A Perfect Week in Florence Itinerary

Florence Itinerary

As one of Italy’s top travel destinations, Florence is a municipality so rich with history and recreate that it can be a rencontre to know where to start. We’ve created this guide to help you plan a perfect week that includes all the top museums and sights, weightier gastronomic experiences, trappy walks and perfect day trips in Tuscany. We’ve moreover included our favorite subconscious gems and a variety of options and ideas if you’re planning a return trip or once know and love Florence. Check it out and then contact our team to help you find that perfect vacation suite rental in Florence!

Florence Itinerary

Experience the weightier of Florence!

Day 1: Discovering the Historic Heart of Florence

Whether it’s your first visit or you’ve been traveling to Florence for years, there’s something special well-nigh stepping into Piazza di San Giovanni and coming squatter to squatter with the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral. You can often reservation a glimpse of its geometric white, untried and pink marble diamond while unescapable withal the narrow side streets. But when it’s there in front of you, expressly looking up at Brunelleschi’s dome, it’s nonflexible to pull your vision away. Start your visit with a stroll virtually the cathedral, moreover tabbed the Duomo, and then visit inside to stand under the massive dome that is decorated with 16th-century frescoes by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari. If you have a throne for heights and don’t mind a lot of steps, you can climb up to the top of Brunelleschi’s dome or the 278-foot tall tintinnabulate tower.

Just opposite the archway to the Duomo you’ll spot the stand vacated octagonal Baptistery, which is one of the oldest buildings in Florence. It was built between 1059 and 1128 in the Florentine Romanesque style, which profoundly influenced the later Renaissance style you’ll see virtually Florence. Don’t miss the sets of statue doors with carved relief panels. The doors on the east side closest to the Duomo by Lorenzo Ghiberti are so trappy that Michelangelo tabbed them the “Gates of Paradise.” You can learn increasingly well-nigh the Duomo in the fascinating Museo dell’Opera del Duomo located overdue the cathedral.

The zone virtually the Duomo is fun for shopping and exploring. It’s rich with historical sights like the 14th-century denomination Orsanmichele, one of our favorite subconscious gems in Florence.

Florence Itinerary

See the Doni Tondo by Michelangelo at the Uffizi.

Day 2: Renaissance Masterpieces & Santa Croce

Home to one of the greatest collections of art in the world, the Uffizi Gallery is a must while you’re in Florence. Don’t lose any time waiting in line by booking an Uffizi Gallery Priority Pass or, plane better, an Uffizi Gallery Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Ticket to be led through the hodgepodge by an experienced guide. However you segregate to visit, you’ll have the endangerment to see firsthand some of the most important masterpieces by artists such as Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and many more. Be sure to pace yourself and afterwords stroll over to trappy Piazza della Signoria where you’ll find the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s town hall, and many trappy statues, including a reprinting of Michelangelo’s David.

In the afternoon, meander over to the Santa Croce neighborhood to visit the Basilica of Santa Croce, which is full of originative and architectural treasures. Check out our Santa Croce guide for tips on what to see and do, where to shop and the weightier restaurants.

Day 3: Gastronomic Delights in Florence

Savoring succulent Tuscan fare is something you’ll enjoy every day in Florence. Not sure where to start? For the tastiest experience, throne out on a Taste of Florence Food Tour or a Florence Private Food Tour. Want to learn increasingly well-nigh Italian wines while in Italy? Discover local wines and pairings on this 3-hour Florence Tuscan Wine Private Tour. If you’re like us and fall in love with all the succulent pizza and Tuscan dishes you’ll enjoy while dining out, then consider spending some time learning how to recreate those specialties at home. Learn how to make your own Italian Homemade Pasta, have fun with the the unchangingly popular Pizza and Gelato Cooking Class, or enjoy a Four Undertow Lunch Cooking Class or a Florentine Dinner Cooking Class.

Florence walking tour

Walk up to Piazzale Michelangelo for stunning views! (credit)

Day 4: Trappy Gardens & Florence Views

Florence is trappy from every angle, but one of the loveliest spots by far is the view overlooking the municipality from Piazzale Michelangelo. Follow our self-guided Florence Walking Tour from the Ponte Vecchio past a 14th-century archway tower to Florence, through a rose garden and up to Piazzale Michelangelo for a stunning view. Spend increasingly time in the zone by climbing a little remoter up to the trappy San Miniato al Monte Basilica. On the way up or when down, spend time visiting the Museo Stefano Bardini and Bardini Gardens or throne when wideness the Arno to visit the remarkable Bargello Museum to see masterpieces of the Renaissance, like Donatello’s David, in a historic towers that is scrutinizingly as trappy as the art on display.

The Palazzo Pitti was home to the Medici family.

Day 5: A Day with the Medici

One name you’ll hear a lot of in Florence is Medici and that’s considering this wealthy and powerful family ruled Florence during the Renaissance and were patrons to the most influential and important artists of the day. Get to know increasingly well-nigh them on the Florence Medici Private Tour that takes you from originative treasures in their family denomination to the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi and the Medici Chapel in the San Lorenzo church. After the tour, throne wideness the Arno to the Oltrarno neighborhood to visit the Palazzo Pitti which was the Medici family’s lavish home. Then skip the line to the Boboli Gardens and imagine the life the Medici’s lived with these as their private gardens in the heart of Florence.

The Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens are just the whence of the treasures you can discover in the Oltrarno. Check out our guide to the stylish and fun Oltrarno neighborhood for increasingly ideas!

Spend a day exploring trappy Tuscany on a day trip from Florence!

Day 6: Weightier of Tuscany Day Trip

Florence is so well situated for exploring Tuscany and top destinations wideness Italy. If you’d like spend increasingly time exploring and less time in museums, enjoy easy day trips to Siena, the Cinque Terre, Bologna and plane Venice. Wine enthusiasts will want to throne out on day trips to the weightier wineries in Tuscany while during the summer months there are beautiful waterfront day trips from Florence, too.

Have limited time and want to see the top sights in Tuscany on a worry-free day? On our recommended Best of Tuscany Day Trip you’ll visit the historic part-way of Siena and see its magnificent cathedral and then enjoy a traditional Tuscan lunch and wine tasting at a Chianti vineyard followed by time spent in the famous hilltop town of San Gimignano and finish the day with a visit to Pisa. You’ll return to Florence having experienced the eyeful and unforgettable flavors of Tuscany!

See the original David sculpture at the Accademia Gallery. (credit)

Day 7: Seeing David & Shopping in Style

Although you’ll surely spot the famous David statue in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria, that isn’t the original statue carved by Michelangelo. To see that you’ll want to visit the Galleria dell’ Accademia, which is just a short stroll north from the Duomo. Of course, you won’t be the only one eager to see this masterpiece, so save time by booking the Accademia Gallery skip the line tour to stave waiting in a long queue. While the David is certainly a show stopper, you’ll moreover see other important works by Michelangelo as well as 15th-century paintings by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Uccello and more.

Spend a leisurely afternoon strolling over toward Santa Maria Novella church, where you can stop to see an impressive crucifix by Giotto and works by Botticelli, Masaccio and more. Virtually the corner, visit the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella — the world’s oldest pharmacy — which is a unconfined spot to pick out special gifts to take when home. Spend the afternoon shopping withal elegant Via dè Tornabuoni or the smaller side streets. Or throne to the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo to learn increasingly well-nigh Florence’s malleate history.

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