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One more click on the navigator and we'll penetrate into the most extrordinary museums of Florence: the Uffizi Galleries with Leonardo and Michelangelo's paintings, Pitti painting gallery where we'll find 13 Raphaels and 11 Titians, The Bargello Museum crowded with the most striking statues of the renaissance, St Mark Museum, a real trip into the charming and peaceful atmosphere of a 15th century monastery where each of the 35 cells where the friars used to live shows lovely frescoes dipicted by Fra Angelico.
Want to see mithical David by Michelangelo? Sure, but (hard to believe) this is not the only statue left in Florence by the great genius. Let us lead you to the Medici Chapels and you'll be surrounded by Michelangelo's breathtaking statues.
How would you like to slowly follow the gentle curves of the Arno river on a boat trip to enjoy the view of the city from the water, taking unusual pictures of the Ponte Vecchio.
Have you already made your personal plans for your visit to Florence? No problem! Please contact us at florencewithus@gmail.com : we can offer you our suggestions to make the best of your stay. Make your requests and we'll organize a customized tour for you. And you will spare money! We do not work for agencies, we are a group of licenced guides, with long experience and great enthusiasm that you can contact directly. We are waiting for you!
Some of our suggestions
Classical tour
Half day
A walk in the religious centre to visit the Duomo and the medioeval heart of Florence, a chance to enjoy Piazza della Signoria , real open air museum unique in the world. Down the river you will reach the splendid Ponte Vecchio , visit palaces of the Renaissance period and end up having a coffee in the Republic Square
Full day - Walking tour + Academy Gallery of fine arts
Renaissance tour
Half day
Universally known as the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence was showered in the past with the works of great artists that you will enjoy in the church of Ss. Annunziata, visiting the Medici and the Strozzi Palace, admiring the technique of the Brunelleschi's dome and the frescoes of Santa Maria Novella church.
Uffizi tour
Two hours
You can't leave Florence without visiting one of the most important art galleries in the world. Here you can admire numerous works of art by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello, Titian, Caravaggio. (Once the guided tour is over, it is possible to stay in the museum).
Michelangelo's tour
Half day
We will show you the area of S.Lorenzo and the Medici Chapels where Michelangelo spent many years of his life carving the statues of Day and Night, Dusk and Dawn to finish in the Bargello , national statues museum, which houses masterpieces of Donatello, Verrocchio and again Michelangelo and his followers.
Full day
We want to join the previous tour with the visit to the Academy Gallery of fine arts, which houses the David and the Prisoners of Michelangelo and the church of Santa Croce where Michelangelo was buried, to spend a whole day in company of the great genius.
SPECIAL TOURS
Your own tour
Choose your own favourite carachter and we will work out a personalized tour following his traces through the art works left in Florence and the places related to his life. (Es. Leonardo, Galileo, Amerigo Vespucci etc.)
Hidden florence
Through the backstreets of Florence, far from the crowds we will take you to visit less known palaces that most people have not the time to see, treasures hidden inside little churches, beautiful gardens behind walls and workshops of artisans unique in Italy, set on the left bank of the Arno river.
Family-friend tour
A different way to approach the highlights of the city, a light and funny walk in the center of Florence peering in the Davanzati palace to see with the eyes of children how people lived in the past, a stop in the Palazzo Vecchio and later in the Boboli Garden to relax and enjoy art at the same time.
vespa tours
Pleasant full day tour around the hills of Florence, discovering the outskirts, ancient parish churches or castles and small villages, hidden gems to mass tourism, small museums of rare beauty.
It is really different riding a vespa! This tour, in cooperation with Stradanova scooter rental company, is not only a simple vespa tour, but a real art tour with a licensed guide of Florence and its province. Vespas are very reliable and the organization is by a licensed tour operator.
There are many different ways to get to know Florence, a small city but packed with art and history. In fact the city has maintained its medieval and renaissance urban structure so that a walk in the centre is just like opening a history book: you don't even need to read. Just look around and in a second you'll be able to jump on a time machine and head back to the past centuries. We guides can hold the wheel and drive you around!
Soon you'll land at the end of the 13th century, in front of the huge and colourful cathedral. Oh, look at that strange clock at the top, listen to the unbelievable story of the dome construction.
Soon you'll land at the end of the 13th century, in front of the huge and colourful cathedral. Oh, look at that strange clock at the top, listen to the unbelievable story of the dome construction.
Now the time machine flies again and touches the ground on the medieval plaza dominated by the townhall: who was arrested and kept in the horrible small tower cell? What do all those crests on top mean?
Not far away the Basilica devoted to the Holy Cross opens up its ancient gates and reveals the secrets of the Franciscan friars. Down the aisles of the church Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli still sleep in their tombs.
In the Basilica Santa Maria Novella light comes in through the stained-glass windows and illuminates the frescoes where Michelangelo's master Ghirlandaio shows the Florence of his time as a new Gerusalem: Why though is the Patriarch of Costatinople buried in the church?
