Medici Legends & Renaissance Wonders: Florence Small Group Tour

This was an interesting tour that described the history and showed the architecture of medieval Florence.

Fun walking tour of the city lets you discover alleyways and gems you may otherwise miss! Manuel did a great job!

What an amazing walking tour from a passionate guide. Terrific way to call attention to things you may not normally notice.

Walking tour in central Florence. Great local guide who taught us so much about the Medici, Florence history and architecture. Highly recommend

An excellent overview of Florence and the Medicis. We also got to see the oldest sections of Florence.

This was a wonderful tour of a beautiful city with an incredibly knowledgeable tour guide who introduced us to facts and stories that made our visit truly memorable.

While walking the streets of Florence, we received a rich history lesson and learned a lot about this magnificent city. Our tour guide was wonderful and helped us uncover a lot of hidden gems.

Great story, with lots of hidden gems to see & learn. Manuel was a terrific guide, engaging & very knowledgeable Highly recommend!

Samona was a wonderful guide. Very knowledgeable and entertaining. A truly lovely experience. Learning the history behind the architecture was fascinating.

Guide was very informative and did a great job during the tour. Showed us some out of the way buildings, alleyways while providing interesting facts. Showed us how to spot old street churches and how to identify other artifacts.

Our tour was incredible! If you're visiting Florence and want to truly understand the soul of the city, this Medici tour is an absolute must. From the moment we began, our guide brought Renaissance Florence to life with captivating stories of the Medici dynasty—their rise to power, their scandals, and their unmatched patronage of the arts.

The guide was very knowledgeable. It was slow paced and very informative. We learned a lot about the history of the City.

Very knowledgeable yet an efficient 105 minute tour. The Medici Family is fascinating and so essential to the history of Florence. This tour does a great job of storytelling how that history unfolded.

I had a private walking tour of Florence today with Manuel Messina and it did not disappoint! Manual was very knowledgeable and friendly, I learnt so much about Florence’s history in the short two hours with Manuel and I couldn’t recommend him enough. The experience was fantastic and I did not want it to end!

I did this tour with my ten year old son. I am very interested in everything Medici so I expected to enjoy the tour and I did! What really impressed me is the way Manuel adapted the tour to make it more child friendly. He interacted with my son and in the process we both got to enjoy discovering the old Florence, hidden amongst the Florence of today, if you know where to look. Thank you Manuel!

This tour did not focus on the Medici family as the description states. That was disappointing. If you want to experience and know more on the Medici family go to the Medici Palace museum and/or the Medici Family museum. Manuel was attentive and a kind guide. I wear hearing aids and he checked in with me a few times to be sure I could hear him.

Manuel was an amazing guide! Not only did he explain the history behind the sights but gave an explanation of how a florentine resident would see the sights.

A very detailed story of the Medici family. We particularly enjoyed the details of how the Medici influenced the world both then and now!

Mario was extremely knowledgeable, great pace, would recommend taking early in the visit to help appreciate Florence.

The tour was awesome learn so much about Florence Italy amazing tour guide and good spots were shown on this tour I would recommend.

Manuel was an outstanding guide. His extensive knowledge and clear, detailed explanations made the experience exceptional. Highly recommended!

Fantastic tour - he knows so much and I’ll look at Florence in a whole new perspective now! I can’t recommend this enough.

This was a very enjoyable experience. Manuel was brilliant, friendly and very knowledgeable. Lots of interesting facts.

I thoroughly enjoyed this tour. It offered a perspective on the city I wouldn't have had otherwise which made me appreciate and love Florence as a first time visitor! By the end of the trip I was energized and excited to continue exploring. I highly recommend!

I am was very interested in history of the city! I am a big Leonardo fan! We received a lots of beautiful and interesting details about the Medici family and him. I am very satisfied!

I have always wanted to do the Medici tour, and Manuel was amazing and knowledgeable and funny. I highly recommend this tour!

Manuel provided our small group with an outstanding intro to the history of Florence. He pointed out various features and showed us how the City changed from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and described many of the important figures who drove those changes. Fascinating! Highly recommend

Manuel is an exceptional guide and a native Florentine. His tour was informative, professional and enjoyable. I highly recommend this tour of central Florence!

Very enjoyable and interesting tour with a terrific guide. He showed us things we would never have seen and told the history of Florence through the buildings.

