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See the Uffizi at your own pace, with reserved entry and a private guide on hand.
A self-paced private visit to the Uffizi Galleries, with your guide giving as much or as little context as you like and reserved-entry tickets included.
See the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries with a private guide who personalizes the visit to what interests you most — wander at your own pace with reserved-entry tickets included at a time of your choosing.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet directly at the Uffizi Gallery entrance.
Wander the galleries at your own speed rather than a fixed group itinerary.
Timed-entry tickets are booked in advance for you.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A self-paced private visit to the Uffizi Galleries, with your guide giving as much or as little context as you like and reserved-entry tickets included. See the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries with a private guide who personalizes the visit to what interests you most — wander at your own pace with reserved-entry tickets included at a time of your choosing.
Long before timed tickets existed, the Uffizi already restricted who could wander its most famous room at their own pace. The octagonal Tribuna, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti in the early 1580s for Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici, was built purely to display his family's most prized treasures — its drum is covered in mother-of-pearl set against blue, and its dome holds roughly 6,000 shells arranged against a crimson ground. By the 1770s it had become the single room every Grand Tour visitor to Florence most wanted to see.
The reason any of this survived to be seen today, let alone at a self-directed pace, traces to one document: in 1737 the last Medici descendant, Anna Maria Luisa, signed a 'Family Pact' leaving the entire Medici art collection to the city of Florence on the explicit condition that none of it ever be removed — a nearly 300-year-old legal safeguard that still protects what's on the walls around you.
The gallery itself wasn't formally recognized as a public museum until 1865, even though privileged visitors had already been informally touring parts of it since the 16th century — which makes a modern self-paced, reserved-entry visit less a break from tradition than a continuation of exactly how the space was meant to be experienced from the start, just open to considerably more people now.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
