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Private Tour: Walking with Dante in his Florence!

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Duration: 2 hours

Departs: Florence, Florence

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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Overview

A path in Dante's footsteps to discover the city where he lived, his neighborhood and the places of his education, his passions, his works and the uses and customs of the medieval city

What's Included

Earphones

Local professional private Guide at your side

What's Not Included

Everything not mentioned as Included

Gratuities

Hotel pick up and drop off

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 5
ADULT: Age: 6 - 99

Additional Info

Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

Meet your private guide and admire the Basilica Santa Maria Novella where Dante attended the famous Studium, one of the most important centers in Europe for the teaching of philosophy and theology

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Santa Maria Maggiore

In the chapel of the church, there is the tomb of Brunetto Latini the illustrious mentor of Dante, who had taught him how "... man is eternal". Latini was also one of the most important Florentine political figures and as such was a model for the poet interested in the political life of his city.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Battistero di San Giovanni

The tour proceeds with the exterior visit of the Baptistery where Dante was baptized. This Monument was mentioned several times in the "Divine Comedy" and the ceiling was decorated by a splendid thirteenth-century mosaic with a vision of Heaven and Hell that were certainly a source of inspiration for a series of visions described in the Divine Comedy.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Crypt of Santa Reparata

At the time of Dante, the Cathedral looked completely different: The church was much smaller and was called the Cathedral of Santa Reparata. The crypt is the archaeological area of the previous Cathedral of Santa Reparata and this is the church actually frequented by Dante and his contemporaries.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Duomo - Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore

Your guide will show you where Dante wrote poetry on summer evenings as he watched the construction of the new Cathedral of Florence.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

The Donati were one of the oldest and most important families in Florence. To this family belonged Gemma, Dante's wife. They were at the head of the movement of the Black Guelphs against the White Guelphs

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Museo Casa di Dante

The guide will show you the Casa di Dante or Casa Museo Dante : located in the heart of medieval Florence, it's a 20th century building located on the site - as the documents suggest - of a very likely location of the Alighieri family home, the birthplace of one of the most beloved poets, Dante Alighieri.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Chiesa di Santa Margherita dei Cerchi

The tour will proceede with the visit of the Church of Dante" , here he met Beatrice his big love and muse and where you can leave love letters in a special basket!!!

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Museo Nazionale del Bargello

The oldest public palace in the city has a very long history: built in 1250 as the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, it was then Palazzo del Podestà, a prison and finally a museum. Today, it collects one of the most extraordinary collections of Italian sculpture (works by Donatello, Michelangelo, Verrocchio, Cellini). Among the frescoes in the Cappella della Maddalena, referable to the Giotto area, the most ancient portrait of Dante is recognized

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Piazza della Signoria

Piazza della Signoria is mentioned by the poet as the place where the ancient Ghibelline houses of the Uberti were, demolished after the triumph of the Guelph faction

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Palazzo Vecchio

Although Dante is not buried in Florence, the city has one of the poet's death masks that can be seen here. It symbolizes both Dante's political contribution to the city of Florence and his fundamental role in the development of Italian literature and culture. This is the mask mentioned in Dan Brown's "Inferno".

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Gallerie Degli Uffizi

Here you can admire the statue of Dante Alighieri

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Ponte Vecchio

The tour will end here

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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