Florence 3-day itinerary
3 days in Florence, planned the tabi way — one neighbourhood per day, gapless timing, every stop chosen from 36 human-verified places across 6 curated neighbourhoods. Open it offline and follow it street by street, or make it the starting point for your own plan.
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Duomo & Signoria & nearby — a sights day
The monumental heart — Brunelleschi's dome, the Uffizi and the statue-lined Piazza della Signoria packed into a few pedestrian blocks. Crowded by mid-morning; the trick is timed tickets and early starts.
- 08:0008:30BreakfastPick a spot nearby — not booked yet
- 08:3009:10MarketMercato di Sant'Ambrogio40 min
Florence's working neighbourhood market, a calmer and far less touristy alternative to Mercato Centrale — fruit and vegetable stalls out front, a covered hall of butchers, fishmongers and delis inside, and a handful of lunch counters (including Trattoria da Rocco) tucked among the produce. Open Monday to Saturday, 7:00–14:00; closed entirely on Sundays, and quietest right after opening or approaching closing time. No entry fee — just come hungry and bring some cash for stalls that don't run card machines.
marketfood marketlocal life - 09:10~15 min walkroute
- 09:2510:55
Historic site90 minFlorence's still-functioning town hall, fortress-like from outside and frescoed wall-to-wall inside — the Salone dei Cinquecento alone is worth the ticket, a hall built for a 500-strong council and later reworked by Vasari with monumental battle frescoes for the Medici. Full museum ticket is €18 (€12 reduced 18-25/students, free under 17); open daily 9:00-19:00 except Thursday, when it closes at 14:00 — plan around that if Thursday is your only slot. A separate ticket (€20 full, €13 reduced) climbs the crenellated Torre di Arnolfo for the best rooftop view over the Duomo and Piazza della Signoria, on the same daily schedule as the museum but closing at 17:00 (14:00 Thursdays); the tower shuts to visitors in the rain. Arrive 15 minutes before your booked slot.
Cards OKhistoricallandmarkmuseum - 10:55~5 min walkroute
- 11:1011:50
LandmarkPiazza della Signoria e Loggia dei Lanzi40 minFlorence's outdoor sculpture gallery and civic stage, free and open around the clock — a copy of Michelangelo's David stands where the original once did outside Palazzo Vecchio, Cellini's bronze Perseus holds Medusa's severed head, and the open-air Loggia dei Lanzi shelters more Renaissance and Roman statuary under its arches, also free, no ticket or booking. Café tables ringing the square charge tourist prices for the view — a coffee here costs several times what you'd pay standing at a bar counter a few streets away. Come early morning or after dinner to actually see the statues without a wall of phone cameras; by day this is the most crowded square in the historic centre.
Step-freepiazzalandmarkfree - 11:50~5 min walkroute
- 12:0513:05LunchSuggested
- 13:0515:35
GalleryGalleria degli Uffizi150 minThe world's finest collection of Renaissance painting — Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, work by Leonardo, Titian and Caravaggio, in the Medici family's own former administrative offices. Ticket prices split by season: €25 in high season (March-October), €12 in low season (November-February), plus a non-refundable €4 online booking fee either way; since 1 January 2026 a discounted €16 afternoon ticket covers entry from 16:00. Booking isn't strictly mandatory but is close to it in practice — walk-up tickets sell out and queues can run 1-2 hours April-October, while November-March before 10:00 or after 16:00 is usually fine without a reservation. Closed Mondays; the first Sunday of every month is free entry for everyone (arrive early, it's the busiest day of the month) and afternoon crowds thin noticeably after 16:00.
Cards OKStep-freemuseumgalleryclosed this day — verify before going - 15:35~5 min walkroute
- 15:5016:50
MuseumMuseo Nazionale del Bargello60 minFlorence's medieval town-hall-turned-fortress holds the city's great Renaissance sculpture collection — Donatello's bronze David, Michelangelo's early Bacchus, and Ghiberti and Brunelleschi's competing Baptistery-door panels displayed side by side. The museum simplified its notoriously confusing calendar in March 2026: it's now simply closed every Monday and open Tuesday–Sunday 8:15–18:50 (last admission 18:00) — many older guidebooks still list the previous alternating 1st/3rd/5th-Monday and 2nd/4th-Sunday closures, so ignore those. The standard ticket is €12, valid 48 hours. Ground-floor rooms are wheelchair-accessible via ramp and lift, with staff assistance for raised thresholds between rooms; only the Chapel and Sacristy are excluded.
