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Gallerie degli Uffizi · Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael · €25 on the day or €29 in advance in 2026 · small-group tour from $74
The Uffizi: Tickets, Guided Tours and the Vasari Corridor
The Uffizi opens Tuesday to Sunday, 8:15 am to 6:30 pm, and is closed on Mondays. In 2026 a ticket costs €25 on the day or €29 bought in advance, carries the visitor's name and is checked against ID, with no entry and no refund if they differ. Groups inside are capped at 16 people including the guide. The tour on this page includes the ticket and 1.5 hours with a guide.
Likely to sell out
From
$74
per person
current promotion, usually $103
Free cancellation
- 4.7 / 5 3,009 reviews
- 16 max People per Group Inside, Guide Included
- Named tickets Checked Against ID; No Entry on a Mismatch
- Free Cancellation
The Experience
What the Small-Group Tour Includes
1.5 hours with a guide, the Uffizi entry ticket and a headset. Every Uffizi ticket carries the visitor's name, so give each name exactly as it appears on the passport or ID card that person will bring.
Highlights
- Discover iconic artworks by Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci.
- Explore the world famous master piece "Birth of Venus"
- Benefit from a knowledgeable guide who will provide fascinating history deeply.
- Giving you the opportunity to ask questions, engage in discussions.
What's Included
- One hour-and-a-half guided tour.
- Entry tickets to Uffizi Gallery.
- Headsets to hear the tour guide clearly.
- Assistance at the meeting point.
Good to know: Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour starts. · All visitors must pass through a metal detector. · Not Included: Hotel pickup and drop-off., Food and drinks.
How the Small-Group Tour Works
Four steps, from sending the names to the end of the guided route.
Send the Names, Bring the IDs
Uffizi tickets carry the visitor's name, and the museum refuses entry, with no refund, if it does not match that person's passport or ID card. Bring ID for children too; the museum's rule covers every visitor, so bring one for each person.
At the Meeting Point
Be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start; where it is depends on the option you book, and the operator's staff assist you there. Everyone passes through a metal detector and oversize luggage is not allowed; umbrellas, bulky bags and backpacks must be left at the museum's cloakroom, free for items within its size limit.
1.5 Hours With a Guide
The guide leads the group with headsets; the listing names Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Primavera, Michelangelo's Tondo Doni and Leonardo's Annunciation. By the museum's rules, groups inside are 16 people at most including the guide, and groups over six must use headsets.
When the Tour Ends
The guided route lasts about 1.5 hours. The Vasari Corridor is not included. The galleries close at 6:30 pm and the ticket office at 5:30 pm, and a ticket allows a single entry, so once you leave you cannot go back in.
Photo Gallery
The Uffizi in Photos
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Select your preferred date and time. The listing's terms: Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund.
The Uffizi With a Guide: Three Ways to Book
The tour on this page against a cheaper small-group tour with the Vasari Corridor as an option, and a guided outing that adds the Accademia's David. The Uffizi is closed on Mondays; prices were checked in October 2026.
| Feature | THIS PAGE'S CALENDAR Uffizi Gallery Small-Group Guided Tour with Ticket (THINGS TO DO IN) | Uffizi Small Group Tour + Optional Vasari Corridor Access (Florence with Locals Group Tours) | Walking Tour with David, Duomo & Uffizi Gallery (the tour guy) |
|---|---|---|---|
| What You Pay | From $74 per person, with the Uffizi ticket and a headset | From $50 per person, with Uffizi entry; the corridor is an option chosen at booking, and the listing gives the museum's prices as €29 for the Uffizi and €47 with the corridor | From $100 per person, with timed tickets to the Accademia and the Uffizi, valued by the listing at €20 and €29 |
| Rating | 4.7 / 5 from 2,951 reviews | 4.6 / 5 from 145 reviews | 4.7 / 5 from 458 reviews |
| Where It Starts | A meeting point that depends on the option booked; be there 15 minutes early | In front of the Uffizi, by the listing's description | A meeting point that depends on the option booked; the day starts at the Accademia |
| Time With a Guide | 1.5 hours in the Uffizi | 1.5 hours in the Uffizi; the corridor visit is unguided, about 2 hours after the tour starts | About an hour in the Accademia and 2 hours in the Uffizi, with a walk through the centre on the full-day option |
| Group Size | A small group, by its title; the museum caps groups inside at 16, guide included | 9 people at most | 15 people at most |
| Good to Know | Everyone passes a metal detector; no oversize luggage; each ticket carries a name that must match that visitor's ID | Allow 3.5 to 4 hours with the corridor, which is one way and ends by the Pitti Palace with no return to the Uffizi; Pitti and Boboli are not included | Entry to the Duomo is not included; no large bags or drinks; not suitable for wheelchair users |
| Free Cancellation | Up to 24 hours before | Up to 24 hours before | Up to 24 hours before |
| Best For | A guided first look at the Uffizi in an hour and a half | A smaller group for less, or adding the Vasari Corridor | Both galleries in one guided booking |
| Check Dates | See the Corridor Option | See the Two-Gallery Tour |
Five More Ways In
With the Corridor, the David or the Centre
Another 1.5-hour Uffizi tour, a cheaper small-group tour with the Vasari Corridor as an option, and three tours that pair the Uffizi with the Accademia's David on the same day. All five include the Uffizi entry. Prices are in US dollars, checked in October 2026.
