Nearby Attractions

Brunelleschi's dome, still the largest masonry dome ever raised, over a cathedral faced in green, white and pink marble. The 463-step climb inside the double shell is the reason most people book the Brunelleschi Pass.

Closed: The cathedral closes to visitors on Sundays and religious holidays; individual monuments have their own closing days (the museum shuts on the first Tuesday of the month)

The cathedral nave is free (expect a long queue). Combined passes valid 3 days: Brunelleschi Pass €30 (dome + bell tower + baptistery + museum + Santa Reparata), Giotto Pass €20 (everything except the dome), Ghiberti Pass €15 (no climbs). The dome slot is a fixed date and time; arrive 15 minutes early and no more than 5 minutes late.

The Medici collection in Vasari's old administrative offices: Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo, Caravaggio and Titian along a corridor with a view over the Arno.

Closed: Mondays, 1 January and 25 December

Roughly €25 same-day at the desk, about €29 booked in advance, and €16 (plus a €4 booking fee) for entry from 4pm, a discounted afternoon rate introduced on 1 January 2026. Advance booking is strongly advised from April to September.

Almost everyone comes for one thing: Michelangelo's David, standing at the end of a corridor lined with his unfinished Prisoners still half-trapped in the marble.

Closed: Mondays, 1 January and 25 December

About €16 admission plus a €4 booking fee (€20 online); some sources quote a flat €20 base. A €26 combined 48-hour ticket with the Bargello launched in March 2026. Walk-up tickets exist when capacity allows but slots regularly sell out from April to September.

The only Florentine bridge the retreating army left standing in 1944, lined with goldsmiths since a Medici duke evicted the butchers in 1593. Vasari's private corridor still runs above the shops.

Florence's political stage for seven centuries, and an open-air sculpture gallery: Cellini's Perseus and Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines stand under the Loggia, free to see at any hour.

The square and the Loggia dei Lanzi are free. The David outside Palazzo Vecchio is a copy; the original is in the Accademia. Palazzo Vecchio itself charges separately.

The postcard view of the whole city with the dome at its centre, laid out below a terrace on the south bank. Twenty minutes uphill on foot from Ponte Vecchio, or bus 12 or 13.

A cast-iron market hall from 1874: butchers, cheesemongers and tripe stalls on the ground floor, a food court of Tuscan producers upstairs that stays open into the evening.

Free to enter. The ground-floor food market keeps shorter hours than the first-floor food court, which runs late into the evening.

The Franciscan church where Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli are buried, with Giotto frescoes in the chapels and Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel in the cloister.

Closed: Limited visiting on Sunday mornings and during services

Around €10 for adults; the ticket covers the church, the chapels, the cloisters and the leather school. Shoulders and knees must be covered.