Cards OKStep-freemuseumsculptureclosed this day — verify before going - 17:3018:45DinnerSuggested
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A truffle-sandwich institution since 1885 on Florence's smartest shopping street, a 5-minute walk from Santa Maria Novella — small, bite-sized panini tartufati (truffle cream, butter and truffle, prosciutto and truffle cream) served with a glass of wine from the Antinori family, who own the place today. Open daily 10:00-21:00 (Sunday 11:00-20:00), no weekly closure, walk-in only — it's an upright counter-and-small-tables spot for a quick, elegant bite rather than a sit-down meal, and pricier per bite than a standard panino given the truffle and the address. A handy stop for an aperitivo-hour glass of wine plus a few sandwiches between Santa Maria Novella and the river.
Running since 1930 and often called the oldest gelateria in Florence, tucked into an alley just west of Santa Croce — the signature order is the affogato, a scoop drowned in hot espresso (from about €6, more for specialty flavours like pistachio). Closed Mondays; open Tuesday–Saturday 8:00–21:00 and Sunday 9:00–20:00, with summer evenings sometimes running later. The counter moves fast even when the line looks long, but expect a genuine queue at peak afternoon hours.
San Niccolò & Piazzale Michelangelo & nearby — a sights day
The sunset quarter — climb past rose gardens to Piazzale Michelangelo's postcard view, catch the Gregorian vespers at San Miniato, then descend to wine bars built into the old city gate.
- 08:0008:30BreakfastPick a spot nearby — not booked yet
- 08:3009:00
Viewpoint30 minThe classic postcard view of Florence — the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio and the Arno's bridges laid out below a bronze replica of Michelangelo's David. Free, no ticket, open all day and night; sunset is the famous time to come and it gets genuinely crowded April–October, so arrive at least 30 minutes early to claim a spot at the rail, or come at sunrise or mid-morning instead for the same view with almost nobody around. Bus 12 or 13 reaches the piazzale directly for anyone who doesn't want to climb the steps up from Oltrarno; food and drink stalls at the top are priced for the view, not the quality.
viewpointsunsetfree - 09:00~5 min walkroute
- 09:3010:00
ChurchBasilica di San Miniato al Monte30 minFlorence's oldest church (consecrated 1018), a green-and-white marble Romanesque facade a steep climb above Piazzale Michelangelo — and quieter than the crowds at the viewpoint just below it. The resident Olivetan Benedictine monks sing Vespers in Latin Gregorian chant every evening at 18:30, open to anyone who walks in and sits down; weekday Mass at 18:00 is also chanted, and Sunday adds services at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30 with Gregorian chant again at the 17:30 Mass. Entry is free, no booking needed. The scenic route up is a monumental staircase with no ramp; visitors who need step-free access should instead approach via Via delle Porte Sante, where a car can drop off at the gravel forecourt and a ramp plus portable platform lead into the church.
churchmonasteryviewpoint - 10:00~20 min walkroute
- 10:2011:35
GardenGiardino di Boboli75 minThe Medici's formal amphitheatre garden behind Pitti Palace, terraced up the hillside with cypress avenues, grottoes and a view back over the Boboli obelisk to the Florence skyline. Unlike the Palace, Boboli opens on most Mondays — but it's closed on the first and last Monday of every month (plus 25 December and 1 January), a quirk that trips up a lot of visitors. Hours shift with the season: roughly 8:15–16:30 in deep winter, stretching to 8:15–19:10 in June–August as shown here (last admission always an hour before closing). A standalone Boboli-only ticket runs €10 same-day / €13 in advance. The gravel-and-pebble paths and slopes up to 20% are hard going in a wheelchair unaccompanied, though the gardens' Accessibility Department can arrange an easier route by request.
