At the Accademia is where you'll find the original marble statue of David by Michelangelo and his Prisoners , as well as other masterpieces by Perugino, Filippino Lippi and Botticelli. Just like the Uffizi, the Accademia is visited by over 1,2 million visitors every year. The long lines at the entrance on via Ricasoli wind around the nearby corner.
To avoid queuing under the sun or rain there is no portico to protect from the elements as there is at the Uffizi Gallery , we highly recommend you book tickets ahead of time. Even though other Florence museums, such as the Bargello National Museum with its great sculpture collection, the Pitti Palace with its several museums and the Boboli Gardens , and the Medici Chapels with more sculptural masterpieces by Michelangelo, are not as busy as the Uffizi and the Academy, it's still useful to reserve tickets for these museums if you're visiting during high season.
For these museums, you can reserve tickets online three days in advance while for the Uffizi we recommend getting them much before. This means that the Uffizi, Accademia and the rest of the State museums in Florence see the list here are free on the first Sunday of the month from October through March!
Read more about the Florence museum 3 day Firenze Card pass here to decide whether it is convenient for you, since you can book entrance for those days if you have the card. Lines can be long on those free Sundays, so be prepared! Regardless of the time of the year, if you're visiting Florence for only a few hours as is the case for many doing day trips from cruise ships that stop in Livorno , I highly recommend you BOOK your museum tickets ahead of time.
You don't have much time to dedicate to Florence so you don't want to spend time in line. Booking your tickets ahead of time will be one way to ensure you have more time to see beautiful Florence! We found it is a great way to visit both the Uffizi and Accademia museums and the rest of Florence because a licensed tour guide can explain the importance of the main artworks in a simple and interesting way that makes history and art quite fun!
We recommend Viator because it offers a wide variety of tours which in turn also include the ticket to the museums as well as combinations of museum tours with walking tours of Florence. Take a look at the many tours offered , there are many options for group size, time of the day, duration of tour and places you visit. Have any questions on booking museums or where to buy them from?
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Accept Read More. Be sure to take the audio guide or the guide book for your visit: indications in Uffizi contain nothing more than the name and the author of the paintings. On the first Sunday of each month the entrance is free for all visitors. Due to security reasons, there can be only visitors at the same time inside the Gallery. During peak hours the waiting line gets long quickly because entrance is allowed only upon the exit of another visitor.
The limit is usually reached by 9am, so those waiting in line will have to wait at least minutes until visitors from first wave start leaving. Considering even 2 hours are not usually enough to visit Uffizi - the tourists waiting in line at this time will suffer the longest wait. Thus we strongly recommend you avoid coming at 10 a. The caveat with the Uffizi is how crowded it is and how long you have to wait in line before actually getting in.
I don't know how you can do the Uffizi justice in less than half a day. We did both in a day with Accademia about 1 hour 2 hours tops I think and the Uffizi hours you could easily add an hour or two You definitely need reservations at both and your hotel can make them for you. Rick's audio tours were great for both of these. We did Uffizi first but if I go again I will reverse this. Have breakfast, go to Accademia in the morning, do some shopping, have a lite lunch at the Uffizi I guess the restaurant has a great view but unfortunately we did not try it.
Do the Uffizi from late morning until closing.
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