Accademia Gallery
- Address:Via Ricasoli 58, Florence
- Hours:Open Tues - Sun 8:15am - 6:30pm
- Admission:€10-14 per adult
Cultural Experience, Must-Do Experience, Monument - Historical, Museum
Accademia Gallery Reviews
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The Accademia tour was in the morning and was very good; and the guide was very good. The Uffizi was late afternoon - but was too crowded with tourists; and the guide spent endless minutes in each area giving art history dissertations. While the Accemia was worth the time, the Uffizi was not.
Fantastic tour - highly recommend! Gave a good insight into the history of this amazing city, and took in many of the major sites with lots of fascinating info. Patrizia was the perfect guide - her passion for Florence is infectious! Obviously, skipping the line for the Duomo and Galleria dell'Accademia is brilliant. I did this walking tour on my first morning in Florence, it was the perfect start, gave me a feel for the city and really set the scene for me getting the most out of my 3-day visit. I feel in love with Florence and I think this tour paved the way for an excellent visit!
We had very nice guides for both of these guided tours. Very knowledgeable and friendly. The obvious highlight of the Accademia is the statue of David. It is a small gallery and everything else is "interesting" but not the highlight. The benefit of a guide in these galleries is clear - without one you either have to be reading a guidebook, or you will just be passing by artworks without knowing the history or connections.
I wish I could separate these tours. Our Accademia tour was interesting and funny at the same time. Our tour guide at Uffizi was not good at all. She did not wait for the tour after security and just went straight up the stairs without her group. A few of us were left behind trying to find her. The tour was okay, just the facts nothing else.
Very good tour - our guide was a pleasure, although we wish he would have used the speaker system like most guides so we didn't feel the need to jostle for position near him so we could hear over the loudness in the Accademia.
A very interesting tour of the Accademia, and Uffizi Gallery in Florence on a whistle stop tour. We went by train from Rome, as my wife doesn't travel too well by coach. Florence is a place we both wanted to visit, and we were not disappointed by the small amount of sites we saw on our short day trip.
The service provided by Viator was simply superb. The only complaint I have is the difficulty identifying the Viator people handing out your tickets. Among the hundreds of people surrounding the Accademia, it would help if your people would carry a large sign with the word "VIATOR" on it.
Guide at the Accademia made it well worth it.
It was very fast getting in but I felt that our tour guide only focused on the statue of David and there was so much more in the Accademia that I wanted to know.
The Uffizi Gallery tour was great. It was a different tour guide and she was wonderful in all stories and history that made it all more easily remembered. Well done "British gal".
We had a great time. The guide for the Accademia was very informative but too verbose. It was hard to remain interested after the first hour. It is important for the guide to remember that the audience is varied not only in interest but in age too. Our guide for the Uffizi was terrific. She kept everyone moving and interested.
Our tour gruide (I forget his name) was really good. He had a great sense of humor and also had in depth knowledge. You could tell that he loved art. He kept us engaged through out. Breaking up Accademia and Uffizi into two parts and giving a break is a good idea.
Antonella was a great guide! We are so glad to have done this tour! We learned a ton, and of course the skipping to the front of the line at the Accademia was worth it as well. Antonella took us around all the prime spots to see, and it was well worth what we paid. I highly recommend this tour. My only regret was not having any cash to tip Antonella. Thank you so much for the insightful tour!!
The guide on our tour was fantastic, very knowledgeable about Florence and the paintings in the Accademia. Finishing up inside the gallery is also very good for those of us who wanted to see more.
We truly enjoyed this tour. I think splitting up the Accademia and Uffizi into 2 time slots with a long lunch in between was a great idea! At the Accademia, I really liked how the guide walked us through Michelangelo’s other works prior to the David and then we had the lots of time with the David to see it from all angels and hear the full background on it. The Uffizi was also amazing. The line to get into the Uffizi was longer than we expected and therefore the tour ran long. That’s the only thing that I would change is making sure that the tour ends on time.
Everything went smoothly. Loved the guide at the Accademia and all the interesting commentary he gave about Michelangelo and background of his work. Different guide at Uffizi, also very delightful and interesting. Really made the experience more enjoyable to get this added information about history of art as it developed.
