Florence Uffizi Gallery Small-Group Guided Tour (Vasari Corridor Entry Optional)

Enter the Uffizi with priority access
and meet Renaissance masterpieces

Meet your guide in front of the Uffizi Gallery and hear a short introduction to the Medici family, the history of the building and how it became a world-class museum. Skip the ticket line, pass the security check and head up to the upper galleries.

See the highlights from Botticelli to Raphael

Explore the main masterpieces in a small group for 1 hour 30 minutes. See the three Maestà (Madonna) paintings by Duccio, Cimabue and Giotto and trace how painting evolved from flat gold backgrounds to space, depth and human emotion. You also see Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi, and Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ.

Admire major works such as Michelangelo's Doni Tondo and Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch. The guided route focuses on the second-floor galleries with the most famous masterpieces, while first-floor collections such as the Venetian rooms with Titian and the Caravaggio rooms can be visited on your own after the tour. Your guide also explains the link to the Vasari Corridor in the windowed corridor overlooking the Arno and Ponte Vecchio.

Continue with free time or the Vasari Corridor

After the guided tour, you can stay in the Uffizi Gallery as long as you like. If you chose the Vasari Corridor option, your guide takes you to the corridor entrance inside the museum and says goodbye, and you then walk the corridor self-guided, following the museum staff.

Vasari Corridor entry takes place at a fixed time about 2 hours after the tour starts (e.g. for an 08:30 tour, usually around 10:45). You cannot enter earlier than the time on your ticket, and the whole experience takes about 4 hours. The corridor is a one-way route that crosses over the Ponte Vecchio and ends near the Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens exit across the river, so you cannot return to the Uffizi once you exit.

※ Under current museum rules, guides cannot give commentary inside the Vasari Corridor, so the guide does not accompany the corridor visit in any option.
※ If you want to take your time with the Uffizi collection, the basic option without the corridor is recommended.