Private guided walking tour to visit Pitti Palace and Florence Boboli Gardens with your expert guide, you will discover the Pitti Palace, originally designed by Brunelleschi and built for the Pitti family in 1457, the Boboli Gardens just behind Pitti Palace considered a large open-air museum in Florence and an important example of 16th century Italian garden.
Palazzo Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens were the impressive residence in town of Medici family.
With your own private guide, you will visit Florence Pitti Palace. In particular, you will have the chance to marvel at the splendor of the Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments (fourteen magnificent rooms), which occupies the first floor and served as the residence of the Medici dynasty.
Palatine Gallery host an impressive collection of works of art comprising works by Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Rubens, Pietro da Cortona and other Italian and European masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
In the Palatine Gallery the paintings, which are sumptuously framed, cover the walls of the rooms in the style of traditional 17th-century picture galleries.
The Palatine Gallery has a unique attractiveness due to the way the paintings are placed as well as the lavish plaster and fresco décor of the suite of six rooms overlooking the Piazza.
Your tour will continue with a visit of the Boboli Gardens, just behind the Pitti Palace. The large space of the gardens with its formal layout is a real outdoor museum, home a collection of sculptures by Roman and Renaissance periods.
The Gardens became famous with the Medici family, who called in Niccolò Pericoli, known as Tribolo, to design the landscaping and he created a masterpiece of landscape architecture rich of fountains and sculptures in a scenography setting with an artificial lake that was a prototype for many European royal gardens.
HIGHLIGHTS
- The most beautiful gardens of Florence
- Pitti Palace, the impressive residence of Medici family
- 3 hours with your private expert guide
- The Renaissance style of Boboli gardens
DETAILS
Duration:
3 hours
Start Time Private Tour:
Morning Tour or Afternoon Tour:
Closed:
the first and last Monday of each month
Meeting Point:
In front of Palazzo Pitti Palace Museums in Pitti square
Inclusion:
Personal expert and licensed guide
Admission Tickets
Exclusions:
Gratuities (optional),
Notes:
More of 6 persons rates on request.