Renaissance & Medieval Florence Guided Walking Tour Plus Mobile App

Marta was a knowledgeable and informative guide. She provided information about the history of Florence, the influence of the Medici family and key attractions during the tour.

For a first day in Florence, a tour like this is perfect. Gives you great context. Our guide was friendly and very knowledgeable and was willing to answer our questions

I took the tour with 3 other people and had a wonderful time. Elena was our guide and she did an incredible job! Everything was incredibly interesting and well told!

My wife, daughter and I had a wonderful guided tour with Elisa. Her knowledge of the City really helped us understand the magic of Florence. Even better was the way she engaged with the family and unlocked the stories of Florence as as we moved around its streets and squares. Thank you for a wonderful day.

From the Duomo across the Ponte Vecchio. I do wish we could have spent more time going into the Duomo and could have gone into the Palazzo Pitti.

This was a fabulous way to understand Florence's history and get to know the city. The only negative was the tour people were not dressed according to what we were told not did they identify themselves which caused some confusion.

Our tour guide was incredibly knowledge about the history of Florence. Each monument and the background was provided in detail. She seemed to have a real passion for Florence's history which is infectious. The only recommendation would that it would be great to be able to walk and talk more, as it was a chilly day and standing in a spot made me feel more cold.

We did this tour on our first morning in Florence and it gave a very nice overview of the city. The tour, however, was booked for both English and Spanish and the tour guide had to repeat each sentence twice. It started to feel rushed as she was still trying to fit everything in, in the amount of time scheduled. The tour guide herself was great (and had amazing language skills!), but it would probably be best not to schedule two different languages at the same time.

With a great tour guide like Alyshia, this is the best way to get the lay of the land in the core of Florence. If you're going to be in Florence for a few days, this is the best way to get all of the history behind the architecture before immersing yourself in each site, and gives you a good geographic overview. I wouldn't recommend it if you only have one day though, as it brings you to the sites, but not in the sites. Overall, a great experience.

Ilaria Lucaccioni gave us a fantastic walking tour of the inner city. Her knowledge and perspective of art, history, politics, architecture, and the Medicis was enlightening and very informative. We've visited 5 times and learned more in 3 hrs than in all previous trips combined. Ilaria was truly a pleasure. Would highly recommend her.

Waste of precious vacation time and money. Was a total of 10 people. 6 French speaking and 4 English. The guide struggled with both languages and spent 70% with French folk and 30 with us English. The guide had trouble with both languages, but mostly with the english language. Trouble communicating about the subject matter. A refund should made!

<p>Helena was a great host and was very knowledgeable. We ticked all the main boxes with her. Highly recommended!</p>

<p>Larisa our guide was very knowledgeable and made it very interesting</p>

<p>This tour was amazing. The guide was very informative and with Florence’s history and ability to keep their treasures was well worth seeing</p>

<p>It was very informative however, the guide was boring to listen too. She did not make it very exciting. Following I had no idea it they were going to speak in Spanish and English which made the tour even longer than it needed to be.</p>

<p>Sylvia did a great job on this introductory tour to Florence. She will give you information on where to go during your stay and some inside tips.</p>

<p>It was us and another 3 Spanish tourists waiting for the guide so we figured we'd be split but to our dismay we were grouped together with an English and Spanish-speaking guide. Don't get me wrong the tour was very informative and the guide very fluent and knowledgable but we felt like we got half of what we signed up for. At each stop the same information was narrated in the 2 languages, so in practical terms, had it been an English-speaking only group which is what we imagined it would be we would have gotten double the information in the allotted time! The time spent narrating in Spanish and vice versa for our Spanish counterparts could have been used for additional information in English. We were truth be told quite disappointed by this as the guide had a lot to offer.</p>

<p>Our guide Maximilian was number ONE..Very knowledgeable and full of anecdotes about the history.Kudos to him!</p>

<p>Our guide did the tour in 2 languages which really slowed the tour, otherwise it was fine.</p>

<p>Our guide was very knowledgeable and informative of the history and culture of Florence. I definitely recommend this for anyone visiting the city.</p>

<p>Our guide was pretty good, took us through this 2 hour walking tour to a few of must-go places in Florence and provided useful information, history, background....etc.<br/> I highly recommend this walking tour, especially for the first-time visitors in Florence to help them determine what they want to see in more depth within a short stay.</p>

<p>It was good. We had already done a night tour and there was A LOT of the same information. The way Viator describes the tours, it appears as though you are getting two different tours. Not really.</p>

<p>a knowledgable and friendly tour guide who paced herself with her audience and demonstrated a deep knowledge of her city</p>

<p>Very informative. If you have a short time in Florence, it's a great way to see everything.</p>

<p>We were lucky to have a small group for this tour, there was plenty of opportunity for lots of questions! The guide was local and therefore very knowledgeable on Florence, provided us with a great deal of history and detail. Would highly recommend for an easy walking tour</p>

<p>Walking tour is correct -- we only got into one small chapel. Tour guide Deborah was very good and knowledgeable. Wouldn't do a walking tour like this again.</p>

