9:30 AM Meet Your Guide and start your tour at Piazzale Michelangelo and make our way to the Galleria Accademia. Founded in 1563, the Accademia holds many of Michelangelo’s most important works. His most famous, ‘David’, has dominated the
collection since it was moved inside from the Piazza Signoria, to protect it from pollution and
the weather. This sculpture established Michelangelo as the foremost sculptor of
his time at the age of twenty nine. Other masterpieces include ‘The Four
Prisoners’ – four muscular figures trying to free themselves from the stone
11:30 AM Walking tour Duomo, Baptistry. Piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio, Wild Boar
…
12:30 PM : Lunch in Florence
1:30 PM Uffizi and Ponte Vecchio
The Uffizi is the oldest gallery in the world and was
built in 1560 as offices for the Tuscan Administration (‘Uffizi’ translates as
‘offices’). We will enjoy a guided tour of the museum and view such works as ‘The Birth of
Venus’ and ‘Primavera’ by Botticelli, Michelangelo’s ‘The Holy Family’ and
Titian’s ‘Venus of Urbino’. The museum displays its paintings in a series of rooms off
the horseshoe shaped main corridor. The works are shown in chronological order
to reveal the development of Florentine art from Gothic to High Renaissance. show
the focuses on gothic art, the early renaissance and culminates in various paintings
from the High Renaissance.
4:15 PM Transfer to Livorno
6:00 PM Arrival at
The Ship
Price
1 to 5 people: €1375 (total)
6 to 16 people: €225 per person
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