GUIDED 1.5 HOURS, THEN FREE TIMEFlorence: Uffizi Small Group Guided Tour with Priority Entry
A 90-minute small-group guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery through Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, with a full-day ticket so you can stay and explore after the guide leaves.
VASARI CORRIDOR OPTION, MAX 9Uffizi Small Group Tour + Optional Vasari Corridor Access
A 90-minute guided tour of the Uffizi's second-floor masterpieces for up to nine people, with an option to walk the Vasari Corridor afterwards to the Pitti side, accompanied by museum staff, not guided.
ACCADEMIA, CITY WALK, THEN UFFIZIFlorence: City Center, Accademia and Uffizi Gallery Tour
A guided day in Florence: the Accademia Gallery and Michelangelo's works, a walk through the centre with a stop at the Duomo complex, then the Uffizi Gallery, with tickets to both galleries.
ART HISTORIAN, GELATO STOPFlorence: Uffizi, Accademia & David Walk with Art Historian
A tour for up to nine with an art historian: the Uffizi's masterpieces, a walk past Piazza della Signoria and the Duomo with a gelato tasting, then Michelangelo's David at the Accademia, tickets included.
HALF-DAY OR FULL-DAY OPTIONFlorence: Walking Tour with David, Duomo & Uffizi Gallery
Guided visits to the Accademia, for Michelangelo's David, and to the Uffizi Gallery with timed tickets, linked on the full-day option by a walk past the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria and Ponte Vecchio.
The Uffizi, October 2026
The Uffizi in 2026: Tickets, Groups and the Corridor
What the gallery holds, what tickets cost this year, the rules on names and groups, the Vasari Corridor, who a tour suits, how long to allow, and the tours.
As of October 2026, a ticket to the Uffizi costs €25 bought on the day or €29 bought in advance, and this year there is no cheaper season and no early-bird ticket. Entering from 4 pm costs €16, or €20 in advance. The gallery opens Tuesday to Sunday from 8:15 am to 6:30 pm, and its ticket office closes at 5:30 pm. It is closed on Mondays, 1 January and 25 December.
The gallery
The Uffizi fills the first and second floors of a building designed by Giorgio Vasari and built between 1560 and 1580. Its name means “offices”: Cosimo I de’ Medici had the palace built to bring the city’s administrative offices under one roof, the museum explains. Its own page lists Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio among the painters in its collections, and the Comune’s tourism site calls it the most visited painting gallery in Italy.
Some rooms on both floors are closed for works in October 2026, and the works from one closed group of rooms have moved down a floor. If a single painting is the reason for your visit, check the Uffizi’s notices before you go.
Tickets and names
Since 13 October 2025 every Uffizi ticket carries the visitor’s name. If the name does not match the ID you show, you are not let in and the ticket is not refunded. Tickets are sold on the museum’s own platform, tickets.uffizi.it, through its call centre and at the ticket offices under the Uffizi’s loggia, and one account can buy up to 10 tickets a day. A ticket allows a single entry. The museum’s ticketing concessionaire recommends booking ahead on busy days, warning that visitors without a reservation may face long waits or find the day’s tickets sold out.
Under-18s of any nationality go free, with under-12s accompanied by an adult. EU citizens from 18 until their 25th birthday pay €2, as do citizens of Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Uruguay. The state museums’ free days still ahead this year are Sunday 1 November, Wednesday 4 November and Sunday 6 December. On those days there are no advance sales, apart from free bookings for limited-entry areas such as the Vasari Corridor, and no priority access except for disabled visitors, pregnant women and EU school groups.
Groups and guides
Only licensed professional guides may guide inside the Uffizi. A group may not exceed 16 people, guides included, groups of more than six must use whisper headsets, and no voice amplifier is allowed. Groups of 11 or more also pay the museum a €70 surcharge, which the operator pays.
