Day 3 of 7 · Monday, August 17

Florence on foot, then Galileo

Your guided walking tour, then the museum built for you two.

Home by 9:00 PM ~8 km Feet only ~€45 tickets + €150-210 food/wine

Heads up

The Uffizi and Accademia are CLOSED today (Mondays). That's why the Uffizi moved to Friday and this afternoon is Museo Galileo + Palazzo Vecchio, both open.

The plan

8 stops

8:00

Breakfast standing at the bar

cappuccino + cornetto at Ditta Artigianale, Via de' Neri.

9:00

Guided walking tour

4 hours (arranged). Likely arc: Duomo, Orsanmichele, Signoria, Ponte Vecchio.

Full story →

1:15

Lunch: All'Antico Vinaio schiacciata eaten by the river

or a table at Trattoria Anita.

2:30

Apartment siesta

August strategy, not laziness.

3:30

Museo Galileo

his telescopes, the Jupiter lens, the armillary sphere, the finger.

Full story →

5:30

Palazzo Vecchio

the Salone dei Cinquecento and Machiavelli's office; open late.

Full story →

7:00

Cross Ponte Vecchio into the Oltrarno

Le Volpi e l'Uva, then Il Santino; finish on Piazza Santo Spirito.

8:45

Walk the south bank to Ponte alle Grazie for the

night view of your own quarter, then home.

Reservations

Guided Florence walking tour, 4 h, morning (arranged)

Dinner call

Oltrarno wine-bar crawl (grazing counts as dinner)