Tours and Tickets to Experience Bardini Garden (Giardino Bardini)

There are plenty of ways to experience the Bardini Gardens. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Pitti Palace, Boboli and Bardini gardens Tour with a local Guide

• Uffizi Combined Ticket: UFFIZI, PITTI, BOBOLI & digital audioguide

• Florence Gardens: the Boboli and the Bardini Gardens Private Tour

• Historic Florence: Exclusive Private Tour with a Local Expert

• Gardens of Florence Walking Tour

Tickets to the Bardini Gardens cost €10 for adults, and include access to Villa Bardini and the neighboring Boboli Gardens. Visitors under 18 get in for free, and the gardens offer free admission every first Sunday of the month. Stroll along the grounds on your own or on a private Florence gardens tour—prices generally start at US$200.

The Bardini Gardens are open every day—except for the first and last Monday of every month—from 10am until the late afternoon, with closing times varying throughout the year. Ticket sales stop an hour before closing, which is about the amount of time it takes to visit the gardens at a leisurely pace.

The Bardini Gardens are especially scenic—and crowded—when their famous wisteria pergola blooms in the spring. Check the website for live updates on the wisteria, usually at its peak in April and May. Though July and August can be uncomfortably hot in Florence, these months are a unique time to visit the gardens, which show outdoor movies on select summer evenings.

The Bardini Gardens are attached to Villa Bardini, a 17th-century villa and museum in Florence’s Oltrarno neighborhood, about a 10-minute walk uphill from the Ponte Vecchio. They’re connected to the larger Boboli Gardens by Via del Forte di San Giorgio; simply follow the signs directing you between the gardens.

Yes, the Bardini Gardens are partially accessible for travelers using wheelchairs. There’s a ramp entrance just south of the main entrance, as well as accessible restrooms inside Villa Bardini. The gardens themselves are set on a hill and may be hard to navigate with a wheelchair, though there are some flat pathways with stunning views of greenery and the city.