Uffizi Gallery Tour & Uffizi + Corridor Tour

Masterpiece paintings from the Medieval, Renaissance and post-Renaissance periods.

Option 1

The Uffizi Gallery... a picture tells a thousand words

DURATION: 3 hours

The tour can be also extended to explore other Italian and European masters. There is a gallery coffee shop which provides the perfect space for a break mid-tour.

DESCRIPTION: One of the oldest museums in the world, the Uffizi contains the principal protagonists of the Italian renaissance, providing visitors with a thorough overview of the period as we weave our way chronologically through history with art as our guide.

TICKET RESERVATIONS: We make the ticket reservations for your party in advance. A 4 euro booking fee is applied by the gallery for the timed-entry entrance payable at the time of ticket reservation. We collect payment for this in advance and pay it to the gallery at the time of reservation. It is non-refundable and non-transferable once paid to the gallery.

The ticket admission fees are paid on the day upon entering the gallery with the guide.

Minors under 18 years of age will need to present a digital copy of their passport as proof of age upon entry to the museum for reduced admissions (needed for 13-17years inclusive).

PLEASE NOTE:

Tuesday is the busiest day of the week as the galleries are CLOSED on Monday. During the very busy tourist season we strongly advise to avoid booking this tour on Tuesday. If you must visit the galleries on Tuesday, we recommend a start time of 8.30am.

During the busy season there is very often a queue in the reservation area on any day of the week as well as the unreserved door, due to the numerous large groups and the sheer number of people with reservations for any given time. There is no further way to avoid this wait in the reservation area. In order to ensure a high quality standard for our tours and to limit this frequent, and sometimes quite long, wait in the reservation area, we recommend avoiding having the reservation entry time between 9:00am-3:30pm. We therefore, recommend an early morning start (the gallery opens at 8:15am) or a late afternoon visit, at 3:30pm.

Option 2 – Uffizi Gallery & Vasarian Corridor

The Uffizi gallery & the Vasarian corridor…walk in the Medici Grand Ducal footsteps as they create the establish their aristocratic territory 

DURATION: 3 hours

DESCRIPTION: This tour will concentrate on how the Medici family transformed the traditional government from a Republic to one of a Grand Duchy in the mid-1500s through the construction of buildings and art patronage. They built the Uffizi building, they created the first modern museum (Uffizi gallery), the constructed two ducal palaces (Palazzo Vecchio & Palazzo Pitti and connected all these structures with a private aerial walkway.

You will visit a handful of masterpieces in the Uffizi gallery (much less than in the Uffizi gallery tour and works that are connected to the Medici Grand ducal theme) & then walk through the private outdoor covered walkway of the Medici family which connected their office building (the Uffizi) to their Granducal palace  (Palazzo Pitti). It is called today the Vasarian corridor after Giorgio Vasari, the court’s artistic director who planned and oversaw its construction in 1565.

The corridor entrance is from inside the Uffizi gallery & the exit is in the Boboli Gardens of the Palazzo Pitti.

Please note: The tour will end in the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti. It is not possible to stay & visit  in the Boboli gardens or the Palazzo Pitti museum area during or after the tour as this is a separate ticket.

 

Option 1

The meeting point of the tour will be determined upon booking.

Option 2

The meeting point of the tour will be determined upon booking.

All tours that we organise are private. We do not organise group tours.

OPTION 1: Uffizi gallery tour (3 hours)

€420 for parties of 1-5 people (excluding admission fees)
€480 for parties of 6-9 people (excluding admission fees)
€540 for parties of 10 people or more (excluding admission fees)

We do recommend a 3 hour tour of the Uffizi gallery for interested guests who love a good story and are interested in the Medieval and Renaissance periods because time flies by when visiting this gallery! However, the tour length can be adjusted to 2.5 hours if necessary. So please let us know your preferred tour length when requesting a tour.

ADMISSION FEES to sites are not included in the hourly rate listed above. The Uffizi Gallery requires ticket reservations in advance so as to avoid waiting in the very long unreserved queue.

We are required to pay the admission cost at the time of ticket reservation. This cost will be added to the payment link that we will send through for the tour cost after all details have been confirmed. Tickets are purchased only after payment for them has been received.

Please note: In the high season however, there may be an avoidable short wait in the reserved queue to enter the Uffizi gallery due to the large number of visitors in the tourist season.

The tickets are non-refundable & non-transferable once reserved & paid.

Uffizi Gallery Admission Fees 

Uffizi Gallery Ticket Costs:
March 1st -October 31st: Full price admission costs €29pp (ticket €25, reservation fee €4).
November 1st – February 28th: Full price admission costs €16pp (ticket €12, reservation fee €4).

Early bird discount for entry earlier than 9:00am: the adult admission with timed-entry costs €23pp (ticket €19 +  reservation fee €4). This means that we make a timed-entry booking purchase at 8:15am / 8:30am / 8:45am

Children from 6-17 years inclusive have free admission but reservation fee must be paid, €4.