The Vasari Corridor
The corridor runs from the Uffizi over Ponte Vecchio to the Pitti Palace. The Uffizi gives it as about 750 metres long, built by Vasari in 1565, and it reopened on 21 December 2024 after closing in 2016. There is no stand-alone daytime ticket. You buy it with the Uffizi, at €43 on the day or €47 in advance, or add a €20 supplement to an Uffizi ticket, a PassePartout or a Firenze Card. On Friday evenings, from 7 to 11 pm until 20 November 2026, a separate ticket costs €20, or €24 in advance.
Daytime visits run Tuesday to Sunday in groups of 25, with two museum staff who accompany the group but do not guide it, and take about 45 minutes. The route is one way. You come out at the Pitti Palace end, with no visit to the palace or the Boboli Gardens included, and you cannot return to the Uffizi. Bulky bags and backpacks are not allowed, one purchase covers five tickets at most, and the museum asks for about two hours between your Uffizi entry and your corridor slot. The Vasari Corridor guide has the details.
Who a guided tour suits
A guide makes most sense when you want the main rooms explained in an hour and a half and the ticket arranged for you. If you already know what you want to see, or plan to stay most of the day, a €29 named ticket bought ahead does the job alone. If you have one day for both the Uffizi and the David, the tours below that cover both save you planning two timed entries.
How long to allow
The guided tours listed here spend 1.5 to 2 hours inside: 90 minutes on most, 110 minutes on Floven Tours’ day and 2 hours on the tour guy’s. Florence with Locals Group Tours, whose route keeps to the second-floor galleries, says the first-floor rooms, with Titian and the Caravaggio rooms, can be visited on your own afterwards. With the Vasari Corridor, that listing advises allowing 3.5 to 4 hours.
The tour on this page
The tour on this page is the small-group guided tour by THINGS TO DO IN, from $74 as of October 2026 and rated 4.7 from 2,951 reviews. It lasts 1.5 hours, with guides in seven languages, English among them, and includes the Uffizi ticket, a headset and help at the meeting point, which depends on the option you book; be there 15 minutes early. The listing names Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Primavera, Michelangelo’s Tondo Doni and Leonardo’s Annunciation among the works on its route. Everyone passes through a metal detector, and oversize luggage is not allowed. The Vasari Corridor is not part of it. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before.
If you want a guide through the Uffizi’s main rooms, with the ticket handled and an hour and a half to spend, this is the tour to book.
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Five more ways in
Crown Tours’ 1.5-hour guided tour (from $65, 4.7 from 1,829 reviews) includes the ticket, an English-speaking guide and staff at the meeting point (check where on your booking confirmation), and you are free to stay on after the guided part. The listing reminds you to give each name exactly as it appears on the ID that person will bring.
Florence with Locals Group Tours’ small-group tour (from $50, 4.6 from 145 reviews) takes nine people at most, meets in front of the Uffizi and offers the Vasari Corridor as an option at booking. Its corridor part is the museum’s accompanied visit, unguided, about two hours after the tour starts, and the listing gives the museum’s prices as €29 for the Uffizi and €47 with the corridor.
Three tours pair the Uffizi with the Accademia’s David on the same day, each from a meeting point that depends on the option you book. Floven Tours’ day (from $142, 4.9 from 240 reviews) starts with an hour in the Accademia, walks through the centre and ends with 110 minutes in the Uffizi, in English or Spanish. Florence with Locals Group Tours’ art-historian walk (from $149, 4.9 from 227 reviews) keeps to nine guests, includes a gelato tasting and takes 3.5 hours as a small group, with about 30 minutes on foot between the galleries; latecomers cannot join and are not refunded. The tour guy’s walking tour (from $100, 4.7 from 458 reviews) includes timed tickets to both galleries, valued by the listing at €20 and €29, in groups of 15 at most, as a half day or as a full day with a walk through the centre; entry to the Duomo is not included.
The David and Accademia page has the timed entry to the Accademia on its own.
Guest Reviews
What Guests Say
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from 3,009 verified guests
"Made such a difference to have an expert like Pam explain the stories behind the paintings. Gave everything a whole new added layer and purpose. Also about the painters themselves. It was very informative and interesting. I am so glad I choose this option. The gallery is huge so direction is great and not rushed either. I would highly recommend this tour"
"Victoria was a great guide and very knowledgeable, more than my brain could take in but I learned a lot."
"Incredible tour with a wonderful guide. Learned so much about the museum and various works of art. Highly recommend."
"It was lovely with a very knowledgeable guide who made the best experience given a very very crowded gallery. Olga was very friendly and well informed."
