Firenze Trip Overview
Are you looking for a unique way to experience Florence? Why not try this 2-hour evening walking tour with your own private guide. Explore the highlights, learn about the history, hear stories about famous Florentines, all while you take in the atmosphere by night.
From the meeting place in Piazza Santa Croce you’ll head off on a walk through the narrow, characteristic streets, cross small squares, and be surprised around every corner. At this time of night, it’s an enjoyable way to take in the touristic sights with less people on the streets and cooler temperatures.
Your guide has the perfect itinerary organized for you, which include: Santa Croce Church where many Florentine artists are buried, the magnificent Duomo with its Baptistery and Bell Tower, the famous Ponte Vecchio lined with jewellery shops, rub the nose of the porcellino statue to ensure your return to the city and the political center, Piazza della Signoria where you can see the copy of Michelangelo’s David and more.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Firenze, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Are you looking for a unique way to experience Florence? Why not try this 2-hour evening walking tour with your own private guide. Explore the highlights, learn about the history, hear stories about famous Florentines, all while you take in the atmosphere by night.
From the meeting place in Piazza Santa Croce you’ll head off on a walk through the narrow, characteristic streets, cross small squares, and be surprised around every corner. At this time of night, it’s an enjoyable way to take in the touristic sights with less people on the streets and cooler temperatures.
Your guide has the perfect itinerary organized for you, which include: Santa Croce Church where many Florentine artists are buried, the magnificent Duomo with its Baptistery and Bell Tower, the famous Ponte Vecchio lined with jewellery shops, rub the nose of the porcellino statue to ensure your return to the city and the political center, Piazza della Signoria where you can see the copy of Michelangelo’s David and more.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Basilica of Santa Croce, Piazza Santa Croce 16, 50122, Florence Italy
The Basilica of Santa Croce is the largest Franciscan church in the world. Its has sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with frescoes by Giotto and his pupils. It is the burial place of some of the most famous Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli and the composer Rossini, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Duomo – Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Via della Canonica, 1 Piazza del Duomo, 50122, Florence Italy
Piazza Duomo contains the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore, the third largest cathedral in the world after St. Peter’s in Rome and St. Paul’s in London. It was completed in 1436 and the large dome on top was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is made of marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Battistero di San Giovanni, Piazza San Giovanni, 50122, Florence Italy
The Baptistery of St John is a beautiful building best known for its elaborately sculpted doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti. The octagonal baptistery stands in both the Piazza del Duomo and Piazza San Giovanni, across from Florence Cathedral and the Campanile di Giotto. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city, constructed between 1059 and 1128 in Florentine Romanesque style.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Piazza della Signoria, 50122, Florence Italy
The impressive L-shaped square is home to Palazzo Vecchio, the Loggia della Signoria and the Uffizi Gallery. Since its beginning during the Middle Ages, the Piazza della Signoria has been the political heart of the city.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ponte Vecchio, 50125, Florence Italy
The Ponte Vecchio (old bridge) was built during Roman times and is the most ancient and photographed bridge in Florence that goes over the River Arno. Butchers initially occupied the shops but the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers, and souvenir sellers.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Fontana del Porcellino, Via Val di Lamona Piazza del Mercato Nuovo, 50122, Florence Italy
Il Porcellino, piglet in Italian, is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a wild boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca and was originally intended for the Boboli Gardens.
Duration: 10 minutes
