Florence 2-day itinerary
2 days in Florence, planned the tabi way — one neighbourhood per day, gapless timing, every stop chosen from 36 human-verified places across 6 curated neighbourhoods. Open it offline and follow it street by street, or make it the starting point for your own plan.
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Duomo & Signoria & nearby — a sights day
The monumental heart — Brunelleschi's dome, the Uffizi and the statue-lined Piazza della Signoria packed into a few pedestrian blocks. Crowded by mid-morning; the trick is timed tickets and early starts.
- 08:0008:30BreakfastPick a spot nearby — not booked yet
- 08:3010:00ChurchCattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore90 min
The cathedral nave itself is free, no ticket needed, open Mon-Sat 10:15-15:45 (closed Sundays to sightseers, who are welcome only at Mass) — modest dress is enforced, no bare shoulders or knees, no flip-flops. Climbing Brunelleschi's dome requires the paid Brunelleschi Pass (€30 full, €12 age 7-14, free under 6), which bundles the Dome, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistery, the Opera del Duomo Museum and the Santa Reparata crypt into one 3-day-validity ticket — only the Dome slot itself is fixed to a specific date and time. Book the Dome slot as far ahead as you can on the official duomo.firenze.it site: it regularly sells out 2-4 weeks in advance in high season, and once booked the date/time cannot be changed. The climb is 463 steps with no elevator, taking about 45-50 minutes, and is genuinely tough for anyone with knee or heart concerns or claustrophobia in the narrow final stairwell — but the reward is Brunelleschi's engineering up close and Florence spread out below.
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- 10:1511:15MuseumMuseo Nazionale del Bargello60 min
Florence's medieval town-hall-turned-fortress holds the city's great Renaissance sculpture collection — Donatello's bronze David, Michelangelo's early Bacchus, and Ghiberti and Brunelleschi's competing Baptistery-door panels displayed side by side. The museum simplified its notoriously confusing calendar in March 2026: it's now simply closed every Monday and open Tuesday–Sunday 8:15–18:50 (last admission 18:00) — many older guidebooks still list the previous alternating 1st/3rd/5th-Monday and 2nd/4th-Sunday closures, so ignore those. The standard ticket is €12, valid 48 hours. Ground-floor rooms are wheelchair-accessible via ramp and lift, with staff assistance for raised thresholds between rooms; only the Chapel and Sacristy are excluded.
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- 12:0013:00LunchSuggested
- 13:0014:30Historic site90 min
Florence's still-functioning town hall, fortress-like from outside and frescoed wall-to-wall inside — the Salone dei Cinquecento alone is worth the ticket, a hall built for a 500-strong council and later reworked by Vasari with monumental battle frescoes for the Medici. Full museum ticket is €18 (€12 reduced 18-25/students, free under 17); open daily 9:00-19:00 except Thursday, when it closes at 14:00 — plan around that if Thursday is your only slot. A separate ticket (€20 full, €13 reduced) climbs the crenellated Torre di Arnolfo for the best rooftop view over the Duomo and Piazza della Signoria, on the same daily schedule as the museum but closing at 17:00 (14:00 Thursdays); the tower shuts to visitors in the rain. Arrive 15 minutes before your booked slot.
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- 14:4515:25LandmarkPiazza della Signoria e Loggia dei Lanzi40 min
Florence's outdoor sculpture gallery and civic stage, free and open around the clock — a copy of Michelangelo's David stands where the original once did outside Palazzo Vecchio, Cellini's bronze Perseus holds Medusa's severed head, and the open-air Loggia dei Lanzi shelters more Renaissance and Roman statuary under its arches, also free, no ticket or booking. Café tables ringing the square charge tourist prices for the view — a coffee here costs several times what you'd pay standing at a bar counter a few streets away. Come early morning or after dinner to actually see the statues without a wall of phone cameras; by day this is the most crowded square in the historic centre.
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- 15:4018:10GalleryGalleria degli Uffizi150 min
The world's finest collection of Renaissance painting — Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, work by Leonardo, Titian and Caravaggio, in the Medici family's own former administrative offices. Ticket prices split by season: €25 in high season (March-October), €12 in low season (November-February), plus a non-refundable €4 online booking fee either way; since 1 January 2026 a discounted €16 afternoon ticket covers entry from 16:00. Booking isn't strictly mandatory but is close to it in practice — walk-up tickets sell out and queues can run 1-2 hours April-October, while November-March before 10:00 or after 16:00 is usually fine without a reservation. Closed Mondays; the first Sunday of every month is free entry for everyone (arrive early, it's the busiest day of the month) and afternoon crowds thin noticeably after 16:00.
