How many days do you need in Florence?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Florence.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Florence · 3 days Italy
Best time: April to early June and September to October.
The Duomo and the centreDay 1
📍8:30 AMBrunelleschi's dome
The largest masonry dome ever built, raised without centring in the 1420s by a goldsmith who would not explain how. 463 steps between the two shells; book a timed slot.
🚶 ~2 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 350 ft
📍11:30 AMBaptistery and the Gates of Paradise
The oldest building on the square, with gilded bronze doors Michelangelo named. The panels outside are copies; the originals are in the cathedral museum.
🚶 ~7 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.3 mi
📍4:00 PMPalazzo Vecchio
The fortress town hall with the Hall of the Five Hundred, and a tower climb over the terracotta roofs.
Uffizi and the OltrarnoDay 2
🖼️9:00 AMUffizi Gallery
Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, plus Leonardo and Caravaggio, in the old Medici offices. Pick two corridors rather than all of it.
🚶 ~3 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.1 mi
⛴️1:30 PMPonte Vecchio and across the river
The only bridge the retreating Germans left standing in 1944, still lined with goldsmiths as it has been since the 1590s.
🚶 ~12 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.5 mi
⛪3:30 PMBrancacci Chapel
Masaccio's frescoes of 1425, where perspective and real human weight arrive in Western painting. Small, ticketed, and the most important room in the city.
David and the hillDay 3
🖼️9:00 AMGalleria dell'Accademia
Michelangelo's David, carved at twenty-six from a block two sculptors had already abandoned. The unfinished Prisoners in the corridor are the sleeper.
🚶 ~16 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.6 mi
📍12:30 PMSanta Croce
The Franciscan church holding the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo, and Machiavelli, with Giotto frescoes in the chapels.
🚶 ~11 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.4 mi
📍6:00 PMPiazzale Michelangelo and San Miniato
The classic sunset view over the city, then twenty minutes further up to a Romanesque church where monks sing vespers.
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