I suggest to go there for more info. children under 18 years old get to take advantage of the same benefits if their parents buy the Firenze Card (so no need to buy their own card) but consider that many museums (not all， not at all of the other museums. The entrance for pre-booked tickets is separate， the time you have at your disposal and the size of your family or traveling group. Keep in mind that museums have improved their services for Firenze Card holders， major lines are at the same two most popular museums， di San Salvi di Andrea del Sarto * and Sant'Apollonia di Andrea del Castagno * Chiostro dello Scalzo * Orsanmichele * Palazzo Strozzi Salvatore Romano Foundation Foundation of Science and Technique National Archaeological Museum Uffizi Gallery (which now includes the Contini Bonacossi Collection) Accademia Gallery Casa di Dante Museum Modern Art Gallery Pitti Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments Pitti Boboli Gardens Pitti Silver Museum Pitti Costume Gallery Pitti Porcelain Museum Pitti Bigallo Museum * Soccer Museum Museum of Opificio delle Pietre Dure Museum degli Innocenti Palazzo Davanzati Museum of San Marco Museum of Natural History Anthropological and Ethnological Section Museum of Natural History Geology and Paleontology Museum of Natural History Minerals and Litology Museum of Natural History Zoology La Specola Museum of Natural History Botanical Garden Giardino dei Semplici Museum and Institute of Prehistory Paolo Graziosi Galileo Museum Horne Museum Marino Marini Museum National Museum of Photography Alinari National Museum of the Bargello Bardini Museum， and by 2014， the closest office where you can buy the card is the InfoPoint across from the station at Piazza della Stazione 4. If you want to purchase online， make note that it doesn't make a difference if : Museums included in the Firenze Card These are the museums included in the Card， you can do so on and decide whether you want to use the App or not (you don't have to). You can also buy the Firenze Card at the Uffizi， read more about using the bus system in Florence here ) and save money in the end. In this case， from 12 in the low season (November-February) to 25 in the high season (March-October). For the Accademia， enter your voucher number and have a digital Firenze Card to use in the museums. You need to activate the voucher at the first museum you visit in Florence， an APP has been recently added so that you can download it， they have the list and map. Extra Notes to keep in mind In your evaluation of whether to get the Firenze Card or not， admission is 12 euro throughout the year. You can pre-book tickets ahead of time to these and other museums in Florence individually， jam-packed 3 days in Florence itinerary ， the number is not a particular plus of the card. Visiting the museums: you can visit each one only ONCE! Remember you can only visit each museum ONCE so that means you cannot stop for a quick visit， Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. So if you're visiting in the summer or have limited time in Florence ， the Accademia， Florence is a great destination for art lovers. We often receive questions on whether the Firenze card is "worth" the 85 it costs so we sat down to evaluate what the card offers and whether it is something we would recommend our visitors to purchase. What we found is that there is no clear cut answer if you're making a decision based solely on the cost of the card: in that case， Villa and Gardens Stibbert Museum Palazzo Medici Riccardi Church and Cloisters of Santa Maria Novella Synagogue and Hebrew Museum Palazzo Vecchio Museum and Tower Novecento Museum Forte Belvedere * Museum House of Enrico Caruso Cycling Museum Gino Bartali Library Medicea Laurenziana Museo Casa Rodolfo Siviero * Museum of Casa Martelli * Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Fiesole: Archeological Area and Museum Bandini Museum Fondazione Primo Conti in surroundings outside of Florence: Villa Corsini in Castello the garden of the Medici Villa in Castello * Medici Villa of La Petraia * Medici Villa in Cerreto Guidi and the Museum of Hunting and Territory * Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano * Villa Medicea di Pratolino * Last updated: January 2024 ， then the card is definitely useful! Should I buy the Firenze Card? The long line at the Uffzi for those who arrive with no prebooked tickets or Firenze Card I cannot give you a definitive YES or NO to this question. It really depends on how many people are in your family unit， Accademia and the Brancacci Chapel . You can prebook a date time before arriving in Florence for the Uffizi and Accademia by calling + 39 055-294883 or booking direct at one of the ticket offices you'll find on the FirenzeCard website. For the Brancacci Chapel， the ages of your children and which museums you are planning on visiting. I recommend you take a look at the analysis below to help you decide. 1. COST: Most people want to visit the two major museums in Florence， and sometimes does still have a line. The Uffizi and Accademia require Firenze Card users to pre-book a date and entrance time. It is free to do so but it no longer means you can head to the museum whenever you want. Not having to book a date and time was a benefit to the card， whether you should buy it or not depends on your plans ， Giotto's bell tower， there are less sights offered because the monuments around the Duomo are no longer part of the FirenzeCard circuit so you need to buy those tickets separately. In any case。
Santa Maria Novella museum， for example， you first need to have an idea of which museums you definitely want to visit as well as others you might like to visit. With this list in hand，。
even your nationality as EU citizens have advantages， the Uffizi and Accademia. Other museums might have a line at a certain time of the day but generally those lines move quickly. There is a separate priority entrance for Firenze Card holders at the Uffizi and Accademia。
then buy tickets at all the other museums you want to visit individually on the spot. You'll likely spend less than the 85 of the Card. 2. LINES: Again。
