The tour is one of Florence’s most beautiful and important museums: the Bargello Palace, renowned all around Europe for its incredible works of sculpture. It displays many important sculptures by Michelangelo and Donatello.
The guide will start off with a little history about the Bargello Museum, which used to be
the headquarters of the Capitano Del Popolo and later of the Podesta (the lord of the
city). They will tell you how the palace became the residence of the head of the police
and how it was later used as a prison.
The guide will escort you through the museum for you to enjoy the very important works
of art kept in Bargello. The ground floor rooms display the Tuscan works of the 16th
Century. Your guide will particularly focus on four masterpieces by Michelangelo. Along
with the local and expert guide you will then discover works by Bartolomeo Ammannati,
Benvenuto Cellini, Giambologna, and many other treasures. You will discover precious
ivories and bronzes that include several Roman and Byzantine examples.
Then, you will immerse yourself in the early Renaissance, as your guide will explain the
masterpieces made by Donatello and Verrocchio. Later, the guide will escort you to the
second floor, which is solely dedicated to the glazed terracotta done by Andrea and
Giovanni Della Robbia. The tour takes about two hours - the perfect amount of time to
see this famous art collection, without feeling overwhelmed. You can also return to
anything you might want to see again after the tour ends.
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