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Pitti Palace and Palatine Gallery Tickets
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Enjoy a visit to the Palatine Gallery without stress. Make your on-line reservation in advance to get in, avoiding the long lines at the entrance.

The ticket for the Palatine Gallery includes also the entrance to the Palatine Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Museum of Costume and Fashion .

Openings: Open Tuesday to Sunday 1,30am – 18,50pm- On Saturdays and holidays it will be necessary to make the reservation at least one day in advance.

Closed: Mondays, New Year’s Day, May 1st, Christmas Day

Notes: The Royal and Imperial Apartments will remain closed for the time being because it is not possible to guarantee compliance with the rules on social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 emergency.

The Museum of Costume and Fashion remains closed for refurbishment works.

Address: Piazza de Pitti, 1, Florence.

REDUCED TICKETS

Reduced prices and free tickets.

Reduced tickets: for European Union citizens aged between 18 and 25 years, Teachers of Public Institutions in the EU (Vatican City, Monaco , Switzerland, Luxembourg , Republic of San Marino, Lichtenstein).

Free tickets: for non EU citizens under 18, EU citizens under 18. You will be asked to show your ID card at the entrance for reduced and free tickets.

DETAILED INFORMATION

Audioguides: Available in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

Disabled persons: The Palatina Gallery and the Royal Apartments are disable access Friendly

Cloakroom: Umbrellas, large bags and backpacks are to be left here by visitors

Bookshop:Two museum shops available, at the entrance and in the countryard, where you can buy guide books in various languages and art gadgets

Café: A café is available in the courtyard of the ground floor

NOTES

Requested time may not be available, the museum will then confirm the closest available time to the requested one on the same date.

Florence Museum Tickets is not responsible for changes or cancellations in museum programs.

A commission charge is added to the price of the ticket for the booking. An additional fee will be added for any further booking change or modification.

The Pitti Palace was purchased in 1550 and chosen by Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife Eleanor of Toledo as the new grand ducal residence. It was also the royal palace of other two dynasties: the House of Lorraine-Habsburg (which succeeded the Medici from 1737) and the Kings of Italy of the House of Savoy, who inhabited it from 1865.

Today the Palace is divided into four museums: on the ground floor, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, on the first floor the Palatine Gallery and the Royal and Imperial Apartments, fourteen magnificent rooms where the Medici and Lorraine grand-ducal families used to live and the Modern Art Gallery and the Museum of Costume and Fashion on the second floor.

The Palatine Gallery and Royal and Imperial Apartments they have within them an impressive selection of masterpieces. which include important collection, including which includes the largest concentration of paintings by Raphael in the world as well as invaluable works by Titian,, Caravaggio, Rubens, Pietro da Cortona and other Italian and European masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. There are many rooms and galleries full of marvellous paintings and the paintings in their lavish frames entirely cover the walls of the rooms which are enriched by sculptures, vases and tables with semi-precious stone. In the “Planet Rooms ”, there are the sensational series of frescoes by Pietro da Cortona for Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de’ Medici and every work of art is enhanced by the setting and the furnishings.

Masterpieces

The Museum features a significant collection of masterpieces by Raffaello, and many Venetian works by Tiziano. It also includes the main Italian and European artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo and Ribera.

Greatest works

Raphael, Madonna of the Grand Duke, 1504

Raphael, Portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi, 1506

Raphael, Portrait of a lady called "The Pregnant", 1505

Raphael, Madonna of the Canopy, 1507

Raphael, Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami, 1509

Raphael, Portrait of a lady called "The Veiled", 1516

Raphael, Madonna of the “Impannata”, 1513

Raphael, Madonna of the Chair, 1514

Giorgione, The Three ages of man, 1500

Titian, Concert, 1506

Titian, Portrait of Tommaso Mosti, 1520

Titian, Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici, 1532

Titian, Magdalene, 1533

Titian, Portrait of a lady called "The Beauty", 1536

Titian, Portrait of a gentleman with greyish eyes, 1550

Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1548

Caravaggio, Sleeping Cupid, 1608

Caravaggio, Portrait of a Knight of Malta, 1608

Artemisia Gentileschi, Magdalene, 1617

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith, 1612

Rubens, The Four philosopher, 1611

Rubens, The Three Graces, 1620

Enjoy a visit to the Palatine Gallery without stress. Make your on-line reservation in advance to get in, avoiding the long lines at the entrance.

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