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Uffizi and Accademia Galleries

Uffizi and Accademia Galleries

Florence · Italy

13 stops5.6 km1 h 7 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow a focused art walk through Florence’s museums, galleries, and immersive exhibitions, connecting the Uffizi and Accademia with other collections along the way. You will see works presented in historic interiors, contemporary gallery spaces, and experiential settings. The route is worth taking for the range of artistic approaches it brings together, from major museum collections to smaller galleries and specialized displays.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 13. The rest are in the app.

  1. Uffizi Galleries

    Uffizi Galleries

    A Medici office block that became one of the world’s earliest public museums.

  2. Cattedrale dell'Immagine

    Cattedrale dell'Immagine

    A museum in Florence, Italy.

  3. Aria Art Gallery

    Aria Art Gallery

    Aria Art Gallery is a gallery in Florence, Italy.

  4. 7 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Palatine Gallery

    Palatine Gallery

    Palatine Gallery, a gallery in Florence, Italy

  6. Palazzo Pitti

    Palazzo Pitti

    A banker’s unfinished palace became the Medici treasury and Florence’s royal museum.

  7. Tobian Art Gallery

    Tobian Art Gallery

    Tobian Art Gallery is a gallery in Florence, Italy.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 7 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

7 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 13 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.