"Paulina was very informative and we were so happy we went on this tour as it the museum was busy and we would have missed so much on our own. We learned a lot and would highly recommend this tour"
"Manuela was passionate about the art in Firenze. She selected her favorites to show us and it was much better than trying to see as many as possible. She was so knowledgeable about the works and the artists we had few if any questions. Firenze and the Uffizi are lucky to have Manuela as a tour guide."
"Our tour was very informative and interesting, we enjoyed the experience and will recommend highly to everyone."
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The small-group tour by THINGS TO DO IN: 1.5 hours with a guide through the Uffizi, with the entry ticket and a headset included, rated 4.7 from 2,951 reviews. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before; every ticket carries the visitor's name, so bring matching ID, and the gallery is closed on Mondays. Starting from $74 per person in current promotion (usually $103).
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The Uffizi and the Vasari Corridor FAQ
The questions people type about the Uffizi and the Vasari Corridor, answered in the first sentence. Prices and rules are as of October 2026; tour details come from each operator's listing.
The work the tours listed here name most often is Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. Five of the six put it on their route, three of them beside his Primavera, and they also name Leonardo's Annunciation and Michelangelo's Doni Tondo. The Uffizi's own page lists Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio among the painters in its collections.
It depends on how much painting you want from your trip. The museum's own page lists Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio among its painters, and the Comune's tourism site calls it the most visited painting gallery in Italy. A ticket costs €25 on the day or €29 in advance in 2026, or €16 if you enter from 4 pm. If sculpture and the David matter more to you, the Accademia is the gallery to book instead, and three tours listed here do both in one day.
There is no single best way; it comes down to whether you want a guide and how much time you have. On your own, a named ticket bought in advance costs €29 in 2026 and fixes your entry time, while buying on the day for €25 can mean a long wait, which the museum's ticketing concessionaire warns about on busy days. With a guide, the tours listed here spend about 1.5 hours inside, in groups the museum caps at 16 including the guide, with headsets. To add the Vasari Corridor, book it together with the Uffizi, because it has no stand-alone daytime ticket.
"Offices". The museum explains that Cosimo I de' Medici commissioned Giorgio Vasari to build the palace so that the city's administrative offices, the uffizi as they were then called, would be under one roof. It was built between 1560 and 1580, and the gallery now fills its first and second floors.
Yes. Both open Tuesday to Sunday, the Uffizi from 8:15 am to 6:30 pm and the Accademia from 8:15 am to 6:50 pm, and both close on Mondays. On your own, book two timed entries a few hours apart, each in the visitor's name. Three tours listed here do both in one booking: Florence with Locals Group Tours' art-historian walk (3.5 hours as a small group, with about 30 minutes on foot between the galleries), Floven Tours' day with a walk through the centre, and the tour guy's half or full day.
The guided tours listed here spend 1.5 to 2 hours inside. Most take 90 minutes; Floven Tours' day gives the Uffizi 110 minutes and the tour guy's 2 hours. Florence with Locals Group Tours, whose route keeps to the second floor, says the first-floor rooms with Titian and Caravaggio can be seen on your own afterwards, and with the Vasari Corridor it advises allowing 3.5 to 4 hours. The ticket office closes at 5:30 pm and the galleries at 6:30 pm.
The tours listed here name his Annunciation, and Florence with Locals Group Tours also names his Adoration of the Magi. The same listing includes Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ, which it ties to Leonardo's early experiments with light, movement and perspective. Some rooms are closed for works in October 2026, so if one painting is the point of your visit, check the Uffizi's notices first.
For its collections of ancient sculpture and of paintings from the Middle Ages to the modern period, the museum says. Its own page names Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, plus German, Dutch and Flemish painters. The Comune's tourism site calls it the most visited painting gallery in Italy. The building itself was designed by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici's administrative offices.
It is a passage of about 750 metres, by the Uffizi's count, that runs from the Uffizi above the shops of Ponte Vecchio to the Pitti Palace; Giorgio Vasari built it in 1565, and it reopened on 21 December 2024 after closing in 2016. Visits are one way and timed, in groups of 25 with two museum staff who accompany but do not guide, and take about 45 minutes. There is no stand-alone daytime ticket: it costs €43 on the day or €47 in advance with the Uffizi, or a €20 supplement on an Uffizi ticket, PassePartout or Firenze Card. The Vasari Corridor guide covers the rules.
Three you can visit in Florence: the Uffizi building, which he designed, the Vasari Corridor of 1565, and the frescoes inside Brunelleschi's dome, painted with Federico Zuccari. The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore puts the dome frescoes at about 3,600 square metres, and Nicom Tours' dome-climb listing says the stair passes close to them; the Duomo page covers the tickets.
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