Day 7 of 8 · Friday, August 21

Uffizi, Santa Croce & a garden farewell

The greatest gallery at opening, your parish of geniuses, a hillside goodbye.

Home by 10:00 PM ~6 km + garden paths Feet only ~€80 tickets + farewell dinner €120-180

The plan

6 stops

8:15

Uffizi at opening

8 min from your door: Giotto → Botticelli → Leonardo → Michelangelo → Raphael → Caravaggio, then coffee on the terrace.

11:45

Santa Croce

Michelangelo's and Galileo's facing tombs, Dante's empty cenotaph, Giotto's Bardi Chapel, the Pazzi Chapel, the leather school.

1:30

Lunch on the piazza

last siesta; stage the suitcases.

4:30

Boboli Gardens (and optionally the Pitti's Palatine

Gallery): cypress avenues, the grotto, the skyline from the Neptune ridge.

7:45

Farewell Tuscan dinner at Cammillo (Borgo San Jacopo)

Tonight is the Brunello.

9:45

Last walk: Ponte Vecchio lit

north bank home. Home by 10.

Uffizi 8:15 AM (BOOK NOW; moved from Monday)

Farewell dinner: Trattoria Cammillo (book by Wed)

Trattoria Cammillo (book by Wednesday)