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UFFIZI GALLERY GUIDED TOUR - FLORENCE - (TWO HOURS)

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The Uffizi Gallery by night
The Uffizi Gallery by night
La Nascita di Venere by Botticelli
La Nascita di Venere by Botticelli
Cosimo I de Medici
Cosimo I de Medici
L'Eredità by Giotto
L'Eredità by Giotto
Farinata degli Uberti
Farinata degli Uberti
Perugino's Madonna with child and Saints
Perugino's Madonna with child and Saints

GUIDED TOUR OF THE UFFIZI GALLERY

DURATION:

2 hours

PRICE:

 150 EURO

AVAILABILITY:

All-year-round

THE PRICE INCLUDES:

English-speaking guide for 2 hours in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence

THE ENTRANCE FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED

ADMISSION:

Single ticket
Full price: € 6.50
Reduced: € 3,25 (*)

We suggest You to reserve Your ticket in advance and then You can enjoy the visit without queue.
Booking charge is € 4.00 per ticket

Free of charge:

  • Citizens of the European Union under the age of eighteen or over the age of sixty five. Visitors under the age of twelve must be accompanied
    • Teachers and students enrolled in the faculties of architecture, cultural heritage conservation and educational sciences, or on degree courses in literature or literary subjects with an archaeological or historic-artistic specialisation in the faculties of literature and philosophy (students must display the certificate of enrolment for the current academic year
  • Teachers and students enrolled in the Fine Arts Academies (students must display the certificate of enrolment for the current academic year
  • Personnel of the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities
  • Members of ICOM (International Council of Museums)
  • For reasons of study or research, certified by schools or universities, academies and research and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad, or by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities, or for specific motivated requirements, the heads of the institutions may allow free admission for specified periods to persons making request there to
(*) Reductions:
  • EU citizens aged 18 – 25 on presentation of a document

The Uffizi Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday
8.15 – 18.50

Closed Monday, New Year’s Day, May 1st and
Christmas Day

DISABLED:

Lifts at entrance and exit


Medieval artists weren’t bad painters – their work reflected a holistically Christian viewpoint, with no concept of “nature” as something separate from the divine; the new humanism changes all this. You can witness the change starting with Cimabue’s great Crucifixion, still inspired by the flat forms and ritualized expressions of Byzantine art. Follow with the work of his student Giotto, where the human figure begins to take on greater and greater realism.
The work of Sandro Botticelli – with his Birth of Venus (the goodness emerging from the waves on a shell) and Primavera (an ambiguous allegory of spring) – show how the revival of classical (pagan) myth opened a new range of expression and subject.
Across from Botticeli’s Venus, don’t miss the spectacular triptych of Hugo van der Goes, whose humanism emerges in the intensity of expression and powerful realism of his poor peasants (also look for the fanciful monster lurking in the right panel). Piero della Francesa’s famous diptych with full-profile portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and his wife was painted in the third quarter of the 14th century; note how he brings his subjects to life, with luminosity and incredible details, warts and all. You can then delight in the full explosion of the Renaissance, with Masaccio’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne, Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi and Annunciation, several Raphaels, Michelangelo’s Holy Family, Caravaggio’s Bacchus and many more.

There’s so much at the Uffizi Gallery that you should really come twice to absorb it all.