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Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence: buy skip-the-line tickets online

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Palazzo Pitti in Florence.Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens - Florence

Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens: € 124 per person.

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The Palazzo Pitti Collection collects works of works by Botticelli, Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Rubens. Also of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, the School of Macchiaioli, Decadence, Symbolism, Post-Impressionism and Divisionism. Among the exhibited artists Fattori, Hayez, Lega, Signorini, Pissarro, Rosso, Boldini, Nomellini among the exhibited artists.

The history of the Pitti Palace Museum is linked to the Medici family, bankers who rose to power in the 15th century and governed Florence for centuries. But it was only in 1549 that Eleonora di Toledo - wife of Cosimo I de' Medici - bought Palazzo Pitti, the historic Renaissance residence of the banker Luca Pitti who had it built - to a design by Filippo Brunelleschi - starting in 1458 at the base of the Boboli hill in Oltrarno.

Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens

With this skip-the-line ticket you enter Pitti to make a guided visit with an official guide visit the Palatine Gallery and the Royal Apartments to admire the private art collection of the Medici family inside their last luxurious residence.

The collection includes extraordinary masterpieces by Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Caravaggio and many other Italian and European painters from the 15th to the 17th century.

This ticket offers the opportunity to explore Palazzo Pitti, the splendid Renaissance palace of the Medici family. This is a private visit for a group of up to 10 people all part of the same booking. As such, the guide will be able to satisfy every request and curiosity of every person with respect to a collective tour.

At the end of the visit, the guide will give you the priority entrance ticket to the Boboli Gardens located behind the Palace, an extraordinary open-air museum populated by ancient statues, adorned with caves and beautiful fountains.

What is included in the Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

Ticket delivery service.
Skip-the-line entrance to the Palazzo Pitti Museum.
Guided tour with official guide.
Headsets for groups of more than 6 people.
– This is a Private Tour for your group only (max 10 people).
Skip-the-line tickets for the Boboli Gardens.

Meeting point of Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

City Florence Tours office, located a few meters from the main entrance of the Uffizi Gallery, at Via dei Castellani 14 (18 red).

Duration of the visit with the Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

– 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Times and days for the Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

– Museum hours and days.

Languages available for the Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

– English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Russian.

Terms of cancellation of the Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

The reservation can be canceled with a 100% refund up to 24 hours before the start.

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Accessibility and useful information for the Private Guided visit and ticket Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens in Florence

– Accessible for people with reduced mobility and in wheelchairs.
– Stroller accessible.
– Comfortable shoes suggested.

Works from the collection of Palazzo Pitti in Florence

The Palazzo Pitti Collection brings together works from Neoclassicism, Romanticism, the School of Macchiaioli, decadentism, symbolism, post-impressionism and divisionism. Among the exhibited artists Fattori, Hayez, Lega, Signorini, Pissarro, Rosso, Boldini, Nomellini among the exhibited artists.

The Pitti Palace Museum in Florence

Opened in 1919 after the legacy of Vittorio Emanuele III, Palazzo Pitti is actually a museum complex as it houses a considerable number of museums and galleries.
Since 2014 Palazzo Pitti has in turn been part of the museum complex of the Uffizi Galleries.

Galleria Palatina

Together with the Royal and Imperial Apartments, the Palatine Gallery occupies the main floor of the building and houses one of the most important art galleries in the world; here is the largest concentration of Raphael's paintings in the world. The Gallery as it stands was born between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century at the behest of the Lorraines who had 500 paintings belonging to the Medici collections placed here.
In the various rooms, frescoed by Pietro da Cortona from 1640 to 1647, there are also works by Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Rubens which dialogue with the original furnishings of the rooms that the Grand Duke destined for private use and for state hearings. The Quadreria della Palatina still houses the paintings inside precious carved and gilded frames which are in the original position desired by the Grand Duke to fascinate his guests. This is the largest existing picture gallery in Italy.

Tre età dell'uomo, Giorgione, 1500-1501 Palazzo Pitti  Florence

(Photo: Three ages of man, Giorgione, 1500-1501)

Royal and Imperial Apartments

They are paired with the Palatine Gallery being the opposite wing of the noble palace. There are a total of 14 rooms which at the beginning of the eighteenth century were the private apartments of the Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici and then from 1865 of the sovereigns of Italy Savoy from which they finally took their name.

Here there are smaller rooms than in the Palatine and the furnishings are from the Savoy era with furniture and pieces from the Medici, Lorraine and Savoy collections. In this wing it is possible to immerse oneself in the daily life of the dynasties that lived in Pitti and above all of the Savoys who left the building in 1919.

Gallery of Modern Art

Among the museums housed in Pitti there is also a Modern Art Gallery which occupies the entire second floor of the building and all the rooms of the rear northern side wing, offering the visitor panoramic views of Florence in its 30 rooms. These house a collection of painting and sculpture ranging from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

In these rooms lived the exponents of Lorraine and then those of the Savoy who kept this area of ​​Palazzo Pitti at their disposal well beyond the date of 1919, when visitors were already flowing through the main entrance of the newborn museum.

