Day Trips and Excursions :: THE PITTI PALACE AND BOBOLI GARDENS

THE PITTI PALACE AND BOBOLI GARDENS
A Guided Walking Tour in the Oltrarno

Join your expert Florence guide in the Piazza della Signoria and follow the path of the famous Vasari Corridor over the most famous of Florentine bridges, the Ponte Vecchio, past beautiful gold shops, to the magnificent Palazzo Pitti. En route see the newly-restored Deposizione, masterpiece of Pontormo, in the Church of Santa Felicita. At the Palazzo Pitti, you will visit the Galleria Palatina, with its magnificent collection of Renaissance art including Raphael’s Madonna of the Chair and Cleopatra by Tiziano, as well as the recently re-opened Savoy Apartments decorated in the 19th century as the royal residence of Italy’s first king, Vittorio Emmanuele. Then stroll through the splendid Boboli Gardens on a guided visit featuring the charming Bacchus!