VIP Private Tour Florence Cathedral Dome & Monuments | 3 hours

18 Reviews | Florence
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VIP Private Tour Florence Cathedral Dome & Monuments
2 Adults x $414.72
$829.44
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$829.44

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: German, Russian, Portuguese, English, Italian, French, Spanish
  • Tickets with skip-the-line reservation
  • Private expert art historian tour guide
  • Pick up and drop off
  • Tips

Overview

You will have the opportunity to visit all the different monuments and attractions in the heart of Piazza del Duomo with our expert guides of Florence. What makes us different? We accompany you step by step through all the monuments that make up the Duomo, without you having to find where the seats are and skip the line whenever possible with carefree. If you let yourself be guided, you will visit the Baptistery of San Giovanni, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Crypt of Santa Reparata, the Museum of the Opera del Duomo and the Dome of Brunelleschi. Inside the museum you will have the opportunity to see with your own eyes the Gates of Paradise Ghiberti. Then you will continue through the entrance of the Cathedral, including a visit to the Crypt of Santa Reparata. At the end you will climb the Brunelleschi Dome or the Giotto's Bell Tower, depending on the availability of the day. You will enjoy the incomparable view of the city of Florence.

Meeting points

Central Door of the Cathedral

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

  • Duomo - Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore

    Duomo di Firenze, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

    20 minutes

  • Museo Dell'opera Del Duomo

    Museo dell'Opera with Donatello and Michelangelo Statues and the original Gate of Paradise by Ghiberti

    1 hour

  • Battistero Di San Giovanni

    Battistero di Firenze with its outstanding Bizantine golden frescoes

    15 minutes

  • Cupola Del Brunelleschi

    You will get a reservation and can climb up the Dome on your own after the tour. No extra fee, included in the tour

    30 minutes

  • Campanile di Giotto

    You can climb the Bell Tower on your own after the tour, at your convenience. 72 hours time validity from the day of the tour

    30 minutes

Sample Menu

Additional Info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Free Cancellation

June 10100% refund
June 11No refund

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  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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4.7

18 reviews

Total review count and overall rating based on Viator and Tripadvisor reviews
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Showing 1-5 of 16 reviews with 5 stars

Great tour but opt in tour to museum and do cathedral afterwards.

Published on Sep, 2024

When they say your guide will meet you in front of the main door of the Cathadrel, it’s literally in the square in front of the entrance. It was windy and rainy the day of this tour. We showed up 20 minutes early to be sure we found the spot and also not to be late for our tour. With the square packed full of people it was hard for us to identify a tour guide. At our exact tour time, I left the area we found shelter in from the rain to see if I could locate our tour guide. It helps in the app if you put a picture of yourself. Our tour guide recognized me and I was able to call my hubby to come meet us from our shelter place. At first we didn’t understand why we didn’t get in the skip the line for touring the Cathedral and instead our tour guide explained about the history of the Cathedral. When done, she asked if we would prefer a tour of the museum as all the art from the Cathedral was in the museum. We said yes, well me with kind of I’m not so sure about this tour. Let me tell you that the tour was the highlight of our tours in Florence. Our tour guide was spot on for what to see. The art work and sculptures here were impressive. Our time guide was extremely knowledgeable and we enjoyed our tour with her. We had a scheduled skip the line Dome climb of 1:30pm. With an early breakfast and end of tour at Mūsēum at 12:30pm, we opted to end out tour early to grab lunch before climb. In hindsight, I wish I would have known our climb was 1:30 so we could have eaten a later breakfast or brought a snack with us to go hold us over. Our tour guide did give us a great recommendation for lunch option and we chose Mister Pizza. This was the best pizza we ate in our stay in Italy. It does state that the climb will be strenuous and that you should be in good health to be able to climb steep stairs in tight spaces and 463 stairs. I got to the last 63 stairs before the dome and wasn’t winded but could tell you that most people were and stopped once or twice to take a quick break. You gotta keep moving so your break is a few minutes. I chose to stop because the spiral staircase made me dizzy, yet you have to wait for the rest of your group to make it to this point before you can climb back down and yes the same set of stairs you went up. In hindsight I wished I would have pushed thru as my husband who was way behind me on the climb made it to the top and the rest of the stairs though steep with low ceilings wouldn’t have been worse for me then spiral staircases. Since I still had to go back down them, I’d say push though to make it to the top. I do have a fear of heights and just a little claustrophobic. The climb was hard for me because of that. If you are very claustrophobic, I’d say this would be extremely difficult to do. I rated this tour as a 5 because what the ticket/tour included, and specifically the guided tour of the museum, along with the skip the line Dome tour, and access to the cathedral (which we saw on our own after the tour and yes all the art is in the museum not the church, baptistery, bell tower and other monuments. Our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and very passionate and it showed.

Probably the best way to see the Cathedral and learn about its history and art.

Published on Oct, 2022

We enjoyed our personal tour with our knowledgeable guide, Giacomo. He was able to tell us about the Cathedral's history and the significance of its art in a passionate way. Sadly, the Baptistry was closed but Giacomo was able to give us an appreciation of its importance. A highlight was seeing the preserved doors of the Baptistry and climbing the hundreds of steps to the top of Bruneschelli's dome.

Another check off my bucket list

Published on Jun, 2022

Our guide, was amazing. So much energy, enthusiasm and knowledge. This was our 4th time in Florence. We had never been inside the Baptistery, it didn’t disappoint . It is really worth the extra money to do private tours. You get much more out of the experience.

Great tour of the Duomo

Published on Oct, 2021

Our guide was very knowledgeable about the Duomo complex and the original treasures in the museum. My brother was able to climb the dome with the guide on this tour. Highly recommend.

Visit of the Duomo, the cathedral and the museum (opera) in Florence

Published on Sep, 2021

Norie, our guide, was bij far, the best guide of all visits we made in Florence. She was perfect organized and her comments were brief and yet complete. Just interesting. She spoke dutch very well and was very friendly and occurring. The perfect guide.

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