Pitti Palace Private Tour: Palatine Gallery & Boboli Gardens

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Free cancellation

1/11

Duration3h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · IT +1

PickupAt your hotel

Walk through centuries of Medici art, then wander a Renaissance garden built for the same family.

A private guided tour of the Palatine Gallery inside Palazzo Pitti in Florence, where you see masterpieces by Botticelli, Titian, Rubens and Caravaggio collected by the Medici family. Your guide leads you through the gallery for roughly three hours, then you have entry to Boboli Gardens to explore fountains, sculptures and panoramic views of Florence on your own. A local guide in your chosen language (English, Spanish or Italian) is included, as is pickup from a centrally located hotel.

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens

Guided tour of Palatine Gallery
Explore Palatine Chapel interior
Visit Boboli Gardens

The Experience

The Palatine Gallery sits inside Palazzo Pitti, the last residence of the Medici family, and it holds their private art collection—not a museum built later, but the rooms where they actually lived and hung the paintings they owned. Your guide takes you through galleries filled with works from the 15th to 17th centuries: Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Caravaggio and others. The Palatine Chapel, a Baroque room inside the palace with frescoes and gilded details, is part of the tour—it was the private place of worship for Florence's ruling families and sits hidden inside the palace itself.

After the guided portion ends, you have free time to wander the other museums in Palazzo Pitti at your own pace: the Gallery of Modern Art, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, the Royal Apartments and the Museum of Fashion and Costume. You move through them alone, at whatever speed suits you, without the group or the guide's schedule pressing.

Your entry ticket to Boboli Gardens is included. The gardens sit directly behind the palace and are one of the finest Renaissance gardens in Florence—created by the Medici in the 16th century, they hold the Fountain of Neptune, the Buontalenti Grotto, sculptures, fountains and hidden pathways. You explore them after the palace, and the views back toward Florence spread across the hillside. Note that some areas of the gardens may be closed for maintenance at the time of your visit, managed by the Uffizi Galleries administration.

What’s included

Guided tour of the Palatine Gallery and Palatine Chapel with a local professional guide in English, Spanish or Italian.
entry ticket to Boboli Gardens.
free time to explore the other museums inside Palazzo Pitti (Gallery of Modern Art, Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Royal Apartments, Museum of Fashion and Costume).
headsets if required.
hotel pickup if centrally located in Florence.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by ACCORD Italy Smart Tours & Experiences

Is this one for you?Book this tour if you want a guide to walk you through the Medici collection and explain the art, then have the freedom to linger in the gardens or the palace's other museums without being rushed. The three-hour guided portion gives you the context and the highlights, and the free time afterward lets you spend as long as you want on whatever caught your eye.