Florence Highlights Self Guided Walking Tour with an App

Highlights

Leistungen

Ablauf

1. Florence begins here. A perfectly balanced Renaissance square, Europe's first orphanage, and a church where brides still leave bouquets. Quietly extraordinary and almost always overlooked.

   5 Min.

2. One plain building. One seventeen-foot giant carved from abandoned marble. The Accademia doesn't try to impress from the outside, which makes what's waiting inside all the more extraordinary.

   Vorbeifahrt

3. Leather, noise, and the smell of street food give way to a Victorian iron and glass market hall where Florence eats, argues, and comes alive. Ground floor tradition, upper floor delicious chaos.

   5 Min.

4. Modest stone outside. Gem-encrusted walls within. The Medici Chapels hold centuries of ambition, Michelangelo's most haunting sculptures, and a secret chamber where genius once hid for his life.

   Vorbeifahrt

5. Florence at full volume. Marble, mosaics, bronze doors, and a dome that shouldn't exist but does. This square is where the Renaissance stopped being a movement and became a masterpiece.

   10 Min.

6. A grand square built on erasure. Ancient Roman crossroads, a demolished medieval neighbourhood, and a triumphal arch that calls it restoration. Florence rewriting itself, right under your feet.

   10 Min.

7. A Renaissance silk and gold trading floor turned leather market. The arches haven't changed. The deals have. And somewhere in here, the word bankruptcy was born.

   5 Min.

8. A shiny bronze nose, a coin, a grate, and a legend. Rub it right and Florence promises to bring you back. Millions have tried. The boar keeps its own counsel.

   5 Min.

9. A bridge that doesn't look like one. Jewellers, golden light, the Arno below, and a private Medici corridor running silently overhead. One of Europe's oldest bridges, and still the most theatrical.

   10 Min.

10. No walls, no ticket, no barriers. This open air museum is where Florence announced power, burned its enemies, and carved its identity into stone. You're not entering it. You're already inside.

    10 Min.

11. A prison turned into a palace of masterpieces. Florence's oldest public building now holds Donatello's David, early Michelangelo, and the finest Renaissance sculpture collection in Italy.

    Vorbeifahrt

12. Florence's Pantheon of Italian Glories. Michelangelo, Galileo, and Machiavelli all lie here, while Dante stands outside in marble, honoured by the city that once banished him forever.

    15 Min.

Stornierung

Kostenlose Stornierung bis 24 Stunden vor Beginn, mit voller Rückerstattung.

Gut zu wissen

How it compares in Florenz

• Its from-price is 94% below the median of the 3255 experiences we list in Florenz.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Florenz

Florenz, Wiege der Renaissance, vereint Meisterwerke der Kunst und Architektur in einer kompakten Stadt aus Steingassen am Arno.

Der Dom mit Brunelleschis gewaltiger Backsteinkuppel, Giottos Glockenturm und den vergoldeten Türen des Baptisteriums bildet die Mitte der Stadt. Wenige Straßen entfernt blicken die Piazza della Signoria und der Palazzo Vecchio auf eine Loggia voller Skulpturen, und die Uffizien beherbergen Botticelli, Leonardo und Raffael. Michelangelos David steht in der Galleria dell'Accademia.

Top-ranked sights in Florenz: Piazza della Signoria, Uffizi Galleries (Gallerie degli Uffizi), Florence Duomo (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore).

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