gardenparkviewpoint - 11:35~5 min walkroute
- 12:0013:00LunchSuggested
- 13:0014:30
MuseumPalazzo Pitti90 minThe Medici family's vast former residence holds five separate museums under one roof — the Palatine Gallery's wall-to-wall Raphaels and Titians, the Royal Apartments, and Treasury, Costume and Modern Art collections upstairs. The 2026 combined ticket covering Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens and Bardini Garden costs €22 bought same-day or €25 booked in advance (a 5-day pass adding the Uffizi runs €40). Open Tuesday–Sunday 8:15–18:30, closed Mondays. Elevators and ramps reach every floor, wheelchairs loan free at the entrance, and disabled visitors can request staff assistance on arrival.
Cards OKStep-freemuseumpalace - 14:30~5 min walkroute
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ChurchBasilica di Santo Spirito25 minBrunelleschi's last work and, to many architects, his purest — a calm grid of grey pietra serena columns inside, a deceptively plain façade outside that never got its planned marble front. General entry is free; a €2 add-on unlocks the sacristy and Michelangelo's wooden crucifix, carved around age 17. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday–Saturday 10:00–13:00 and 15:00–18:00; Sunday and holidays 11:30–13:30 and 15:00–18:00 — but closed all day Wednesday, an easy day to get caught out on. The piazza outside is one of Oltrarno's liveliest, especially at evening aperitivo hour.
churchfreepiazza - 15:25~10 min walkroute
- 15:4016:00
Landmark20 minFlorence's oldest bridge, and the only one the retreating German army didn't blow up in 1944 — lined with gold and jewellery workshops since Grand Duke Ferdinando I evicted the butchers and tanners in 1593. The bridge itself is free and open around the clock; the shops generally trade about 10:00–19:30 and close on Sundays or Monday mornings depending on the workshop. Come at dawn to see it without the midday crush, or after the shops shutter for a quieter view over the Arno from the small terrace at its centre — the Vasari Corridor runs invisibly above the shops, a private passage once used by the Medici.
bridgelandmarkmust see - 17:3018:45DinnerSuggested
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Florence's Franciscan basilica holds the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Machiavelli and Rossini — plus Giotto's frescoes in the Bardi and Peruzzi chapels and the leather school in the old dormitory. The 2026 adult ticket is €10 (covers the basilica, both cloisters, the Pazzi Chapel and the Museo dell'Opera); children under 12, disabled visitors and their companions, and Florence residents enter free at the cashier. Open Monday–Saturday 9:30–17:30 (last entry 17:00); Sunday and religious holidays it opens only at 14:00 for morning Mass, so plan a Sunday visit for the afternoon. Modest dress (shoulders and knees covered) is expected, as it remains a working church.
The schiacciata (flatbread sandwich) chain that turned a single Via dei Neri counter into a global name — the original flagship here now spans several adjoining storefronts (numbers 65, 74, 76 and 78r) just to handle the volume, all open 10:00-22:00 daily with no closing day. The queue at the main counter runs long all day, especially 12:00-15:00 and 19:00-21:00; check the storefronts a few doors down first, since they serve the same menu with a shorter wait. La Favolosa (mortadella, pistachio cream, stracciatella) is the signature order — cash isn't needed, card and contactless are standard, and there's nowhere to sit, so plan to eat standing or walking.
The cathedral nave itself is free, no ticket needed, open Mon-Sat 10:15-15:45 (closed Sundays to sightseers, who are welcome only at Mass) — modest dress is enforced, no bare shoulders or knees, no flip-flops. Climbing Brunelleschi's dome requires the paid Brunelleschi Pass (€30 full, €12 age 7-14, free under 6), which bundles the Dome, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistery, the Opera del Duomo Museum and the Santa Reparata crypt into one 3-day-validity ticket — only the Dome slot itself is fixed to a specific date and time. Book the Dome slot as far ahead as you can on the official duomo.firenze.it site: it regularly sells out 2-4 weeks in advance in high season, and once booked the date/time cannot be changed. The climb is 463 steps with no elevator, taking about 45-50 minutes, and is genuinely tough for anyone with knee or heart concerns or claustrophobia in the narrow final stairwell — but the reward is Brunelleschi's engineering up close and Florence spread out below.
