Get the Firenze card

Get the Firenze card

Compared with other cultural metropolises of the world, the entrance price of Florence's individual museum is actually very modest, priced at €6,50 to enter the world famous Uffizi Gallery (compared to the €11 Euros it costs to enter the Louvre in Paris). Therefore most people don´t go all the way and spend €50 Euros on the Florence card (link below), that gives you access to almost all museums, churches and chapels' you could possibly want to visit. And for visitors who don´t plan to stay for 2-3 days and to see a lot, it definately wouldn´t be worth spending the €50. I would then ask, however, why on earth you would want to come a unique city like Florence, and only spend one day? Why go to Florence, if it´s just for the shopping and the atmosphere, there are so many other places to go to for that. Here´s a list of top priorities of things to see and places to go, which will make the Firenze card worth while, even without taking into account all of the money spent hanging out in cafés:

1. Ascending to the top of the Santa Maria del Fiori Dome *.

2. Uffizi Gallery

3. Palazzo Vecchio

4. Palazzo Pitti **

5. The Medici Chapel

6. Galleria Accademia

7. Santa maria Novellea

8. National Museum Bargello

9. Palazzo Medici Riccardi

10.The Michelangelo Museum

*when you're  at the Santa Maria del Fiori and you have the stamina, you would want to climb Giotto's bellower as well and enter the Baptistery and the Museum of the opera, adding another 3 entries.

**Here you might want to also enter the Bargello Gardens requiring an extra ticket without the Florence Card.

For any excess time, the are many additional churches with beautiful fresco's to be seen, I recommend Santa Spirito, Santa Della Carmine and San Marco, where Ghirlandaio's fresco of the Last Supper hangs, which Leonardo da Vinci had seen before he made his famous one near Milan. 

On top of all that comes two additional (and very important) reasons for getting the Firenze card:

1. Free access to public transport for 72 hours.

2. No queues, skip the waiting line - very important at the most popular sites and during peak season.We definitely felt like V.I.P's.

Conclusion: Even if you have to skip a visit to a restaurant it really pays off with the Florence Card, get it and you won't regret it. I personally find €50 a little bit expensive, and I´d wish it would lasted longer than 72 hours perhaps 4 or 5 days  like in Paris and London, but nevertheless having done the trip, we wouldn´t hesitate  recommending any visitor, who's staying for more than 1 night, to invest in the Florence card.

The easiest place of purchase is in the tourist information in the Santa Maria Novella, right at across from the train station. More info about the Florence card can be found at the card's homepage: http://www.firenzecard.it/?lang=en