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Florence Skyline from Brunelleschi's Dome
4.6
57 Ratings
Florence
Explore Florence’s religious center with a local guide, then climb Brunelleschi’s Dome for stunning skyline views. Fast-track entry and multi-site access included.
Duration:
1 hour, 45 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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Piazza del Duomo - Please reach Piazza San Giovanni outside Farmacia S. Antonino next to Caffé Scudieri 5 minutes prior to tour departure. Your guide will extensively describe the religious center of Florence from the exterior and inform you about opening times of all monuments and museum visitable with the ticket provided to you. Baptistery, Cathedral, Santa Reparata, socalled Crypt, Giotto’s Belltower and the splendid Museo dell’Opera del Duomo.
You’ll learn how to best use your time and avoid lines. Ticket is valid at least 48 hours after your dome climb!
After this educational walking tour of some 45 minutes, your guide will accompany you to the correct Cupola Climb admission entrance and stay with you until you’ll be admitted inside the Duomo and start climbing step 1, step 2…etc. etc. Enjoy!
- Cupola del Brunelleschi - Climb the highest and most fascinating building in Florence!
What's Included
- Admission ticket to Museo dell’Opera del Duomo on your own
- 50-minute walking tour with a professional local guide
- Earsets to hear your guide’s voice better during walking tour
- Admission ticket to visit Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral on your own through a fast-track lane
- Admission ticket to visit St. John’s Baptistery on your own
- Admission ticket for climbing Brunelleschi’s dome on your own at end of walking tour
- Admission ticket for climbing Giotto’s belltower on your own
What's Not Included
- Tips for the guide
- All not indicated in “Product inclusions”
Additional Information
Enjoy an indepth description of the entire religious center of Florence in the company of an experienced and selected local guide during a splendid 50-minute walking tour (outdoors) and then, right after the tour ends, climb on your own to the top of Brunelleschi’s dome to admire Florence skyline from its highest building.
At the end of the guided tour, your guide will accompany right to the fast-track entrance for your memorable dome climb experience and will give you the ticket with its reservation.
Save precious time with our excellent customer service.
Use your ticket for also visiting on your own the Baptistery (8.30am-7pm), the Cathedral’s Museum (8.30am-7pm), the Cathedral’s Crypt (10.15am-4pm) and climb also Giotto’s Belltower (8.15am-6.45pm). Opening and closing times may vary during religious holidays or for force majeure. Ticket is valid for 3 days including day of the tour.
Book your ticket for your dome climb as soon as you can, as dome climb spots can easily sell out!
- No large bags. No backpacks of any size admitted.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Minimum age is 7 years
- Not recommended for travelers with vertigo
Location
Piazza del Duomo
Piazza del Duomo,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.6
(57 Ratings)
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Sarah_t
Sep 13, 2024
Claudio is fantastic! - Claudio was a superb guide. Good balance of tour and self guiding. 55 min tour good time. Great skipping queue
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James_p
Sep 12, 2024
A great tour of Florence religious centre - Gabriel gave us a first class tour of the religious centre of Florence from the exterior; the Baptistery, the Campanile, and the Duomo. He explained the significance of the history and related the buildings to the life of Florentines even today with tales from his own upbringing. His commentary over the headsets eas very clear and his English is perfect.
He left us positioned in the skip the line queue of the dome climb and with recommendations of what to look for when we self-tour inside the buildings.
The climb inside the dome is pretty cramped but you can opt out at around half way. My partner has claustrophobia and very nearly did that bit preserving to the top was a worthwhile experience with great views over the city.
Your ticket includes entry to the cathedral, baptistery and the bell tower once each fur the next couple of days and with the advice Gabriel had goven us we made good use of those.
I highly recommend this tour to you.
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Mark_n
Sep 12, 2024
Great value for the money. - This truly was a "skip" the line tour for the climb to the Duomo, which was fantastic. However, the tour guide's 1-hour walk and discussion of the area before the tour was excellent as was is advice. Then the tickets were still good for 48 hours to tour all the other areas which we did take advantage of.
Our tour guide had a great dry sense of humor, was local and gave us a lot of excellent tips.
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Michelle_a
Sep 10, 2024
A great tour with spectacular views from the top of the dome - Really enjoyed the tour. The meeting point was easy to find and our tour guide was prompt. Sadly I cannot remember his name, but he was very knowledgeable and he spoke very clearly. He gave us time to digest what he had said before we moved on. The climb to the top of the dome was good fun and we both really enjoyed it - my husband doesn't like heights but he was fine with it.
A great trip and just the right amount of time from start to finish. Would recommend.
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Elise_b
Sep 10, 2024
Excellent, historic - Climbing to the top of the dome. Overlooking the city. Excellent view of the entire city and mountains.
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Denyse_h
Sep 10, 2024
Great tour - Amazing knowledgeable tour guide!
Great experience! Organized meeting place and getting us to the line of duomo climb was seamless!
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Jeannette_v
Sep 7, 2024
Love the tour and the dome experience. - I love this tour. Learning about Florence and their buildings history is very nice. The guidance gave a lot of information and the dome was a great experience, specially going in the top of it.
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Madalyn_c
Sep 14, 2024
Would recommend - We misunderstood the tour and thought we were going to tour the inside of the duomo as a group however, the group tour is just the outside area of the duomo. Still a great tour and let us to climb the dome independently. They did reschedule our time but we were still able to make it. Would recommend!
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Akira_k
Sep 8, 2024
Reserve visit to Brunelleschi's Dome EARLY - The Florence Duomo and especially Brunelleschi's Dome requires a time-specific reservation. Time slots sold by the Cathedral? are SOLD-OUT early, and hence I needed to join this tour at double the cost, or not visit it at all. The Tour was OK, as it came with an interesting guided lecture of Florence Dome done from outside, but my primary interest was to climb to the top of Brunelleschi's Dome.
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Jose_c
Sep 23, 2024
Not the best - This “tour” consists of walking around the cathedral for 1 hour where you will hear the functioning hours of the battistero, the cathedral, the bell tower and the museum. You will hear an explanation of how the luggage/backpack storage are works. The guide will not come inside the cathedral or the dome or the battistero to go into detail. You are on your own there. The tour’s spiel could have easily be done in 15-20 min. My advise would be to check a different tour.
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