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San Niccolò & Piazzale Michelangelo & nearby — a sights day
The sunset quarter — climb past rose gardens to Piazzale Michelangelo's postcard view, catch the Gregorian vespers at San Miniato, then descend to wine bars built into the old city gate.
- 07:4008:00Check out of your stayUsually due by 10:00–12:00 — most stays hold your bags if you ask.
- 08:0008:30BreakfastPick a spot nearby — not booked yet
- 08:3009:00Viewpoint30 min
The classic postcard view of Florence — the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio and the Arno's bridges laid out below a bronze replica of Michelangelo's David. Free, no ticket, open all day and night; sunset is the famous time to come and it gets genuinely crowded April–October, so arrive at least 30 minutes early to claim a spot at the rail, or come at sunrise or mid-morning instead for the same view with almost nobody around. Bus 12 or 13 reaches the piazzale directly for anyone who doesn't want to climb the steps up from Oltrarno; food and drink stalls at the top are priced for the view, not the quality.
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- 09:1509:45ChurchBasilica di San Miniato al Monte30 min
Florence's oldest church (consecrated 1018), a green-and-white marble Romanesque facade a steep climb above Piazzale Michelangelo — and quieter than the crowds at the viewpoint just below it. The resident Olivetan Benedictine monks sing Vespers in Latin Gregorian chant every evening at 18:30, open to anyone who walks in and sits down; weekday Mass at 18:00 is also chanted, and Sunday adds services at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30 with Gregorian chant again at the 17:30 Mass. Entry is free, no booking needed. The scenic route up is a monumental staircase with no ramp; visitors who need step-free access should instead approach via Via delle Porte Sante, where a car can drop off at the gravel forecourt and a ramp plus portable platform lead into the church.
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- 10:0511:20GardenGiardino di Boboli75 min
The Medici's formal amphitheatre garden behind Pitti Palace, terraced up the hillside with cypress avenues, grottoes and a view back over the Boboli obelisk to the Florence skyline. Unlike the Palace, Boboli opens on most Mondays — but it's closed on the first and last Monday of every month (plus 25 December and 1 January), a quirk that trips up a lot of visitors. Hours shift with the season: roughly 8:15–16:30 in deep winter, stretching to 8:15–19:10 in June–August as shown here (last admission always an hour before closing). A standalone Boboli-only ticket runs €10 same-day / €13 in advance. The gravel-and-pebble paths and slopes up to 20% are hard going in a wheelchair unaccompanied, though the gardens' Accessibility Department can arrange an easier route by request.
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- 12:0013:00LunchSuggested
- 13:0014:30MuseumPalazzo Pitti90 min
The Medici family's vast former residence holds five separate museums under one roof — the Palatine Gallery's wall-to-wall Raphaels and Titians, the Royal Apartments, and Treasury, Costume and Modern Art collections upstairs. The 2026 combined ticket covering Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens and Bardini Garden costs €22 bought same-day or €25 booked in advance (a 5-day pass adding the Uffizi runs €40). Open Tuesday–Sunday 8:15–18:30, closed Mondays. Elevators and ramps reach every floor, wheelchairs loan free at the entrance, and disabled visitors can request staff assistance on arrival.
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- 14:4515:10ChurchBasilica di Santo Spirito25 min
Brunelleschi's last work and, to many architects, his purest — a calm grid of grey pietra serena columns inside, a deceptively plain façade outside that never got its planned marble front. General entry is free; a €2 add-on unlocks the sacristy and Michelangelo's wooden crucifix, carved around age 17. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday–Saturday 10:00–13:00 and 15:00–18:00; Sunday and holidays 11:30–13:30 and 15:00–18:00 — but closed all day Wednesday, an easy day to get caught out on. The piazza outside is one of Oltrarno's liveliest, especially at evening aperitivo hour.
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- 15:2515:45Landmark20 min
Florence's oldest bridge, and the only one the retreating German army didn't blow up in 1944 — lined with gold and jewellery workshops since Grand Duke Ferdinando I evicted the butchers and tanners in 1593. The bridge itself is free and open around the clock; the shops generally trade about 10:00–19:30 and close on Sundays or Monday mornings depending on the workshop. Come at dawn to see it without the midday crush, or after the shops shutter for a quieter view over the Arno from the small terrace at its centre — the Vasari Corridor runs invisibly above the shops, a private passage once used by the Medici.
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