Pitti Palace
The vast Medici/Lorraine residence across the river, with the Palatine Gallery's wall-to-wall old masters.
The call
Worth it if you are traveling as a couple and you are traveling solo.
Why
- 01
The Palatine Gallery is the opposite experience to the Uffizi, and that's the whole point.
Our read - 02
Instead of marched chronological corridors, the Raphaels and Titians are hung salon-style, frame-to-frame and stacked to the ceiling in the Medici's own gilded apartments — you stand in a red-and-gold royal room with a dozen masterpieces crowding one wall, the way the dukes actually lived with them.
Our read
Is it a fit?
Go if
You are traveling as a couple
As a couple, Pitti Palace is an easy yes.
You are traveling solo
Solo, Pitti Palace is an easy yes.
History and culture matter to you
Pitti Palace rewards a trip built around history & culture.
You care about the visual experience
Pitti Palace rewards a trip built around beauty & photography.
Think twice if
You are traveling with kids
With kids, skip Pitti Palace.
You are watching the budget
Pitti Palace can strain a tight budget. Go only when it is a priority.
You only have one day
Keep Pitti Palace only when it outranks a half-day elsewhere.
Plan it well
- Ticket
- A single €16 ticket (or €20 online incl. €4 fee) covers the Palatine Gallery, Royal Apartments, Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Gallery of Modern Art and Museum of Costume and Fashion.uffizi.it
- Timing
- Open morning to afternoon, closed Mondays; go early to beat the Palatine crowds.
- Booking
- Buy the combined Pitti + Boboli ticket if you want both; reservations advised in season.
- Allow
- 2–3 hours
- Accessibility
- Largely step-free with lifts to the main galleries; the Boboli slope behind is steep.
Consider instead
Sources and method (2)
- A single €16 ticket (or €20 online incl. €4 fee) covers the Palatine Gallery, Royal Apartments, Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Gallery of Modern Art and Museum of Costume and Fashion. uffizi.it ↗
- The Palatine Gallery holds one of the largest Raphael collections anywhere, hung salon-style in the Medici's own apartments; a combined PassePartout with the Uffizi and Boboli is €38, valid 5 days. uffizi.it ↗