Children under 6 years old are free and no reservation is necessary (they may be asked for proof of age at the door by staff).

European Union students 18-26 years old are eligible for the reduced ticket, a student card is necessary for proof of enrollment in an institution.

Digital copy of passport (paper copy or original) must be shown as proof of age for free/reduced tickets to the ticket office staff upon ticket purchase.

LARGE GROUPS:

– There is an additional charge of 5euro total when groups are 6-9pax inclusive

– There is an additional charge of 70euro when 9pax-15pax. Maximum group size in the Uffizi gallery is 15pax + guide.

*Admission fees are subject to change.

Reservations for Timed Entry

Tickets to the Uffizi Gallery will be reserved in advance by Freya’s Florence so as to avoid the long wait in the unreserved queue. Due to the very busy tourist season there is often an unavoidable short wait on the day in the reserved queue as well as the non-reserved but never as long. There is no ulterior way other than the reservation that we make to avoid this.

Freya’s Florence makes the timed-entry ticket reservations for guests. Full payment is required at the time of reservation. The gallery charges the ticket cost + a reservation fee of €4 per person for the timed/priority entry. This cost will be included in the payment link that we send along with the complete itinerary. The guide will have the digital tickets with them on the day to show gallery staff upon entering.

Headsets

Groups of 4 or more people will require headsets, necessary for most of the museums and recommended for city walks due to surrounding noise.

Freya’s Florence will book these in advance and they will be distributed at the beginning of the tour and used for the entire duration of the tour.

For parties up to 12 people the total cost for a half day hire is 30€ or for a full day tour the cost is 50€.

 

OPTION 2: Uffizi gallery & Vasarian Corridor tour rates:

€420 for parties of 1-5 people (excluding admission fees)
€480 for parties of 6-9 people (excluding admission fees)
€540 for parties of 10 people or more (excluding admission fees)

Uffizi Gallery + Vasarian corridor Combo Ticket Admission Fees:

Adult full price admission costs €47pp (ticket €43 + gallery reservation fee €4).

Children from 6-17 years inclusive have free admission but reservation fee must be paid €4.

Digital copy of passport (paper copy or original) must be shown as proof of age for free/reduced tickets to the ticket office staff upon ticket purchase.

*Admission fees are subject to change.

Reservations for Timed Entry Uffizi Gallery + Vasarian Corridor Combo Ticket 

We make a timed-entry ticket reservation to the corridor. It is possible to visit the Uffizi gallery up to two hours and no earlier.

Tickets to the Vasarian corridor will be reserved in advance by Freya’s Florence & payment is necessary at the time of reservation. The ticket cost will be added to the payment link that we will send to you after the itinerary is confirmed. We will make the ticket purchase after receiving ticket payment. 

Please note: In the high season however, there may be an avoidable short wait in the reserved queue to enter the Uffizi gallery due to the large number of visitors in the tourist season.  The tickets are non-refundable & non-transferable once reserved & paid.

Headsets

Groups of 4 or more people will require headsets, necessary for most of the museums and recommended for city walks due to surrounding noise.

Freya’s Florence will book these in advance and they will be distributed at the beginning of the tour and used for the entire duration of the tour.

For parties up to 12 people the total cost for a half day hire is 30€ or for a full day tour the cost is 50€.

 

Please note:

The Uffizi Gallery is CLOSED on Mondays.

On the FIRST SUNDAY of the month between APRIL – NOVEMBER inclusive all state museums in Italy are free without the possibility of making a ticket reservation. As a consequence, we don’t offer tours of the uffizi gallery on these Sundays as the queues are long to enter.

The Uffizi gallery will also offer free admission on 25th April & 2nd June so nor do we  organise tours at the gallery on either of these two dates.

 

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations made less than ONE WEEK prior to the tour start time require full payment.

Cancellations made within TWO weeks of your tour date will require half payment.

Tours proceed in inclement weather.

Gallery fees paid in advance for the timed-entry ticket reservations are non-refundable & non-transferable once paid to the gallery. SumUP handling/service fees are non-refundable.

 

Reduced Ticket Admission Fees for Minors under 18yrs of age:

Under 18 years are free to state museums (Accademia, Uffizi gallery, Pitti Palace, Bargello sculpture museum) however, the original passport or a copy (paper or digital) of the passport is the necessary document to show as proof of age at the ticket office of each museum.

Ticket reservations are necessary ahead of time at the Accademia gallery, the Uffizi gallery, the Medici chapels so as to avoid the very long lines of unreserved visitors. Freya’s Florence will make these reservations when the sites are included in the tour itinerary. All visitors over 6 years old must pay the 4€ for the reservation fee.

Under 6 years are not required to have a ticket nor reservation.

There are reduced admission costs at other sites in the city upon showing proof of age.