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Museums in Florence - Reservations

We are going to Florence for 7 days the first week of October. We want to go to both the Academia and the Uffizi. How far in advance do we need to buy tickets and schedule our time reservations? I have done some research and so many sites come up for booking. What is the best to use? TIA

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Thank you! I was looking at those pages. Was leaning toward the 5 day pass with reservations for one day entry. We are experienced travellers and so excited to finally get to a piece of Italy.

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In addition to Christine's helpful links, this might be useful as well as it's sort of a direct line to ticketing for most of Florence's popular museums (except for the duomo's complex).

https://www.b-ticket.com/b-ticket/uffizi/default_eng.aspx.html

If not already aware, the Uffizi 5-day pass (Passepartout) doesn't cover the Accademia, just the Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, the National Archaeological Museum and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. The only one of that group requiring an advance, timed-entry reservation is the Uffizi, and it must be visited on the day/time slot for which the reservation was made when purchasing the pass.

San Marco and the Bargello are both excellent so do make time for them! This is the site you need for the Duomo's complex; 3 different passes are available depending on how much you wish to see, and only the dome requires an advance, timed-entry reservation. In buying the pass which includes it - and you'll choose your day/time slot at purchase - the 3-day validity of that pass begins on the day you made your dome reservation for.

https://duomo.firenze.it/en/home

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If purchasing the 5 day pass, can you go to the other sites before the Uffizi? The day I want for the Ufizzi isn’t available so I need to go later in my stay, but have a few days before to go to the other sites. Or is it like the Dome ticket where you have to go there first?

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This is what it says under the info for the 5-day pass on the Uffizi website (bolding of text is my own):

https://www.uffizi.it/en/pages/combined-ticket

"With the combined ticket, it is mandatory to choose the day and the hour you wish to enter the Uffizi, which is the first museum to visit.

Only after your visit at Uffizi, you can access to Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens, without any restriction or time limit and without any other form of reservation, as long as it is included in the 5-days validity of your ticket. The ticket is valid one day more in case one closing day is included in the 5 validity days, i.e. the weekly off-day, Monday, or December 25th or January 1st."

I will say that the wording above is a little different than what's stated on the B-ticket site (their official ticketing vendor) which sort of implies that you CAN visit the Boboli or Pitti first but I'd go with the Uffizi's version. You could also contact them for absolute verification?

https://www.uffizi.it/en/contacts

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@kathy that wording is what confused me.