Florence's oldest gelateria still in family hands, opened in 1939 between Piazza della Signoria and Piazza della Repubblica and still run by the founding Cammilli family, using recipes largely unchanged since. Hours shift with the season — roughly 12:00-20:00 in winter (Nov-Feb) stretching to midnight in peak summer (Mar-Oct); closed Tuesdays year-round, so check before a Tuesday detour. The crema and pistachio are the classics to try, texture noticeably denser and less airy than mass-market gelato chains nearby — a useful benchmark if you want to compare against a more industrial scoop elsewhere in the centre.
Santa Maria Novella & nearby — a museum day
The arrival quarter with a serene core — the striped basilica and its cloisters, a 400-year-old pharmacy selling perfume under frescoed ceilings, and Via Tornabuoni's quiet luxury a street away.
- 07:4008:00Check out of your stayUsually due by 10:00–12:00 — most stays hold your bags if you ask.
- 08:1508:45BreakfastPick a spot nearby — not booked yet
- 08:4509:45
MuseumCappelle Medicee60 minThe Medici dynasty's mausoleum behind San Lorenzo, split into the ornate, semi-precious-stone-clad Cappella dei Principi and Michelangelo's austere, unfinished New Sacristy with his own Medici tomb sculptures — Dawn, Dusk, Night and Day. Officially part of the state-run Bargello Museums group, current hours are Tuesday-Sunday 08:15-18:50, closed every Monday (older guides citing an alternating 1st/3rd/5th-Monday, 2nd/4th-Sunday pattern are out of date — verify against bargellomusei.it if planning around a Monday). Full ticket is €11, reduced €2 for EU citizens 18-24, free under 18; last entry 40 minutes before closing. A separately bookable, extra-cost add-on (the 'Secret Room' with Michelangelo's charcoal wall sketches) requires its own reservation and isn't included in the standard ticket.
Cards OKmuseumrenaissancehistorical - 09:45~5 min walkroute
- 10:0011:00
ChurchBasilica di San Lorenzo60 minThe Medici family's parish church, one of Brunelleschi's clean early-Renaissance interiors and the burial place of Cosimo the Elder — the combined €9 ticket covers the basilica, Old Sacristy, cloisters, Treasury Museum and the crypt underground. Open Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:30 (last entry 16:30), closed all day Sunday — plan a weekday or Saturday visit. The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Michelangelo's staircase and reading room) and the Medici Chapels next door both require separate tickets bought independently; a combined basilica-plus-library ticket runs €9.50 if you want both. Closed 1 January, 6 January and 10 August in addition to the weekly Sunday closure.
Cards OKchurchrenaissancehistorical - 11:00~5 min walkroute
- 11:1512:15
MarketMercato Centrale60 minA single 1874 cast-iron-and-glass hall split into two very different experiences stacked on top of each other. The ground floor is the working produce market — butchers, fishmongers, cheesemongers, fresh pasta and lampredotto carts — open Mon-Sat 07:00-14:00 and closed entirely on Sunday. Upstairs is a modern food hall added in 2014, with 24-plus artisan counters (pasta, truffle dishes, pizza, wine, craft beer, gelato) and long communal tables, open daily including Sunday, roughly 10:00 to midnight — the upstairs hall is where to go for a Sunday or evening visit when the ground floor is shut. No entry fee either way; just budget for what you eat, and expect it genuinely packed at lunch and dinner peak hours.
