Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence
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Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence
By Ciao Florence Tours and Travels
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$53.35
Ages 0-99, max of 16 per group
Duration: 1h 30m
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
English, Spanish
- Professional guide
- Audio headsets available for larger groups to better hear your guide
- Accademia Gallery skip the line ticket
- Small group tour
- Entry/Admission - Galleria dell'Accademia
- Entry/Admission - Galleria dell'Accademia
- Entry/Admission - Galleria dell'Accademia
What's not included- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Departure details
- Via Camillo Cavour, 12, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy Meet your guide in front of Ciao Florence Sales office, in Via cavour 12 black number!
Return details- Accademia Gallery, Via Ricasoli, 58/60, 50129 Firenze FI, Italy The tour ends inside the Accademia Gallery, so you can stay inside the museum also when the tour is over as long as you please
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6367P26- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Receive your confirmation at the time of booking
- Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
- Please note that on the busiest days the entrance into the museums may experience some short delays
- From November to March (Low Season): The tour is always confirmed in English and Spanish. The minimum required to confirm the tour in Italian, French and German is 4 pax
- The tour will be monolingual and in a small group
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- Which attractions will I visit with Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence?
- During this experience, places you will visit include:Discover and book Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence on Tripadvisor
- How much is Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence?
- Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence price starts from $53.35. Discover and book Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence on Tripadvisor
- What is the Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence cancellation policy?
- Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence cancellation policy: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Discover and book Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence on Tripadvisor
- Which company provides Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence?
- Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence is hosted by Ciao Florence Tours and Travels. Read reviews, discover additonal experiences or contact Ciao Florence Tours and Travels on Tripadvisor. Discover and book Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence on Tripadvisor
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6367P26
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Itinerary
- You'll start atVia Camillo Cavour, 12Via Camillo Cavour, 12, 50122 Firenze FI, ItalyMeet your guide in front of Ciao Florence Sales office, in Via cavour 12 black number!See address & details
- 1Via Cavour FirenzeStop: 10 minutesSee details
- 2Galleria dell'AccademiaStop: 20 minutes - Admission includedSee details
- 3Galleria dell'AccademiaStop: 20 minutes - Admission includedSee details
- 4Galleria dell'AccademiaStop: 20 minutes - Admission includedSee details
- You'll end atAccademia GalleryVia Ricasoli, 58/60, 50129 Firenze FI, ItalyThe tour ends inside the Accademia Gallery, so you can stay inside the museum also when the tour is over as long as you pleaseSee address & details
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Theiowamillers
2 contributions
Oct 2022
We took several tours in Italy this past 2 weeks and by far, our tour guide here was the best. On time, respectful, answered all the questions and provided an appropriate level of detail on the artwork, etc... A true professional.
Written October 31, 2022
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fn2017316
Long Island, New York5 contributions
We had a great experience with our Private Tour at the Academia Gallery. The museum is huge and filled with fabulous art. Our private guide, Giacomo walked us through in a very experienced way and made sure we saw all the highlights. He was very knowledgeable about the art and the styles and techniques of the artists. We learned so much by touring with him and by seeing the art with his explanation of the meaning. It was a great experience. We did three different private tours with Ciao Florence and all were really great. Giacomo who took us through both Academia and Ufizzi two days later was excellent.
Written October 14, 2022
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Stephanie S
1 contribution
Easy to find the meeting point, amazing tour guide! She was extremely knowledgeable and told us so many fascinating stories about the artwork and the history of Florence. Seriously, Daniella has been the best tour guide we’ve ever had (we have been touring with different companies and cruises, so we have met PLENTY of tour guides). She was flexible with us (we had a time constraint) and even got us a taxi. Seriously, this tour exceeded our expectations! So glad we booked this tour and with skip the line option we saved so.much.time!
Written June 11, 2022
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kat_stolerman
Boston, Massachusetts2 contributions
Sep 2022
My partner and I did this Ciao Florence tour of the Accademia this morning and were very disappointed. Among other things, the guide:
1. clearly had very little knowledge of art history and was relying on visitors having even less or no knowledge. Stopping in front of various paintings, she was only able to tell us surface level facts such as that the color red symbolizes passion and green is for hope. In another example, she stopped in front of a Stradivarius violin and literally said, "this is a very old violin made by Stradivarius".
2. blatantly stated incorrect facts, such as that "mathematical perspective was invented in Florence in 1420" when what she probably meant was that Renaissance artists in Florence (notably Brunelleschi beginning ~1420) were the first to introduce geometric and other techniques developed by ancient Greek mathematicians and already seen in Greek and Roman sculpture into two-dimensional art.
