Tour of the Uffizi Gallery
Duration: 2 hours
On foot
Accessible to people with disabilities
Tickets are extra, we will buy them and they are NO REFUNDABLE.
What's included in the tour of the Uffizi Gallery:
Private tour guide
Priority access to the museum
Headphones for parties of more than 6 people
Customized itinerary
Full assistance during the tour
Interactive experience
The Uffizi Gallery Tour with Guided Florence Tours
Visiting the Uffizi Gallery means stepping into one of the most prestigious museums in the world, a place where history, beauty, and genius collide. Masterpieces by Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Botticelli are not just displayed here—they breathe, captivate, and transform those who stand before them.
With Guided Florence Tours, you’ll skip the endless lines and step directly into an unforgettable journey through art. We handle the reservations, so your experience is seamless, immersive, and
stress-free.
What to Expect
Guided Florence Tours, with its expert and passionate guides, has designed an itinerary that will lead you through the most significant works of the Uffizi Gallery, revealing their stories, techniques, symbolism and historical context.
The journey unfolds as you stand before works that have defined entire artistic movements: Botticelli’s Primavera and The Birth of Venus, Titian’s Venus of Urbino, Michelangelo’s Tondo Doni, Raphael’s Goldfinch Madonna, Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation, and Caravaggio’s Medusa.
But the Uffizi isn’t just about individual masterpieces. It’s the overwhelming sensation of being pulled into a different time, of watching art shift and evolve from the late medieval time, through
the Renaissance into the Baroque.
The view
And then, as if the art weren’t enough, there’s the view. The upper floor offers a panoramic glimpse of Florence, where the Arno River glows under the Tuscan sun and the city unfolds like a painting in itself.
The Uffizi isn’t just a museum—it’s a place that swallows you whole.
So take your time. Let the art pull you in.
But only with an expert guide can you truly grasp its depths.
The Uffizi is more than a collection of paintings—it’s a living narrative of human brilliance, a place where every brushstroke has meaning.
Let us bring its secrets to life for you.
History of the Uffizi Gallery
Uffizi is still the renaissance Florentine word for “Offices”. They were built because of the will of Cosimo I de ‘Medici in 1560. The new Duke of Florence decided to reorganize the Florentine State and therefore needed a building where to gather all the offices, the administration, the Florentine magistrates.
Therefore the new building was very important in the transformation of the city that Cosimo I had in mind. For this reason he chose for the project and construction of the gallery the greatest architect of the time, Giorgio Vasari.
The works lasted a little longer than expected because in 1565, Cosimo I succeeded in the impossible: to unite in marriage his first-born son, Francesco, with Joanna of Austria!
Also in this case Giorgio Vasari was the right-hand man of Cosimo and for him he built a corridor
(the VASARI CORRIDOR) to unite the palace of power (Palazzo Vecchio) to the new residence that the Medici family had just bought on the other side of the Arno river, Palazzo Pitti.
In 1581 Francesco I decided to close the loggia on the top floor of the building and turn it into a gallery to keep his extraordinary collection of paintings, statues, goldsmiths, medals and inlays of semi-precious stones.
Here is the birth of the first museum in the world of modern age.
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