Florence Attractions Tickets

Florence Cathedral and Brunelleschi's Dome

The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo) anchors a monumental complex where the cathedral itself can be entered free of charge, while everything else requires a pass valid for three calendar days with one entry per monument. The passes cover combinations of Brunelleschi's Dome, Giotto's bell tower, the Baptistery of San Giovanni, the Opera del Duomo Museum and the Santa Reparata crypt, and only the most complete tier includes the dome. Climbing Brunelleschi's Dome means 463 steps with no lift, inside a timed reservation that cannot be changed or cancelled once issued, with names checked against ID at the entrance. Florence Cathedral tickets bundle the dome climb with the rest of the complex. The cathedral itself opens to visitors from Monday to Saturday and closes to sightseeing on Sundays for worship, while the bell tower climb adds another 414 steps for a second panorama over the rooftops.

Accademia Gallery

The Galleria dell'Accademia has housed the original of Michelangelo's David since 1873, when the statue was moved indoors from Piazza della Signoria, where a copy now occupies its old pedestal. The museum displays the largest number of Michelangelo's sculptures in the world. In the Galleria dei Prigioni, his unfinished Prisoners, carved for the tomb of Pope Julius II, lead toward the David in the apse alongside the Saint Matthew and the Palestrina Pietà, a work whose attribution to Michelangelo experts now consider doubtful. The Sala del Colosso holds Giambologna's rare full-size clay model for the Rape of the Sabine Women, prepared for the marble of 1582 in the Loggia dei Lanzi, and the gold-ground paintings by Giotto and other Florentine masters fill the painting rooms. Smaller and more specialised than the Uffizi, the gallery rewards a focused visit of about an hour. Accademia Gallery tickets reserve a timed entry, essential because the museum closes on Mondays and queues without a booking run long.

Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio has been the symbol of Florence's civic power for more than seven centuries, built from 1299 and still the seat of the city council today. The museum route opens with the Salone dei Cinquecento, the great hall raised at the end of the fifteenth century for the city's Great Council and turned by Cosimo I de' Medici into a ceremonial stage of the late Renaissance. The route continues with the Studiolo of Francesco I, Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes, Bronzino's painted chapel of Eleonora and Michelangelo's Genius of Victory. Beneath the building, an archaeological route descends to the excavated Roman theatre of ancient Florentia, and above it the 95-metre Arnolfo Tower rewards a separate climb with views over the city, weather permitting, since rain closes the tower. As a city-run museum, Palazzo Vecchio uses its own ticketing system, separate from the state museums. Palazzo Vecchio tickets open the museum route through the palace.

Pitti Palace

Palazzo Pitti (the Pitti Palace) is the largest palatial complex in Florence. The Medici, the Habsburg-Lorraine and the House of Savoy lived here in turn, and the palace hosted the King of Italy from 1865 to 1919. A single ticket admits visitors once to each museum of the circuit: the Palatine Gallery and the Royal Apartments on the first floor, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Costume and Fashion on the second, and the Treasury of the Grand Dukes at ground level. The Palatine Gallery alone hangs around 500 masterpieces in its frescoed ceremonial rooms, including the largest concentration of paintings by Raphael in the world together with Titian, Caravaggio and Rubens, beneath Pietro da Cortona's Planet Rooms frescoes of 1640 to 1647. Pitti Palace tickets cover the palace museums with one admission. The palace closes every Monday, and a combined five-day ticket links it with the Uffizi and the Boboli Gardens.

Boboli Gardens

The Boboli Gardens rise on the slope behind Pitti Palace as the Medici creation that defined the Italian garden style later copied by courts across Europe. The grounds work as an open-air museum populated by ancient and Renaissance statues. Their set pieces include the walled amphitheatre converted from the quarry that supplied the palace's stone, the Fountain of Neptune, the Fountain of the Ocean and the Buontalenti Grotto, begun under Vasari and completed as an artificial cave for Francesco I. Higher up, the eighteenth-century Kaffeehaus pavilion, a rare piece of Rococo architecture in Tuscany, and the Lemon House of 1777-1778 punctuate terraces that look back over the city, with paths running along the old walls to Porta Romana. The gardens keep their own ticket, separate from the palace interiors, and their own rhythm: gates open daily from 8:15, with closing times that shift by season and a full closure on the first and last Monday of each month.

Medici Chapels

The Medici Chapels (Cappelle Medicee) occupy the burial complex of the Medici family at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, a state museum since 1869 and now part of the Bargello Museums group. The visit starts in the crypt where the grand dukes rest, from Cosimo I to Gian Gastone, the last of the line in 1737. It then climbs to the Chapel of the Princes, an octagonal mausoleum sheathed in multicoloured marble and hardstone inlay, crowned by a dome that Pietro Benvenuti frescoed between 1828 and 1837. The centrepiece is Michelangelo's New Sacristy, where he designed both the architecture and the sculptures of the Medici tombs, including the reclining Night carved for the monument to Giuliano de' Medici. The rooms are small and capacity is limited, so Medici Chapels tickets with a reserved slot spare visitors the wait at one of the most compact museum interiors in Florence. Last entry falls 40 minutes before closing time.

Bargello Museum

The Museo Nazionale del Bargello occupies Florence's oldest public building, constructed in 1255. Originally serving as the Podestà seat and later a prison, the facility opened in 1865 as Italy's first national museum. The venue displays Renaissance sculptures created by Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini, and Giambologna.

Visitors explore central spaces including the main courtyard, Michelangelo Hall, and Donatello Hall, while observing the 54-meter Volognana Tower from the courtyard level. Located at Via del Proconsolo 4, the museum welcomes guests Tuesday through Sunday. Purchasing Bargello Museum Tickets in advance ensures direct entry to view these historical collections.