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Tickets for attractions in Pisa/Florence/Venice

Posted by (Harrisburg, PA, USA) on

I will be in Florence, Pisa and Venice during the last week of October.

For Florence, are tickets in advance needed for the Baptistry and Duomo, Santa Croce? From my reading of other entries, the Uffizi and Accademia require tickets. How long does it take to go through Uffizi and Accademia?

In Pisa, are tickets in advance needed to go up the Leaning Tower?

In Venice, should you reserve a gondola ride in lieu of paying a steeper price without reserving a gondola ride? What is the most economical way?

Thanks

Tony
PA

Posted by
636 posts

Florence: Tickets are only needed for the Uffizi and Accademia. I'm not sure if you can even get tickets for the others you mentioned (but, maybe you can). As for times for the sights, I would allow 1 hour for the Accademia and 2 for the Uffizi. If you really like to linger, allow 1.5 hours for the Accademia and 3 hours for the Uffizi.

Pisa: For the Leaning Tower, advance tickets are not required, but they're certainly recommended, if you want to avoid a line and be guaranteed entry.

Venice: As far as I know, you can't reserve a gondola in advance.

I hope that helps.

Posted by
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Tickets for the Pisa Bell tower are on sale across the green. You buy tickets for a specific time slot and groups of 20 or 30 have 30 minute slots. You can also get tickets for the Baptistry and Duomo.

The most economical gondola ride is the 2 euro ride on a gondola taxi across the grand canal. Next most is a group ticket that you can get at San Zaccaria if that is your preference. I negotiated a pretty decent fare (60 euro) about 8 pm one evening when it had rained that day instead of the usual 100 euro, but it was luck.

Posted by
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Here's the official website for advance museum tickets in Florence. http://www.b-ticket.com/b-ticket/Uffizi/default.aspx. You are correct that the Uffizi and Academia require tickets but there are a few more that do as well. You can see them on this site. For the Duomo and Baptistery, you don't. However, there are long lines. If you want to climb the Duomo tower, there's a side entrance that opens at 8:30am. Aside from mass, I think the Duomo opens for tourists at 10:00am.

BTW, one of the best museums that we visited was the Duomo museum which is across the street on the left rear of the Duomo. Just great. No lines.

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