Tickets in Florence

Florence packs the Renaissance into a few square kilometres, and rations access with time slots. If you want to see the Uffizi, Michelangelo's David or the Duomo's dome, you either book ahead or queue for hours in season. This overview brings together the app's ticket guides, official booking channels, 2026 prices, and when a museum pass is worth the outlay for visitors flying or travelling in from abroad.

2026 prices at a glance

A few rules that cut across all of these, the reduced ticket at the state museums costs €2 (18- to 25-year-olds from the EU and a handful of other countries including Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, with ID), and the €4 booking fee also applies to reduced and free entries. The cathedral's main nave is free. And when you're planning your week, watch out for Mondays, the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Pitti museums are closed, while Palazzo Vecchio opens daily.

Booking time slots the right way

The guide Booking tickets & wait times walks through the system venue by venue, where the official shops are, how the allocations are released on a rolling basis roughly two months ahead, and how much lead time to plan for: around two months for the Accademia, at least one month for the Uffizi. One thing worth knowing before you buy - Uffizi tickets are personalised, non-transferable and non-refundable, so book under the name of whoever will actually be showing ID at the door.

The most important special case is the cathedral. The dome, bell tower, baptistery, cathedral museum and Santa Reparata are only sold as a bundle through the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore's Brunelleschi Pass (€30, valid three calendar days). Only the dome climb requires a fixed time slot, the booked date is binding, the reservation can't be changed or cancelled, and photo ID has been compulsory since March 2025. Dome slots are routinely the first to sell out, and no amount of planning gets you around the 463 steps, there's no lift.

Pass or single tickets?

The Firenze Card (€85, 72 hours, over 60 museums) is the city's big bundled offer. Two quirks decide whether it's worth it for your trip, the clock only starts once you enter your first museum, not at purchase, and it doesn't replace booking: for the Uffizi, the Accademia and Palazzo Vecchio you still need a time slot even with the card. Public transport isn't included, which matters if you're staying outside the historic centre. Anyone who doesn't get through the full 72 hours can extend an expired card by 48 hours for €28 via Firenzecard Restart. Whether the pass pays off for your itinerary, as a rule of thumb, from around four to five major venues, is worked out in the guide Is the Firenze Card worth it?. The same principle applies here as everywhere, book only through official shops, and be wary of third-party "skip the line" promises. Nobody skips the security check.