3. asked me to convert 5 meters, the approximate height of the statue of David, into feet, and, after I easily did so at her request due to my knowledge of the metric system, turned to another visitor and joked that she needed to do this because Americans do not understand the metric system.
Further, the tour was advertised as 75 minutes when in reality it was barely 45 minutes. I raise this because the tour was not cheap. However, after 45 minutes and having learned nothing, we were ready for it to end. We promptly walked back to the start of the museum and walked through it all over again, this time reading the various plaques and getting much more out of the experience.
I wish I got the name of the guide - based on other reviews, it seems like other travelers with better guides had a much better experience.
1. clearly had very little knowledge of art history and was relying on visitors having even less or no knowledge. Stopping in front of various paintings, she was only able to tell us surface level facts such as that the color red symbolizes passion and green is for hope. In another example, she stopped in front of a Stradivarius violin and literally said, "this is a very old violin made by Stradivarius".
2. blatantly stated incorrect facts, such as that "mathematical perspective was invented in Florence in 1420" when what she probably meant was that Renaissance artists in Florence (notably Brunelleschi beginning ~1420) were the first to introduce geometric and other techniques developed by ancient Greek mathematicians and already seen in Greek and Roman sculpture into two-dimensional art.
3. asked me to convert 5 meters, the approximate height of the statue of David, into feet, and, after I easily did so at her request due to my knowledge of the metric system, turned to another visitor and joked that she needed to do this because Americans do not understand the metric system.
Further, the tour was advertised as 75 minutes when in reality it was barely 45 minutes. I raise this because the tour was not cheap. However, after 45 minutes and having learned nothing, we were ready for it to end. We promptly walked back to the start of the museum and walked through it all over again, this time reading the various plaques and getting much more out of the experience.
I wish I got the name of the guide - based on other reviews, it seems like other travelers with better guides had a much better experience.
Written September 1, 2022
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Jim C
5 contributions
May 2023
First of all, everything about our tour -- tour, guide, and museum itself -- was wonderful. Our guide was VERY knowledgeable, and went out of her way to point out unique things about the museum, including other opportunities not included in the tour. This was a thoroughly professional tour, and we highly recommend it.
Pro Tip: Search for the starting point by "CiaoFlorence" on Google Maps -- or you will have great difficulty finding it.
If you use the street address, you will have trouble because that street has TWO completely different numbering systems. Some addresses are in barely-visible faded red numbers, others are in blue, and there is no correlation whatsoever in the numbers.
Pro Tip: Search for the starting point by "CiaoFlorence" on Google Maps -- or you will have great difficulty finding it.
If you use the street address, you will have trouble because that street has TWO completely different numbering systems. Some addresses are in barely-visible faded red numbers, others are in blue, and there is no correlation whatsoever in the numbers.
Written May 30, 2023
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timothy d
8 contributions
Jun 2022 • Couples
If my wife surprises me with this tour and I also booked it, you would think I could cancel on of them and get a refund back. ABSOLUTELY WON’T BE USING THIS SERVICE ANYMORE !!!!!!
Written June 26, 2022
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Peter P
12 contributions
May 2019 • Couples
Ours was a private 2 hour tour. We were very fortunate to have Julia guide us around the Gallery. Very knowledgeable, passionate, clear explanations and commentary, great friendly personality - precisely the detail and insight that we were after and much more. Thank you Julia and CIAO. We stayed for another 3 hours after formal 2 hour tour. Highly recommend.
Written May 17, 2019
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Dear Peter
It makes us extremely happy to know that you have spent a great day thanks to Ciaoflorence and its staff :)
Thank you from the bottom of our heart.
Come back to see us!
Kind Regards
Ciaoflorence Staff
Written May 19, 2019
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Laurence B
Leicester, England, United Kingdom10 contributions
Oct 2018 • Solo
A fortnight ago today I went to see the David principally, in the Academia, Florence . It was good to see it in the flesh, though I didn't really warm to the outsize head and hands - it was originally meant to be outside and on the roof, which was the reason these features were slightly exaggerated. I did also like some of the erotic statuary in a side gallery, before we got to the David, though some of it was mysteriously speckled, like chicken-pox!. Best of all was the woman who guided us, Alexandra, I think she was called. She gave the most wonderful, detailed narrative of Michelangelo as a man and sometimes very difficult, though utterly brilliant, artist. Worth the money, I should say.
Laurence Breedon
Laurence Breedon
Written October 31, 2018
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
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Product Overview: Skip the Line: Accademia Gallery Guided Tour in Florence
| Prices From | $53 |
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| Number of Reviews | 9 |
| Number of Photos | 3 |
| Duration | 90 minutes |