The palace that Giorgio Vasari built between 1560 and 1580 for the Medici offices, open to the public since 1769. Inside, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio; above the Arno, the Vasari Corridor that crosses Ponte Vecchio.
The official price, alongsideThe Uffizi ticket and online offers, side by side
Hours and closuresFrom 8:15 to 18:30, closed on Mondays
Free cancellationUp to 24 hours before, on every tour on this page
Official sourcesPrices and rules from the Uffizi Galleries
Tickets and tours
Choose how to enter the Uffizi
In the centre, the small-group guided tour with the ticket included. On the sides, the ticket with an audio guide app and the Uffizi and Accademia tour in groups of up to 15. Each card opens the full tour page.
The Uffizi entry ticket for the day, with a multilingual audio guide to download on your phone and a map of the Gallery. At the meeting point, coordinators will be waiting for you: bring headphones and a document.
One and a half hours with a guide inside the Gallery, with the entry ticket already included in the price and headsets to hear clearly. After the tour, you can stay in the rooms on your own.
Timed entry to the Uffizi and the Accademia Gallery with a guided tour, in groups of up to 15 people and with radios and headsets. Duration and meeting point depend on the option.
Three questions are enough. Do you want a guide or do you prefer to explore with the audio guide? Are the Uffizi enough or do you also want the Accademia and the David? And is the Vasari Corridor part of the plan?
The official ticket costs €25 on the day and €29 in advance, on tickets.uffizi.it, at the call centre or at the ticket office. All tours on this table can be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before.
Before booking
One ticket, one name.
The Uffizi ticket is named and valid for one entry only: staff may ask for it in any room, so keep it until you exit. It costs €25 if bought on the day and €29 if bought in advance; with the 'Afternoon' promotion, entering from 16:00, it drops to €16. The Uffizi recommend buying it in advance 'especially during periods of high attendance'.
Online offers add something else: a live guide, an audio guide on your phone, the Accademia in the same visit, or the Vasari Corridor. Each listing states exactly what is included in the price. Guides Tour details
1769
The year the Gallery officially opened to the public. A museum in all respects since 1865.
Named ticketGuided tourAudio guideVasari Corridor
Along the corridors, ancient statues and busts of the Medici: mostly Roman copies of lost Greek originals.
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Can you buy it on the spot?
Yes, at the ticket offices under the loggia. Or online on tickets.uffizi.it and at the call centre.
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How much does it cost?
€25 on the day, €29 in advance. €2 for ages 18 to 25 in the EU; free for under-18s.
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When is it closed?
Every Monday, 1 January and 25 December. On other days from 8:15 to 18:30.
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And the Corridor?
Separate ticket: €43 with the Uffizi, €47 in advance, named and non-refundable.
The visit
How a visit works
From one and a half hours with a guide in the morning to the whole morning with the Accademia. This is the form of almost all.
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Date and time
The ticket on tickets.uffizi.it, at the call centre or inside an offer that includes it. Every ticket bears the visitor's name.
One entry only
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The checks
Backpacks, bags and umbrellas go to the cloakroom, which is free. Then the metal detector, with jackets and coats in the baskets.
Free cloakroom
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The rooms
The Gallery occupies the first and second floors: Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio and the Flemish painters.
Two floors
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The exit or the Corridor
With the Corridor ticket, you present yourself at room D19 on the first floor and exit into the Boboli Gardens.
The hours, 2026 prices, reductions and room rules: one card each.
Tuesday to Sunday: 8:15 to 18:30.
Last entry: 17:30; at 18:30 you head towards the exit.
Closed: every Monday, 1 January and 25 December.
Vasari Corridor: Tuesday to Sunday, first group at 10:15, last at 16:45.
Friday evening: from 3 July to 20 November 2026 the Corridor opens from 19:00 to 23:00.
Full-price: €25 bought on the day, €29 bought in advance.
Afternoon: €16 entering from 16:00, €20 if bought in advance.
Uffizi + Vasari Corridor: €43 bought on the day, €47 in advance.
PassePartout 5 Days: €40 for Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and Boboli over 5 days; €58 with the Corridor.
Online on GetYourGuide: ticket with audio guide app from $36, guided tour from $74, Corridor from $50.
