Looking for guided tours of Florence in English? We offer private guided tours of Florence in English (as well as Spanish, Italian and Portuguese), with skip-the-line access to the museums and adapted to your own pace, led by an officially licensed guide.
Key details of this tour
- Duration: full day (also available as a half-day tour, around 3 hours)
- Type: private, exclusive tour for your group only
- Languages: English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
- Access: skip-the-line, no waiting at museums and monuments
- Meeting point: your hotel in the city centre or a central spot such as Piazza del Duomo
- Guide: Javier García, officially licensed Florence tour guide with over 25 years of experience
- Rating: 5.0 on TripAdvisor with 148 reviews
Guided tour of Florence (Full day)
If you want a complete guided walk through Florence without missing the city’s two most important museums — and so discover Michelangelo’s David and Botticelli’s Primavera — this is the tour for you. Perfect for seeing the highlights of Florence in a single day.
Tour duration: 5 to 7 hours
If you have more than one day in Florence, you can take our Florence tour over two or three days
Book your private tour of Florence with a local guide
Can you see all of Florence in just one day?
Florence is certainly not a city you can get to know completely in a single day. But it is true that with a local guide you have the advantage of going straight to the city’s most important sights — no detours, no getting lost and passing the same square or the same street a hundred times — with the resulting saving of time, which, why not say it, is also a saving of money. So if you want to see Florence in just one day, because you don’t have as much time as you would like, the best way to do it is in the company of a local guide.
What if I want to spend more than one day visiting Florence?
As one of the cities with the greatest artistic and monumental heritage not only in Italy but in all of Europe, Florence has so much to offer that you can easily devote several days to it without repeating a single one of the places you visit.
Why is a private tour of Florence with a local guide the better choice?
Every person is different, and each of us has our own interests, tastes and curiosities. A tour tailored to your tastes suits you as well as a made-to-measure suit. The museums you prefer, the places you most want to see and the corners you never expected to discover — always in the company of an officially licensed Florence tour guide.
What can we see in one day in Florence?
Within one of the largest and most important monumental centres in Europe, Florence has several key areas that are essential on a full-day or half-day tour:
– The monumental Piazza della Signoria, an open-air museum filled with original works of art, such as the famous Rape of the Sabine Women, and home to Palazzo Vecchio, seat of the city’s government for centuries.
– Piazza del Duomo and the Cathedral of Florence, one of the most imposing churches in the Western world, with its famous Campanile (bell tower), the Baptistery and the Dome, the highest point in the city.
– The Boar Market (Mercato del Porcellino), one of Florence’s oldest markets.
– Ponte Vecchio, the oldest bridge in the city and one of Florence’s most recognizable images.
These and many other places are the perfect starting point for delving into the history and monumental heritage of the famous cradle of the Renaissance.
Is the Florence tour difficult for people with reduced mobility?
Not at all. The tour always adapts to the pace of those discovering the city, and it can be adjusted to any type of disability, whether motor or sensory.
Is the Florence tour suitable for young children?
Absolutely. For us it is essential that children get involved in the tour and get to know — and remember — most of the places we visit. Children are the most demanding audience, and it is always rewarding to know that, as usually happens, they have thoroughly enjoyed the tour.
Is this one-day tour of Florence only about monuments?
NO — and this is an important difference from other tours. We want you to discover the other Florences beyond the postcard city: the most picturesque one, the one with the flavour of Tuscany, the Florence of legends, of secret corners, of artists and geniuses… There are many cities within this city, and we want you to discover them all with us in one day in Florence.
Looking for another tour? We offer the best guided tours in Florence
Guided tour of the Florence Cathedral (Duomo)
We will climb to the highest point in the city, the Dome of the Duomo, from where we will enjoy spectacular views over the whole of Florence. We will also visit the Baptistery, the Bell Tower and the Cathedral Museum (optional), home to all of the Duomo’s original masterpieces.
Tour duration: 2 to 3 hours
Guided tour of the Accademia Gallery (Michelangelo’s David)
If there is one thing you simply cannot miss in Florence, it is of course its best-known image: Michelangelo’s David, the most famous sculpture in the world. Take a guided tour of this famous museum, skipping the long lines, and learn every detail of the creation of this masterpiece and six other works by the brilliant Michelangelo.
Tour duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery
Considered one of the most important museums in the world, its rooms hold works by artists of the calibre of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Raphael. Visiting the Uffizi is almost a must if you want to understand the city’s golden age: the Renaissance.
Tour duration: 2 to 3 hours
Visiting Florence in 2 or 3 days
If what you would really like is to make the most of the city, two or three days go a long way. We will discover the city’s most famous corners, its most important museums and, of course, those other Florences — Dante’s, the Medici’s, Michelangelo’s — because Florence is many cities in one.
Tour duration: 2 days of 6 hours each
