A museum card useful for different types of tourists: here is all the information to buy, activate and make the most of the Firenze Card. Ready to go?
Why are you planning to come to Firenze?
To greet a friend, to taste the steak or maybe for visit its extraordinary cultural and artistic offer? If this is the reason then there is something that can help and accompany you in this pleasant but also a bit demanding activity: Florence Card.
Firenze Card: how it works
The Firenze Card is a museum card that has already existed for years and that is growing, in the number of buyers, in the services offered, in the museums included and unfortunately also in the price.
Right now (May 2019) you can buy it for 85 euros per person, the validity is 72 hours from the first activation (i.e. from the first use) and the places to visit included, including museums and monuments, are just over seventy between Florence city and some towns in the surrounding area.
Why buy the Firenze Card
Everyone is in it, big and less big: the David of Michelangelo Venus of Botticelli Brunelleschi's Dome, Palazzo Vecchio...
However, the Firenze Card is very useful for different types of tourists: for families, for example, because every adult can include a minor on their card; for those who stay a few days in the city, who have the opportunity to plan their visits by organizing them intelligently, without having to book admission to the most visited museums.
At the moment, access to the Dome is not guaranteed and reservations are required. To book you need to collect the free ticket at the ticket office in Piazza San Giovanni 7 and make the reservation at the special totem. ATTENTION: the collection of the ticket acts as an 'activation' of the Firenzecard, starting from which the 72 hours of validity will begin to run.
Temporary suspension of priority access to Giotto's Bell Tower, Baptistery of San Giovanni, Crypt of Santa Reparata and Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
The Card is also interesting for those visitors who may not be in Florence for the first time and who have the opportunity to visit museums or places a little less crowded, such as certain municipal museums, or the Medici villas or the most recent openings. ...
To be able to take advantage of the priority entrance to the Uffizi Gallery and Galleria dell'Accademia it is necessary to make a compulsory reservation, free of charge in the following ways:
1. By calling the Firenze Musei multilingual call center at + 39 055-294883 (from 8.30 to 18.30 from Monday to Friday; from 8.30 to 12.30 on Saturday), providing your name and surname. The service is not active on Sundays and holidays. You will receive a code to be presented at the Orsanmichele Ticket Office, My Accademia Ticket Office and Uffizi Ticket Office to collect the booking coupon to be shown, together with your Firenzecard, at the priority access doors of the museums.
2. On site at one of the following points, showing your Firenzecard: Orsanmichele Ticket Office (at the Orsanmichele Church, Via dei Calzaiuoli side, from Monday to Saturday 9.00-16.15; Closed on Sundays and holidays); My Accademia ticket office (via Ricasoli n.105 / r, from Tuesday to Sunday 8.15-17.30; Closed on Monday); Uffizi ticket office (door n.2 and door n.3, from Tuesday to Sunday 8.15-18.05; Closed on Monday).
3. At the ticket offices of the Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello National Museum, Palazzo Pitti, when you buy the Firenzecard. In this case you can make the reservation directly at the ticket office at the time of purchase and collect the coupon to be shown, together with your Firenzecard, at the priority access doors of the museums.
NB The free reservation must also be made for children under 18 of the family unit of the Firenzecard holder.
Recent openings
Fortunately, in Florence there are not only the Uffizi, which for heaven's sake are a super museum to see (I go back every winter, in those few weeks of low season, to enjoy them in peace ...).
The city presents new entries: from Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, all restored and refurbished in an amazing way a few years ago, al Museum of the Innocents, which enhances the artistic history of the institution for children but also the human history of the foundlings who were abandoned.
And we have the Zeffirelli Foundation Museum, which opened a few months ago in the San Firenze complex and which is not yet part of the Firenze Card but is about to enter.
Finally I point out the new spaces of the Convent of Santa Maria Novella, stolen from the Carabinieri School which has moved elsewhere and which are truly fascinating.
Lifestyle
As for other services, not museums, there is another card that goes with this one and it is the Florence Card +.
It costs 7 euros per person, allows you to travel by public transport for three days and many businesses are partners: they give discounts or give small items. The Card + cannot be purchased alone, but only upon completion of the museum card.
News
A new card in the Firenzecard family: Firenzecard Restart with which it is possible to extend the validity of one's Firenzecard by a further 48 hours, provided that the latter has expired and that it has been purchased in the last 12 months. Firenzecard Restart is an exclusively digital card, usable only via Firenzecard app for iOS or Android smartphone / tablet. With Restart it will be possible to extend your vacation or return to Florence to visit the museums that have not yet been seen. Cost € 28 per person.
Firenzecard App: the free app that allows you to have on your smartphone a guide of all the museums of the Circuit, with practical information on the opening and closing times and on the events taking place at the museums of the Circuit. The App also allows you to have the card in digital format and therefore, directly on your smartphone.
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