Reduced €2: EU citizens from 18 up to their 25th birthday, with ID; also Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Uruguay.
Free under 18 with ID; under 12 with an adult.
Free for people with disabilities and one companion.
First Sunday of the month: free entry for everyone, no booking.
Groups of 11 or more: a flat surcharge of €70.
Backpacks, bags and umbrellas to the free cloakroom; there is a metal detector at the entrance.
No food and drinks in the rooms; baby food is allowed.
Photos yes, but without flash, selfie sticks or tripods.
Appropriate clothing and phone on silent. All in the rules guide.
Ticket officeUnder the loggiaIn the Piazzale degli Uffizi, during museum hours.
Last entryAt 17:30It closes at 18:30, from Tuesday to Sunday.
Afternoon€16Entering from 16:00; €20 if bought in advance.
First SundayFreeFree entry, but no possibility to book.
Corridor€43Uffizi plus Corridor, bought on the day.
GroupsUp to 16The maximum per group, with headsets for more than 6 people.
Where is it
Next to Piazza della Signoria
The piazzale and meeting points
Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence
The Uffizi are next to Piazza della Signoria, and the long courtyard opens at the end onto the Arno. The ticket offices are under the loggia of the piazzale; wheelchair users enter via the ramp on via della Ninna. Each tour has its own meeting point, written in the booking.
Statue of Nicola Pisano, in the piazzale: the small-group tour
Statue of Leonardo, in the piazzale: Corridor and art historian
Fontana del Nettuno: ticket with audio guide and dedicated entrance
Via dei Castellani 14: private tour and Uffizi with Accademia
4.7★★★★★ 2,974 reviews · Small-group guided tour Rating on GetYourGuide
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Our guide, Pam, was fantastic! She knew the paintings and the building inside out. We really enjoyed it.
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An excellent guide who told us about the most famous works well. Then she gave us more information for free time after the tour, to explore on our own.
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A competent and very active companion. She gave us all the information to enter the Gallery without difficulty.
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Angela was really wonderful. She took the time to explain everything clearly and answer every question, without rushing us.
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Excellent tour. We liked the small group, and we were able to ask a lot of questions.
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A wonderful private tour with Francesca. Very knowledgeable, friendly and fun: she made the experience enjoyable and full of information.
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Camilla was fantastic! Very knowledgeable, and spoke perfect English.
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Francesca was extraordinary! The galleries were splendid and we enjoyed listening to the history and many curiosities that we would never have discovered on our own.
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Wonderful: the guide was knowledgeable and very pleasant. She brought all the art to life! It couldn't have gone better.
After the Uffizi
Brunelleschi's dome
For the next day, or for the afternoon: the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore with a guide and the climb up the dome.
A guided tour of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore with the climb up Brunelleschi's dome and, depending on the option, the terraces or the museum. A dress code applies: knees and shoulders covered.
The name already says a lot: 'uffizi' means offices. Before becoming one of the first modern museums, Vasari's palace housed the magistrates of Florence.
Vasari's palace
In 1560, Cosimo I de' Medici commissioned Giorgio Vasari to build a building that would bring together in one place the committees, magistrates and guilds of republican Florence. The palace was built between 1560 and 1580 and completed by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti. The long narrow courtyard opens onto the Arno at the end, with a portico that frames the river without enclosing it.
Cosimo's son, Francesco I, asked Buontalenti for the Tribuna: a room where masterpieces and jewels could be displayed in a single space. It became one of the most famous stops on the Grand Tour.
The Tribuna, commissioned by Francesco I and designed by Buontalenti.
From the Medici to everyone
When the Medici dynasty died out in 1737, Anna Maria Luisa ceded the family collections to the House of Lorraine with one condition: the works had to remain in Florence and could not be sold. Thanks to that pact, the collections have arrived intact to this day. The Gallery, visitable by request since the 16th century, officially opened to the public in 1769 and became a museum in 1865.
On 27 May 1993, a mafia car bomb exploded in via dei Georgofili, next to the palace: five people died and part of the building was damaged.