The exhibition is presented in chronological order and touches the main artists of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, the School of Macchiaioli, Decadence, Symbolism, Post-Impressionism and Divisionism: Fattori, Hayez, Lega, Signorini, Pissarro, Rosso, Boldini, Nomellini among the exhibited artists.

Treasury of the Grand Dukes

In the northern side wing of Palazzo Pitti - once the summer apartment of the Medici family - the Treasury of the Grand Dukes is housed on the ground floor and upper mezzanine in 27 rooms, 14 on the ground floor and 13 on the upper floor, displaying a collection of jewellery, silverware, crystals, ivory and semi-precious stones. The rooms were decorated with frescoes for the marriage between Ferdinando II de' Medici and Vittoria della Rovere (1637). Even if the finds are part of the Medici Treasury, there is also a section dedicated to contemporary jewellery.

Palazzo Pitti Florence

History of the Pitti Palace Museum in Florence

The history of the Pitti Palace Museum is linked to the Medici family, bankers who rose to power in the 13th century and governed Florence for centuries.

(Photo: Internal facade on the Boboli Gardens. Stefan Bauer, http://www.ferras.at, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons)

In 1549 Eleonora di Toledo bought Palazzo Pitti, the historic Renaissance residence of the banker Luca Pitti who had it built - to a design by Filippo Brunelleschi - starting in 1458 at the base of the Boboli hill in the Oltrarno. Pitti was the political rival of Cosimo the Elder, patriarch of the Medici family; legend has it that it required its windows to be larger than the entrance door to Cosimo's palace. Once Brunelleschi died, the architect of the first nucleus of Palazzo Pitti was finally his pupil Luca Fancelli.

At the time of Eleonora's purchase, the building had only three doors and a double row of windows; Bartolomeo Ammannati was then called - who was working on the project for the Fountain of Neptune in Piazza della Signoria - to expand it and transform it into one of the most famous noble palace models in Europe. The construction of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens were from that moment carried on together. For the Boboli Gardens, Niccolò Pericoli (1500 - 1550), known as Tribolo, was called in and designed the layout, dividing it into sectors where he planted rare trees and wild plants and arranged the hedges. But Tribolo died prematurely and Ammannati himself took charge of the garden, who designed the Grotta di Madama, built from 1553 to 1555, with the aim of recreating naturalistic environments populated by sculptures depicting mysterious beings and animals.

Meanwhile, the construction of Palazzo Pitti continued as normal with the pietraforte that was quarried in the Garden itself, transforming an area behind the central courtyard into an amphitheater, designed by Tribolo who designed it adorned only with vegetation.
The concurrent development of Palace and Garden quickly led to the creation of the largest and most beautiful palace in Europe which ended up being imitated several times.

The Ammannati court, which according to legend was capable of containing Palazzo Strozzi, was the scene of events that attracted crowned heads from all over Europe, such as in 1569 for the marriage between Ferdinando I de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine.

In the seventeenth century, the facade facing the square was enlarged (1618-1631) which in turn became three times longer and, at the end of the century, the Fonte del Leone was also added, with the Medici grand ducal crown, by Cosimo III (1696).
Under the Lorraines the two advancing wings of the Palazzo were built, with porticoes and terraces, called Rondò, the work of Giuseppe Ruggeri.

Napoleon Bonaparte also stayed there in the early years of the 19th century, who also made it the object of plunder by sending to Paris, and losing along the way, various works contained in Palazzo Pitti.

The return of the Lorraines after the Council of Vienna in 1815 determined the start of a more conservative than innovative restoration.
In 1833, under Leopold II, parts of the palace were opened to the public as a museum. But with the annexation of Tuscany to Piedmont, the building passed under the appurtenances of the Savoy who stayed there from 1865 with Florence as the capital of Italy.
From 1871 the Savoys moved towards the Quirinale because the capital had been moved to Rome. They kept Palazzo Pitti in their properties until 1919 when Vittorio Emanuele III donated it to the State which immediately made it one of the most beautiful state museums in Italy.

View of Boboli Gardens of FLorence

(Photo: Vista dalla Kaffeehaus. I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Information for visiting the Pitti Palace Museum

Hours: Tuesday to Sunday open at 8.15am to 6.30pm. Last entry 5.30pm.
Closed on the first and last Monday of the month, except between June and October; January 1st; 25th December.
Tickets: full price € 16. concessions € 2. Entry reservation € 3. 5-day passepartout: single entry valid for 5 days for the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Pitti museum € 38.

How to reach the Palazzo Pitti Museum in Florence

The entrance to the Pitti Palace Museum is located in Piazza de' Pitti, 1.

Arriving by train

From Santa Maria Novella station you can get there on foot in about 20 minutes (2km).

Arriving by bus

The closest bus stop is the Pitti line C4 (in front of Palazzo Pitti).

Arriving by car

The closest car parks are Garage Palazzo Vecchio, Garage dei Tintori, Garage Lungarno (for a fee). They are located just 300 meters on foot from the Uffizi Gallery.

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