duomo.

Pass the Duomo Square, the guide will lead you straight through the old buildings and some of the historical landmarks of Florence to Palazzo Vecchio, where you will see the Sculpture of David by Michelangelo.

Afterward, as you walk past the Palazzo Vecchio, the guide will talk you through the Uffizi Gallery, one of the greatest museums in the world, before you reach the most famous old bridge of Florence known as Ponte Vecchio.

Your next stop is at Palazzo Pitti, the enormous palace of Florence’s largest architectural monuments of Filippo Brunelleschi. As you walk through the narrow roads of this ancient city with lots of hidden treasures, the guide will answer all the curious secrets of the city.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Skip the line for the tickets to the Pitti Palace
Discover masterpieces of European art in the Palatine Gallery
See stunning frescoes and stucco work from the Renaissance
See the Signoria Square with its replica of the Michelangelo’s David
Learn from your guide, who will show you the city’s hidden treasures

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