Let's reset the navigator now and land into the life of the most exstraordinary family of Florence: the Medici, the lords of the city for 300 years. Let's open the gate of their spectacular residences and find how they lived there: Medici Palace, the apartments in the townhall, Pitti Palace. How could they possibly warm up so many rooms in winter? Where did they sleep? What did they eat? How did they amuse themselves?
How do you like gardens? They are beautiful in every season, but when spring comes, it's magic. Shall we go together to the Boboli gardens and find that this world of beauty was a real “supermarket” for their owners, the Medici of course? In a corner of these vast gardens we'll admire the most ancient rose species blossoming in May, and among them the “Maiden brush”, a delicate rose, the same one dipicted by Botticelli in his "Birth of Venus".
One more click on the navigator and we'll penetrate into the most extrordinary museums of Florence: the Uffizi Galleries with Leonardo and Michelangelo's paintings, Pitti painting gallery where we'll find 13 Raphaels and 11 Titians, The Bargello Museum crowded with the most striking statues of the renaissance, St Mark Museum, a real trip into the charming and peaceful atmosphere of a 15th century monastery where each of the 35 cells where the friars used to live shows lovely frescoes dipicted by Fra Angelico.
Want to see mithical David by Michelangelo? Sure, but (hard to believe) this is not the only statue left in Florence by the great genius. Let us lead you to the Medici Chapels and you'll be surrounded by Michelangelo's breathtaking statues.
How would you like to slowly follow the gentle curves of the Arno river on a boat trip to enjoy the view of the city from the water, taking unusual pictures of the Ponte Vecchio.
Or do you prefer riding on horse back or hiking in the Tuscan countryside?
When culture becomes overwhelming, how about wondering through the small medieval roads in search for the traditional craftmen's workshops to buy their unique items: something that will make you think about Florence for the rest of your life.
Have you already made your personal plans for your visit to Florence? No problem! Please contact us at florencewithus@gmail.com : we can offer you our suggestions to make the best of your stay. Make your requests and we'll organize a customized tour for you. And you will spare money! We do not work for agencies, we are a group of licenced guides, with long experience and great enthusiasm that you can contact directly. We are waiting for you!
Some of our suggestions
Classical tour
Half day
A walk in the religious centre to visit the Duomo and the medioeval heart of Florence, a chance to enjoy Piazza della Signoria , real open air museum unique in the world. Down the river you will reach the splendid Ponte Vecchio , visit palaces of the Renaissance period and end up having a coffee in the Republic Square
Full day - Walking tour + Academy Gallery of fine arts
A walking tour with the highlights of Florence and a total immersion in the art of Michelangelo to get to know his most famous work, David, and other important works of art such as "I Prigioni" and "San Matteo".
(Once the guided tour is over, it is possible to stay in the museum).
(Once the guided tour is over, it is possible to stay in the museum).
Renaissance tour
Half day
Universally known as the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence was showered in the past with the works of great artists that you will enjoy in the church of Ss. Annunziata, visiting the Medici and the Strozzi Palace, admiring the technique of the Brunelleschi's dome and the frescoes of Santa Maria Novella church.
Uffizi tour
Two hours
You can't leave Florence without visiting one of the most important art galleries in the world. Here you can admire numerous works of art by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello, Titian, Caravaggio. (Once the guided tour is over, it is possible to stay in the museum).
Michelangelo's tour
Half day
We will show you the area of S.Lorenzo and the Medici Chapels where Michelangelo spent many years of his life carving the statues of Day and Night, Dusk and Dawn to finish in the Bargello , national statues museum, which houses masterpieces of Donatello, Verrocchio and again Michelangelo and his followers.
We want to join the previous tour with the visit to the Academy Gallery of fine arts, which houses the David and the Prisoners of Michelangelo and the church of Santa Croce where Michelangelo was buried, to spend a whole day in company of the great genius.
SPECIAL TOURS
Your own tour
Choose your own favourite carachter and we will work out a personalized tour following his traces through the art works left in Florence and the places related to his life. (Es. Leonardo, Galileo, Amerigo Vespucci etc.)
Hidden florence
Through the backstreets of Florence, far from the crowds we will take you to visit less known palaces that most people have not the time to see, treasures hidden inside little churches, beautiful gardens behind walls and workshops of artisans unique in Italy, set on the left bank of the Arno river.
Family-friend tour
A different way to approach the highlights of the city, a light and funny walk in the center of Florence peering in the Davanzati palace to see with the eyes of children how people lived in the past, a stop in the Palazzo Vecchio and later in the Boboli Garden to relax and enjoy art at the same time.
vespa tours
Pleasant full day tour around the hills of Florence, discovering the outskirts, ancient parish churches or castles and small villages, hidden gems to mass tourism, small museums of rare beauty.
It is really different riding a vespa! This tour, in cooperation with Stradanova scooter rental company, is not only a simple vespa tour, but a real art tour with a licensed guide of Florence and its province. Vespas are very reliable and the organization is by a licensed tour operator.
