Full Day Florence Architectural Highlights Tour

Piazza del Duomo, Italy

Highlights

Piazza Duomo, Battistero, Piazza della Signoria & Palazzo Vecchio

Florence

architectural, historical, sightseeing

Private Tour

1 Day

Easy

English

Description

Explore the architectural highlights of Florence and be amazed by its overwhelming beauty. Visit Piazza Duomo, Battistero, Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio and more on this one day tour.

Itinerary

Florence Architectural Tour
- Start the tour at Piazza Duomo with your Florence tour guide.
- Walk around the Duomo and to about the history of the church with special care to Brunelleschi's dome.
- Stand in front of Battistero to admire Ghiberti's Bronze Doors with their elaborated embroidery and iconography.
- Move to the old medieval district, where the poet Dante Alighieri was born, in a maze of narrow roads and tall houses.
- Visit Piazza della Signoria and Orsanmichele.
- Discover beautiful statues and longtime history in Piazza della Signoria.
- Walk through the Uffizi Square to Ponte Vecchio and see the jewellery shops while enjoying the view of the Arno river.
- Have lunch or eat an ice-cream at Gelateria Neri or have a "panino with Lampre Dotto" and a glass of wine.
- Visit Palazzo Vecchio, the old and present Town Hall.
- Head to the majestic Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens, before ending the tour.