Our guide was very professional and has been giving tours at the Vatican for about 20 years. She was very knowledgeable, and it was also nice to be able to skip pass the long waiting lines!

I have read some about the Medici and their role in Florence, so I knew the basic history. I liked the way our guide made the stories come alive. She put a little humour into her stories, and role playing, so it gave a sense to how things might have come about. The sound system really needs to be updated. Our guide talked while walking. I missed 30% of what was said while walking and my friend missed 70%, because of the street noise level. For seniors like us, headsets should be an option. This is my second time to Florence within one year. All the tours are based on first timers. I would like to be able to take a more in-depth tour based on the fact that I know and have grasped the basics.

Florence history tour with Manuel was amazing! He is a wealth of knowledge and a great storyteller. He intertwined the history and culture of the city beautifully , and showed us all sorts of fun facts and places we never would have seen on our own. Highly recommend!

Words cannot describe how amazing this tour was! Our tour guide Martina was by far the best tour guide we have had in Italy! The pure information and fun facts made the tour but it wasn’t just that. Martina was clearly so passionate about the information and the Medici family. We went on our first day in Florence and have spent the trip looking for either the crest of the family as she did such an amazing job at explaining the evolution of the crest!

Manuel was a great guide and we highly recommend this tour You’ll see Florence through a a very specific lens and start To understand how Florence developed through history. Good old for kids 10 and up.

Manuel was prompt, courteous, enthusiastic, and informative. His tour was very interesting, pointing out historical evidence that would have gone unnoticed by us. He included photos & maps on his tablet to connect the past with the present and a witty sense of humor that kept us feeling upbeat. 3 generations of American women were more than pleased with this tour and our guide, Manuel. We highly recommend!

Great story teller and provided excellent historical information about Florence and the Medici family.

Manuel was outstanding. Vert knowledgeable and showed us many things we would never have noticed on our own. This was our second trip to Florence, and we still found it highly valuable.

So much great information about the history of the city. We saw and learned about objects and places in plain sight that you would miss without such a wonderful guide! Very engaging presentation.

We were so fortunate to work with Manuel, who is an amazing and knowledgeable guide. He is a passionate local expert who revealed to us so many little known facts about the incredible history of Florence. He answered our dozens of questions. He showed us numerous locations and experiences that we would never have be aware of. We are so grateful to Manuel for sharing his wisdom and insight into his lovely city. Thank you, Manuel!

Great introduction tour! Our guide Alberto is a very knowledgeable, we had a wonderful experience with him! Thank you Alberto!

This was our favorite tour in Italy as we visited Rome, Florence and Venice. Just the right amount of detail for 2 teenagers to keep them interested and for anyone who watched the Medici series this is a must do.

Probably the best private tour we had during our entire trip to Italy. Three couples, no headphones, just the best knowledgeable guide totally devoted to his subject of educating us to the history in Florence. Highly recommend!!

My husband and I did had Manuel as our guide and he was excellent. We booked this tour to learn the history of Florence as we knew the Medici’s were a central influence. This tour provided us with just enough of the highlights of the history to provide us with a base for the remainder of our stay along with some of our other planned tours. Manuel was easy to understand and very personable. I thought the use of the IPad to show us some of the history he was discussing was excellent resource to use in our small group. We would definitely recommend this tour.

This was an amazing tour. I have taken many tours prior to this. This was the very best tour I have ever been on. Samona, the tour guide was exceptional. You can tell she had a love for history, architecture, and Florence. She was very knowledgeable and very enthusiastic. This tour is a must if you are in Florence. I highly recommend this store. Thank you Samona for a job. Well done. Five stars all the way.

This was a highlight of our trip to Florence.. I highly recommend doing this tour on your first day in Florence. Manuel who is a native of Florence is a master storyteller and historian.

This was our second tour with Manuel, and we enjoyed both. His passion for Florence and it's history were inspirational. Great experience!

The tour was average. It was private, which really, we thought was small group, so that is our misunderstanding.

Manuel's knowledge of Florence and his ability to share it through stories of a famous family made this a tour to remember. Highly recommended

We loved how our tour guide was so excited about the Medice history in Firenzia. She was very personable as well as knowledgeable. We highly recommend her guide services to visitors. Her English was perfect.