The thing to know about the ticket: it is named and valid for one entry only, so bring a document and keep it until you exit. The official price is €25 on the day and €29 in advance; offers on GetYourGuide add a guide, an audio guide, the Accademia or the Corridor, and every tour page exactly states what is included.
What's in the rooms
The Gallery occupies the entire first and second floors. The 14th- and Renaissance-century rooms feature Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, as well as many German, Dutch and Flemish painters. The corridors display the ancient statues and busts of the Medici. The must-see works, room by room, are in the guide what to see at the Uffizi.
Works may be on loan or under restoration: the Uffizi publish the list.
The Vasari Corridor
About 750 metres long, Vasari built it in 1565 so that Cosimo I could pass undisturbed from Palazzo Pitti to Palazzo Vecchio. It exits the Uffizi, follows the Arno, crosses above Ponte Vecchio and arrives at Boboli. In the 17th century Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici turned it into a gallery of self-portraits. Closed in 2016 to bring it up to safety standards, it has been restored and can be visited again: the rules are in the guide to the Vasari Corridor.
The Corridor runs above the river for about 750 metres.
Direct answers to the most frequent questions about the Uffizi.
How much does a Uffizi ticket cost?
The full-price ticket costs €25 if you buy it on the day e €29 if you buy it in advance. With the «Afternoon» promotion, for those entering from 16:00, it drops to €16 (€20 in advance). The reduced ticket costs €2 for EU citizens aged 18 to 25, and under 18s enter free with ID. On GetYourGuide, tickets start from $36. All in the ticket guide.
Where can you buy official Uffizi tickets?
Online on the official platform tickets.uffizi.it, at the call centre (800 615 615, or +39 055 0354135 from abroad and mobile phones, every day from 8:00 to 19:00) and at the ticket offices under the loggia of Piazzale degli Uffizi.
Is it worth booking Uffizi tickets in advance?
The Uffizi themselves recommend it, 'especially during periods of high attendance', to 'avoid long queues at the entrance and reduce waiting times'. A ticket bought in advance costs €29 instead of €25. Tours on GetYourGuide include the ticket with a fixed time slot.
What are the Uffizi opening hours?
Tuesday to Sunday, 8:15 to 18:30, with last entry at 17:30. The Uffizi are closed every Monday, 1 January and 25 December. More details in the hours guide.
When is entry to the Uffizi free?
The first Sunday of every month, with the «Domenica al Museo» initiative. On that day, entry cannot be booked and priority only applies to people with disabilities and pregnant women. Under 18s always enter free with ID. We discuss it in the blog.
How long do you need to visit the Uffizi?
The Vasari Corridor regulations consider 2 hours the «minimum time expected for visiting the Gallery». Guided tours on GetYourGuide usually last one and a half hours, and afterwards you can stay in the rooms on your own.
How do you visit the Vasari Corridor?
With a Uffizi + Corridor ticket €43 (€47 if bought in advance), named, with mandatory booking and non-refundable. You enter the Uffizi 2 hours beforehand, present yourself at room D19 on the first floor and walk the Corridor in about 45 minutes to the Boboli Garden. All in the Corridor guide.
Can you enter the Uffizi with a backpack?
No: backpacks, bags, umbrellas and other bulky items must be left in the cloakroom, which is free, and there is a metal detector at the entrance. Food and drinks cannot be brought inside, except liquids for medical or dietary reasons and baby food.
Can you take photos in the Uffizi?
Yes, but without flash and without selfie sticks, tripods or professional equipment. The regulations ask you to speak quietly and keep your phone switched off or on silent.
Is there a dress code at the Uffizi?
The Uffizi require appropriate clothing: no swimwear, overly revealing clothes, wedding dresses, historical costumes or fancy dress, and you cannot go barefoot or bare-chested. Other rules in the rules guide.
Is Michelangelo's David in the Uffizi?
No. Michelangelo's David is at the Accademia Gallery, another museum in Florence. At the Uffizi, by Michelangelo you will find the Doni Tondo. This is why many visits combine the two galleries: we compare them in the guide Uffizi and Accademia.
Are the Uffizi accessible by wheelchair?
Yes. The access ramp is on via della Ninna and there is a lift; courtesy wheelchairs and walkers are free, at Porta 1. People with disabilities and one companion enter for free.
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