<p>I was so disappointed about this tour. Previous similar tours have been excellent. Unfortunately this tour was in French and English despite being advertised as English. As a result, we spent half the time waiting for the French translation to finish instead of getting any history of Florence.</p>

<p>Guide did not add information beyond what we already knew from reading description of tour. A private guide should give extra info, the other participants in the tour knew more than she did and were often correcting her knowledge of the Medici family. She also failed to introduce herself, I have no idea what her name was.</p>

<p>excellent evening....very informative, plenty of wine, good company.<br/> well worth doing!!</p>

<p>Five star definitely! We all had a wonderful walk around Florence - my husband, our granddaughter and I. The tour guide was thorough in his knowledge of the city, witty and wonderful in 1:1 conversation. Maybe we'll get a chance to do it again someday. We hope so.</p>

<p>Enjoyed the tour but we weren't especially impressed with Florence overall. It's a very big busy city with lots of people but it just felt as if it was all buildings, little walkways and lots of religious buildings.</p>

<p>Great tour, with a nice young lady to tell the stories of Florence.Pace was perfect.</p>

<p>Tour was great and so our guide. A small group of maybe ten people so it made it very personal. We had two different languages for the tour and that slowed it down some. A great way to get a nice overview of the city before exploring further on our own. Mike f</p>

<p>We ended up in a small group (5) so we had a great chance to interact and our guide was outstanding. <br/> She was very knowledgeable about Florence it's history, architecture etc but was also happy to talk about lifestyles and current events.<br/> This made a great introduction to Florence. <br/> Recommend the tour highly.</p>

<p>This was an informative overview of Florence and I would have missed the other side of the River and the great museum without the tour. Next visit I will probably stay on the South side of the river.</p>

<p>a perfect walkingtour with an excellent guide and a small group. we were only ten people and that was great. we didn,t need any earphones. The guide could answer all our upcoming questions. Great!!</p>

<p>This was a great tour. Take this before starting out on your own, as the guide will tell you about places that aren't normal tourist attractions and you can add them to your itinerary for later.</p>

<p>Annoyingly our guide found herself leading 2 groups. So 4 English speakers with 2 French speakers resulted in so much of our groups time being wasted as she translated twice. Whenever she wasn't translating she was on her mobile. No real engagement and didn't like being questioned on topics. Poor.</p>

<p>This was an excellent introduction to Florence. Our guide Roberta was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Well done to Viator for going ahead with this tour as there were only four of us on it.</p>

<p>As a family of four we were not impressed with the way things were run through Viator's partner company that ran this tour. It was a little disorganised at the beginning but we could overlook that. The main problem was that although the guide, Aida, was knowledgeable, she was doing the tour in English (what we booked) and Spanish... and as paying customers (25 euro each) we found this unacceptable. It detracted from all the information that the guide was telling us, it made us lose interest very quickly and obviously made the tour longer and we didn't enjoy ourselves as much as we would have liked. We could have easily done a 'free' tour but decided to use Viator as this particular tour had good reviews.</p>

<p>I was a bit disappointed as it seemed our guide wasn't too keen to try and impress. It was a very relaxed tour of Florence, and we liked the fact that we were part of only a group of 4. I didn't feel like I got much of a sense about the history of Florence, more just an idea of where everything was in relation to the main sights. Our guide was very friendly and chatty but we spent more time having random chats about food and football rather than focussing on the nitty gritty. We decided against further Viator tours in subsequent locations as a result.</p>

<p>2.5 hours of interest. An ideal way to start a visit to Florence. The cleverly chosen route gives a taste of the important aspects of Florence's renaissance and medieval history and leaves you in a strong position to chose what to explore further. The guide was informative, enthusiastic and sensitive to the needs of the group. I struggled a little with the strongly-accented English... a good reason to learn some Italian!</p>

<p>Our guide was very good and we explored all of the highlights of Florence. She was able to give history with a lot of interesting facts and details about the city. I highly recommend this tour to get acquainted with the city.</p>

<p>William was outstanding - full of knowledge and local history - and good humour. He was patient with us taking photos and had lots of things to tell. We both really enjoyed this and thought Florence was stunning. Thanks!</p>

<p>Excellent walking tour our guide Elizabeth was informative and gave us lots of extra add on information would definitely recommend</p>

<p>Best way to beat the queues and see all the main sites. Especially if you are short on time.</p>

<p>One of the best things of Florence is wandering the streets and alleys, the lane ways, and discovering another piazza, some history, or daily life. This tour offered a well-delivered conversation with all in the group about the history of the streets we were walking, bringing the stories to life.<br/> A thoroughly interesting and accessible way to start to understand some of the history that shaped this magic city.</p>

<p>Very nice guide called Deborah, showed us all the sights and explained in good english. She was willing to make other suggestions which was great, would recommend it to our friends. Florence is a beautiful city and the weather was superb. We had a great 4 night break.</p>

<p>Ok tour - bit hard to understand and wish we had walked into more places. This tour needs something else to make it really worth while.</p>