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Florence is celebrated for its art, palaces, and powerful families — yet behind its beauty lies another story: one of care, charity, and civic vision. This tour takes you inside the Ospedale degli Innocenti, one of the first institutions in Europe dedicated to the protection of abandoned children.

This original guided tour offers a fresh and unconventional perspective on the Uffizi, placing women artists and women’s roles in art history at the center of the narrative. Through paintings, biographies, and historical context, we uncover lives marked by talent, resilience, ambition, and quiet rebellion.

Discovering the worlds of the Galileo Museum & Officine Profumo S.M. Novella. Not only did the Renaissance provide key contributions to art and literature, but this period in history brought a deep desire to understand nature’s mechanisms and laws, which contributed to the revolution of modern science as we know it.

The Uffizi Gallery is one of the most celebrated, and valued museums in the world. Constructed in the late 1500s as governmental offices, commissioned by the Medici Grand Duke, Cosimo I and executed by his architect, Giorgio Vasari. In 1743 the Medici family bequeathed the collection to the city.

This tour puts the spotlight on the turbulent world of Renaissance art, politics, and patronage through the artworks of the supremely gifted Michelangelo. Not only do his finest masterpieces convey true beauty and expertise, they also portray his political ideals and his complex relationship with the Medici.

Gardens remain deeply symbolic in our imagination as secret places containing subtle hues of the gardens of Eden. Holding an even deeper meaning through those who owned, created and designed these spaces. Gardens are home to many stories, sentiments and mysterious esoteric meanings.

The Bargello is an imposing fortress-like structure built in the 13th century, the first civic institution and expression of communal power in Florence. Designed initially as the seat of the administrative figure of the Capitano del Popolo, it was then changed to become the seat of the Podestà.

It is often overlooked that Florence for six years, between 1865 to 1871 was the capital of the young nation-state of Italy formed in 1861. This short period of time was marked by profound social and economic changes. At the time, Florence was transformed and modernized and celebrated as the cultural capital of Italy.

In 1565, Vasari completed a suspended passageway in just five months, a unique architectural feat with no parallel in any other European city. This elevated corridor seamlessly connected the Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi, spanning the river and extending through the city to the Palazzo Pitti.

Illuminating Florence’s Historic, Fashionable Footsteps. Discover Florence, the birthplace of Italian fashion, where culture, art, and style unite to craft a timeless legacy of elegance and innovation. Today, Florence remains a global fashion powerhouse, home to nearly 9,000 businesses and iconic names such as Emilio Pucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Gucci, Roberto Cavalli, and Ermanno Scervino.

Prepare for an exclusive, unveiled tour of the Dominican Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and its neighborhood, a magnificent representation of Florence's rich cultural heritage. On the West side of the city, around 1270, two Dominican Friars started construction on this gothic style Church. The place soon became an important reference for the entire local community.

In Florence, across the Arno lies a vibrant area, full of character, yet low-key and slow-paced, the Oltrarno. Remaining somewhat undiscovered thanks to the abundance of artisans’ studios, intimate squares, lively cafes and Florentines who occupy the area.

Food, identity and culture are all connected. An undeniable part of the Italian culture is exploring local delights and exploring the multitude of gastronomic traditions. Italy is enriched with an abundance of top-quality products, diversified not only from region to region but from one town to another, reinforcing the link between the people and the identity of a place.

The artisanal tradition is strongly engrained in Florence, family lineages of creativity and specialization are still alive today, producing renowned and admired masterpieces. The workshop was, and still is, the place where skills and secrets are learnt and passed on from master to student.

In the lively Oltrarno of Florence neighbourhood resides The Pitti Palace. This is one of the greatest Renaissance-era buildings, that served as deep inspiration for the royal palaces throughout Europe. Today Palazzo Pitti houses no less thansix museums containing collections of late-Renaissance and modern art, silver, jewellery, ivory, porcelain and the most extensive costume gallery in Italy.

This tour of Renaissance Florence traces the footsteps of the notorious historian, writer and father of political science, Niccolò Machiavelli, whilst exploring the city’s most reknowned squares and monuments, as well as the lesser-known ‘chiassi'. Get ready to immerse into Machiavelli’s world!

In Florence in the early 13th century, a group of Franciscan monks set up just outside the city fortifications. They were devoted to defending faith through preaching, as well as helping the poor living outside the city walls. Prepare for an exclusive, unveiled tour of the Franciscan Basilica of Santa Croce, a magnificent representation of Florence's rich cultural heritage.

This tour takes you on path that unveils and revives the lives of the Foreigners who fell in love with Florence, for its beauty and atmosphere. We explore the steps of those who came here and embraced Florence as a ‘home away from home’. A nostalgic journey of the history of a cosmopolitan Florence.

Immerse yourself into the history of the most influential and famous family of the Renaissance and early modern Italy, with the Medici walking tour in Florence. Universally recognized for their role as supporters of the arts and rulers of Tuscany for over three centuries, initially as private citizens then as sovereign grand dukes.