Cards OKStep-freemarketfood hall - 12:15~5 min walkroute
- 12:3013:30LunchSuggested
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ChurchBasilica di Santa Maria Novella60 minThe Dominican basilica facing the train station square, its green-and-white marble facade a Renaissance landmark in its own right and its interior holding Masaccio's Trinity fresco, an early landmark of perspective painting. A single €7.50 ticket (€5 reduced) covers the basilica, museum and cloisters together since a 2012 agreement between the church authority and the city. Hours vary meaningfully by day: Mon-Thu 9:00-17:30, Friday and religious holidays 11:00-17:30 (later opening), Saturday 9:00-17:00, Sunday and religious holidays 13:00-17:00 (afternoon only) — last entry is an hour before closing, so a Sunday morning visit won't work. Closed to visitors on Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
Cards OKchurchrenaissancehistorical - 14:30~5 min walkroute
- 14:4515:15MuseumOfficina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella30 min
The world's oldest working pharmacy, founded by Dominican friars in 1221 a few steps from the basilica that gives it its name — frescoed Renaissance and neo-Gothic salons you can wander through completely free, no ticket needed, browsing perfumes, soaps and herbal remedies made to centuries-old formulas whether or not you buy anything. Open daily 9:00-20:00 with no weekly closure, so it's an easy fallback if a timed-ticket sight nearby is fully booked. It's a working shop as much as a museum — expect it busy with both tour groups and shoppers by mid-morning; the historic back rooms are quieter than the front retail salon.
Cards OKmuseumhistoricalshopping - 15:15~5 min walkroute
- 15:3016:30MuseumMuseo Novecento60 min
Florence's 20th-century Italian art museum, right on Piazza Santa Maria Novella in a former 13th-century hospital building — a compact, manageable counterpoint to a day of Renaissance sightseeing, with de Chirico, Morandi and Rosai among the highlights. Full ticket is €8.50 (€4 reduced for ages 18-25/students, free under 18). Open daily 11:00-20:00 except Thursday, when it's closed entirely — the opposite closure day from several nearby civic sights, worth checking before building a Thursday itinerary around this corner of the neighbourhood. Last entry is an hour before closing.
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Florence's Franciscan basilica holds the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Machiavelli and Rossini — plus Giotto's frescoes in the Bardi and Peruzzi chapels and the leather school in the old dormitory. The 2026 adult ticket is €10 (covers the basilica, both cloisters, the Pazzi Chapel and the Museo dell'Opera); children under 12, disabled visitors and their companions, and Florence residents enter free at the cashier. Open Monday–Saturday 9:30–17:30 (last entry 17:00); Sunday and religious holidays it opens only at 14:00 for morning Mass, so plan a Sunday visit for the afternoon. Modest dress (shoulders and knees covered) is expected, as it remains a working church.
Florence's oldest gelateria still in family hands, opened in 1939 between Piazza della Signoria and Piazza della Repubblica and still run by the founding Cammilli family, using recipes largely unchanged since. Hours shift with the season — roughly 12:00-20:00 in winter (Nov-Feb) stretching to midnight in peak summer (Mar-Oct); closed Tuesdays year-round, so check before a Tuesday detour. The crema and pistachio are the classics to try, texture noticeably denser and less airy than mass-market gelato chains nearby — a useful benchmark if you want to compare against a more industrial scoop elsewhere in the centre.
The cathedral nave itself is free, no ticket needed, open Mon-Sat 10:15-15:45 (closed Sundays to sightseers, who are welcome only at Mass) — modest dress is enforced, no bare shoulders or knees, no flip-flops. Climbing Brunelleschi's dome requires the paid Brunelleschi Pass (€30 full, €12 age 7-14, free under 6), which bundles the Dome, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistery, the Opera del Duomo Museum and the Santa Reparata crypt into one 3-day-validity ticket — only the Dome slot itself is fixed to a specific date and time. Book the Dome slot as far ahead as you can on the official duomo.firenze.it site: it regularly sells out 2-4 weeks in advance in high season, and once booked the date/time cannot be changed. The climb is 463 steps with no elevator, taking about 45-50 minutes, and is genuinely tough for anyone with knee or heart concerns or claustrophobia in the narrow final stairwell — but the reward is Brunelleschi's engineering up close and Florence spread out below.
Two steps from the Duomo on Via del Proconsolo, a cramped, elbow-to-elbow trattoria that's been feeding locals and lunching lawyers from the nearby Bargello courts since the 1940s — the daily-changing handwritten menu runs through ribollita, pappa al pomodoro and a genuinely good bistecca alla fiorentina at a fair price for the location. It's closed Saturday and Sunday entirely, open only Monday-Friday lunch (12:00-14:30) and dinner (19:00-21:30), so don't plan a weekend visit around it. No reservations are taken for lunch — arrive right at opening or expect a short wait outside; turnover is fast so the line moves.
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