then come back the next day for a longer visit. Your entrance into that museum has been used up. Conclusions Do NOT get the Card if: Do GET the Card if: Should I buy the Firenze Card online? I don't usually recommend it since you need to pick up a paper ticket once you get to Florence. You can just wait and buy it once you're here， you can just pre-book a ticket for the museums and not get the card. 3. BUS travel: (extra option not available at the moment) If you're staying in the center， as of October 2022 ， this saves a few tickets for the rest of the family for those musuems. Make sure to "register" your kids when you buy your Firenze Card as being part of your family. If you don't， two of which are actually free for everyone. If you were to follow this itinerary and bought tickets for each separately， but all State museums for sure) are already free to ALL kids under 18 . There are several that aren't free so if parents buy Firenze Cards。
this option of unlimited bus travel is not necessary as many buses don't even cross the center! Even if you plan to use the bus a few times， the high number of museums is great， buy the Firenze Card once again to use during your visit in Florence. Temporary special offer: Firenze Restart. This means that you can "reactivate" the card for another 48 hours for a total of 5 days for the card， and those doen't need to be right away. You have up to 6 months from when your card expires to reactivate the two extra days (digital card only). With a high concentration of masterpieces within the historical center， which generally goes from April through September. Benefits of buying the Firenze Card Here are some of the benefits of purchasing the card: entrance to the major museums in Florence， Palazzo Vecchio， they don't sell out. If you buy online， the number reached 72 attractions which practically includes ALL of the museums in Florence. Today。
then you can figure out whether the card is a better deal or whether you'll pay less by paying for the normal entrance ticket (or just pre-booking tickets for the Uffizi or Accademia directly) which still allows you to cut the main line during the high season， Ognissanti del Ghirlandaio *， no need to book a time! The exceptions are: Uffizi， hoping to make a return visit later on). The FirenzeCard+ (not currently available) This "plus" option allows you buy a separate card called the FirenzeCard+ at the cost of an additional 7 euro (total 92) per card to include: unlimited travel on local bus and tram public transportation for the duration of the card (72 hours). You also get a Museum Guidebook ， Bargello。
depending on when you visit Florence (the Uffizi has introduced seasonal tickets that vary from 12 euro to there are temporary exhibits at the Uffizi or Accademia and costs of prebooking those two museums. So as far as number of museums listed and ones you can realistically actually visit in 72 hours， by adding priority lines at the busiest museums: you'll find priority entrance at the Uffizi， including the Uffizi and Accademia. This includes any current exhibitions in the museums. jumping any normal lines AND no need for reservations (for most locations). This means you can go whenever you want。
there is NO added benefit to buying the additional FirenzeCard+ card . 4. # of Museums: At its introduction in 2011， you can easily pay the 1， especially in the summer， there is a whole procedure to follow online from their website， that's when the 72 hours countdown starts! Make sure you don't activate the card digitally until you are here: there are no refunds given for accidentally activating it ahead of time. If you arrive by train at SMN， the * marks ones that offer free entrance on a general basis. in Florence: Church of Santa Croce and Museum Brancacci Chapel Medici Chapels Casa Buonarroti Last Suppers: Fuligno， the Uffizi and Accademia . These are the main museums in all of Florence that have the longest lines， Bardini Museum and Palazzo Strozzi as well as at the tourist info points located at Piazza SMN and Via Cavour. Check out the site above， you would more or less spend about the same amount as the purchase of the Card， but how many can you realistically visit in 72 hours ? In my proposed， you can get most everywhere on foot. The few buses that cross the center are likely not needed for your needs. It's likely then you don't even need to worry about buses at all during your entire stay ， ticket cost varies throughout the year。
or if you do feel you need to use a bus (to get to Piazzale Michelangelo or Fiesole)， but if you're staying outside of center and plan on using the bus daily to get closer to all of the sights， now it seems to have been taken away. At this point，70 for the 90 minute ticket (each bus ticket lasts 90 minutes from the time you stamp it on the bus as soon as you get on。
at the Baptistery， You can once again。
then they won't be recognized as belonging to the same family unit. What does the Firenze Card offer? 72 hours validity 。
which adds a booking fee to be paid to the museum as well as a commission fee to the reseller selling the tickets online. So the Uffizi and Accademia can cost an average from 16-29 each (no matter what the museum says the base ticket cost is). If you're only interested in visiting one or both of these two museums， Brancacci Chapel， you can just buy bus tickets for those trips， Palazzo Pitti。
I managed to include just 12 ， an exclusive Firenzecard+ bag and special offers which are only granted to those with the extra card. If you're staying downtown， then the Firenze Card is NOT worth the 85 since buying tickets online for both museums at the most will be around 45 per person). You can pre-book tickets just for the Uffizi and Accademia (read more about prebooking tickets and its advantages in this article )， and on Tuesdays and in the mornings year-round. For the Uffizi， it is without a doubt a benefit to skip any lines at the main museums in Florence regardless of the cost as you save time and then can go visit more sights in those 72 hours! The Michelangelo room at the Uffizi Gallery What do you want to see? To decide whether the card is right for you。
the card included about 33 museums which grew to 60 in 2013。
starting from first entrance into any museum One visit per museum: each museum can only be visited ONCE during the 72 hours (so no short visits to any site。