I offer the best guided tours of Florence and tours of the city’s top museums.
Visiting Florence? We offer the best tours with a local guide
Florence Tour: Full-Day Guided Tour
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. A full-day private guided tour.
Tour duration: 5 to 7 hours
Guided Tour of the Accademia Gallery (Michelangelo’s David)
If there is one thing you 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 with skip-the-line access — no waiting in the long queues — and learn every detail of the creation of this masterpiece and of 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 essential to understand the city’s golden age: the Renaissance.
Tour duration: 2 to 3 hours
Visit 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 Florence, the Medici’s, Michelangelo’s — because Florence is many cities in one.
Tour duration: 2 days of 6 hours each
Guided Tour of the Florence Cathedral
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 the original masterpieces of the Duomo.
Tour duration: 2 to 3 hours
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Want to visit Tuscany? We prepare the best tours for you
Pisa and Lucca Tour
We prepare a personalised tour to visit the cities of Pisa and Lucca. We will see the famous Tower of Pisa with its entire artistic complex, and wander through Lucca’s most emblematic little streets and corners.
Tour duration: between 8 and 9 hours.
Siena and San Gimignano Tour
We prepare a personalised tour to visit the cities of Siena and San Gimignano. We will discover Siena’s most emblematic corners and stroll through the beautiful streets of San Gimignano.
Tour duration: between 8 and 9 hours.
Why discover Florence with a local guide?
Florence is the cradle of the Renaissance, the city of the Medici and the capital of Tuscany.
Florence is not just one city — there are many Florences, waiting to be discovered in its streets, its churches, its many monuments and its most picturesque corners. Florence is not just a city to see; it is a city to listen to. And who better than us to tell you all its secrets?
Our aim is for you to get to know the city from many points of view, and to adapt it to your own tastes.
Why discover Florence with JG Florencia Guías?
Our tours are not the typical tourist visits. We don’t reduce the visit to a mere speech. We personalise the route and adapt it to the things you really want to see — Florence offers that and much more. Every route is unique, and you can be sure that most of what we will tell you does not appear in any guidebook. It is not just art or history: these are tours made from — and with — the heart.
How long does a tour last?
We adapt the length of the tour to the time you have available, starting from a minimum of 2 and a half hours, because we believe that a good tour, like a good film, needs a minimum running time to unfold.
Is Florence for children too?
Of course. We love working with children, and we can assure you the experience will be unforgettable for them. After every tour, they are our biggest fans.
Is a guided tour worth paying for?
Seeing a city through the eyes of someone who knows it down to the last detail and lives in it is priceless. The fact that the vast majority of the clients who take our tours want to keep exploring the city with us, or recommend us to others, tells us that yes, it is a good investment. Our best advertising is word of mouth, and that makes us enormously proud.
What are the rates for hiring a guide in Florence?
Contact us and we will give you all the information about prices. Let’s just say it costs far less than it is worth.
Tours with my groups in Florence
Why is it so important to visit Florence with an officially licensed local guide?
Sadly, unlicensed operators and professional intrusion have nowadays taken their toll on many sectors of the economy — and of course on tourism. Amateurs with no official qualification offer tours in which, given their scant training and their fragile, superficial knowledge of the city, the client takes home a false, shallow and distorted picture of the city. Visiting the city with a local guide brings many advantages:
– Priority access to some of the most visited sites in the city.
– The chance to go beyond the city’s exteriors and get to know the history of its interiors.
– Discovering corners of the city that only someone who knows it perfectly can know and share with others.
– Having someone who can give you countless suggestions for your free time — those places that appear in no guidebook and on no social media, and that are always the secret that those of us who live Florence every day like to keep for ourselves.
– Not having to worry about managing bookings or knowing the opening times, because the local guide takes care of all that.
Always remember that cities should not only be seen but also listened to, because they always have a great deal to teach us — and a great deal to tell us.
