Accademia Gallery and Uffizi Gallery Guided Tour - Small Group Tour

 

Academy: We are waiting for you for a total immersion in the art of Michelangelo to learn about his most famous work, the "David", and other masterpieces of art such as ''The Prisoners'' and ''San Matteo'' and the “ Pieta di Palestrina". Your guide will engage you with a captivating story about Michelangelo and the most famous statue in the world. It will reveal how the young Michelangelo sculpted David from a huge block of rough marble over three years, creating an imposing sculpture of absolute beauty, an icon of the Renaissance model. A magnificent naked young man at the height of his physical vigor as a symbol of power and invincibility of the Florentine Republic at the moment of its maximum splendor.
Once the guided tour is finished, you have the option to stay in the museum for as long as you wish.

 

Uffizi: You can't leave Florence without visiting one of the most famous art galleries in the world. Here you can admire numerous works of art by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giotto, Cimabue, Masaccio and many others. Among the precious exhibition rooms of the Gallery, the most renowned one contains the refined works of Botticelli, including absolute masterpieces: "Spring" and "Birth of Venus". This last painting, an icon of the museum, represents the allegory of the birth of the goddess emerging from the sea foam and symbolizes the ideal of beauty as an expression of purity and spiritual quality, typical of Renaissance Neoplatonic aesthetics.

The guided tour ends at the Uffizi Terrace from where you can enjoy an extraordinary and exclusive view of the most important monuments of the city. Once the guided...