Florence Walking Tour
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Florence, Italy
- 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Take in the top sights in Florence without busting your travel budget with this low-cost walking tour. Join your licensed guide and group of travelers for a stroll through the city’s Renaissance center and take in A-list sights like Ponte Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, and the Duomo as you learn about its history and architecture. At the end of the tour, you can tip your guide based on your budget.
- Get the lay of the land in Florence in just a few hours
- Skip the hassle of following a map and explore with a guide
- Cover the city’s most famous sights and learn about their history
- A low-cost option with just a voluntary tip at the end of the tour
What's Included
- Certified Guide
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Piazza dell'Unità Italiana, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy
The meeting point is in Piazza dell’Unità Italiana a small square very close to the main train station, the guide holds a pirate flag
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Florence
2 hours 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 4 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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The walking tour is great start to see the sites of the city and to get your bearings.
The wonderful guide shared his favourite places to eat, or have a cheeky wine from one the the wine doors. The tour is a must for sorts time visitors to Florence.
Fabulous tour. Guide was very knowledgeable and interacted very well with a large group. Would highly recommend
Armando was a wealth of knowledge! Very entertaining! Also, the length of the tour was perfecto! Thank you, Armando!
Excellent guide. We had an amazing time. Our guide was really enthusiastic and fun! I also appreciated how he always tried to keep us in shade, even though it was a sunny day
Great tour that covers the main sights of florence! Our tour guide was very informative and shared interesting facts about the city.
Our guide was great and the tour was well organized! We hit all the major spots and learned a lot about the city.
Armando was an excellent guide. Very informative about things to do and places to eat. Loved the ear piece and enjoyed his good humour. We spent an enjoyable 2. 5 hours with him. Would highly recommend.
Great to do your first day in town for history, and main spots to see. Two hours well spent. Organized. Earpiece was efficient.
Great introduction to Florence and its history. Was a good starting point for our visit to the city. Armando our guide was excellent and gave lots of tips for things to do and places to eat.
The tour was good and the guide was very good, but he ended the tour on the edge of Santa Croce Square, which was full of pickpockets and other tours ending simultaneously. After 37 years of traveling all over the world, my wallet was stolen, which has caused a nightmare. The tour could have ended in a safer place. The police told me Santa Croce is the worst place in terms of safety.
Armando was very knowledgeable! He was entertaining and gave lots of practical information! It was hot, though, and I was ready for the tour to be over when it was.
We booked this walking tour through Viator, drawn in by the low cost, good reviews, tip what you can model advertised in the listing. Unfortunately the experience didn’t match the description. Finding our guide was unnecessarily difficult. We were told to look for a pirate flag, but there was no flag in sight, and several other tour groups were meeting in the same spot, so we ended up going group to group asking if we were in the right place. A clearer signal, like a flag with the company name on it, would make this much easier for future guests.
Armando was warm and welcoming at first, and he encouraged questions and participation. But as the tour went on, he grew visibly frustrated when our group asked things he didn’t seem to know the answers to, eventually telling us he didn’t have time to address our questions despite having invited them. We spent a disproportionate amount of time at the Duomo, which felt like padding to kill time, and we stopped at his friend’s sandwich and wine shop where he encouraged purchases and then seemed impatient waiting on people to complete their purchases. The actual sightseeing could have easily been done in about an hour and a half without all the filler.
The most disappointing part was what happened with the tip. The listing is explicit that tipping is optional and should be based on your own budget, and we tipped in good faith based on that. At the end of the tour, Armando reacted with visible frustration at the amount and called us out about it in front of the entire group. This was unprofessional and put a bad taste in our mouth after what had already been a mediocre experience.
We’d also encourage Viator to rethink how this is set up. If there is an expected tip amount, that should be stated clearly on the website up front rather than left vague. Better yet, the tour should be priced higher so guides are paid fairly for their work and are not relying so heavily on tips from patrons to make a living. No guide should be pressuring guests or dictating what they are required to tip, and no guest should be made to feel judged for tipping in good faith based on the information provided at booking. Finally, we we’re also notified by one of our hotels in Italy that tipping wasn’t an expectation in Italy.
Very informative and fun tour. Great guide. Visited the most crucial sights regarding the history of Florence.
Armando was an excellent story teller and guide! We did this tour right when we arrived in Florence and it was a great introduction to the historical center of town and helped us get comfortable with where to find everything. Armando gave a lot of great advice that was very useful. Highly recommend as an intro tour.
Not informational. Can’t say we learned one interesting fact about Florence. Except where to buy an over priced espresso.
If this is the only tour you do in Florence, it would be enough (don't leave without visiting the Uffizi gallery, though). The tour was knowledgeable and totally worth it.
This tour gave us a great overview of what the see and a few suggestions on places to eat in Florence. Our tour guy was funny and very personable.
We had an excellent guide. I think his name was Alexander. He was extremely knowledgeable about the history of the city and all its monuments. We saw the very best of Florence. Would highly highly recommend.
Our guide was very informative and accommodating. He was friendly, fun, and gave a lot of local input on places to visit and great info on history of the city.
We had a wonderful historical walking tour of Florence. Our guide was knowledgeable, engaging, and made the city’s rich history come alive. The tour was a great mix of fascinating stories, historical context, and beautiful sights. We learned so much and thoroughly enjoyed our time exploring Florence.
Good way to get a feel for Florence. Try to start with tour as soon as possible after you arrive. Get some tips from a local.
Great guide Alejandro- good English, friendly & sense of humour. Knows his history & is proud to be Florentino.
Minimal price and then tip what you feel comfortable. Got to walk through many areas and very informative regarding all the history.
Our guide was great. I highly recommend this tour. He was knowledgeable, personable and funny. Great experience.
Armando was excellent. He explained the historical significance of various buildings and site. He gave us a lot of practical information such as where to buy tickets, what time to bisit museums etc and even us told us some of his favorite eateries.
My daughter and I had the best time on this half-day tour. It’s something every first-time visitor should experience—not just exploring the city on your own. It gave us a deeper appreciation of the history and made the whole trip even more memorable.
Our tour guide was absolutely the best—knowledgeable, friendly, and engaging. They made the entire experience enjoyable for both me and my daughter, and truly brought the history to life.
We especially loved learning about Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, and the fascinating story of the Medici family. From humble beginnings as bankers, they rose to power and helped shape the city by supporting incredible artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Hearing how they influenced art, politics, and culture made everything we saw feel more meaningful.
The tour was interesting but our guide lacked energy. She did appear knowledgeable though. We were late due to going to the wrong meeting point but she was accommodating.
Great tour, Armando is very knowledgeable and was fun on the tour. Highly recommend. Great insight into Firenze.
Our guide gave us a good sampling of things to do while in Florence. He sprinkled information with humor to keep our attention and pique our interst. We went back to several places he pointed out during the tour, making his time and efforts extremely worthwhile. I highly recommend taking this tour at the beginning of your trip, especially if you've never been to Florence before.
Alessandro was awesome. Passionate about the history and culture of Florence. Enjoyed his tour. Loved the pirate flag
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