Tours in Florence

From bus tours to walking tours, cooking classes to private guides, sidetrips to Pisa and tours of the Uffizi, here are the best guided microtours in Florence

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A Segway tour of Florence
A Segway tour of Florence.Even if you're a die-hard solo traveler and scoff at the folks being herded from one sight to another in the big tourist clots of a tour group, you can get a lot of mileage out of sightseeing guides once you're in Florence.

Bus tours of the city; escorted day trips to outlying sights and nearby towns like Pisa or the Chianti; walking tours around town; guided tours through museums or cathedrals; culinary tours, wine tastings, and cooking classes (which get their own page); and and private guides—these are all what I call microtours (as opposed to the macrotours of fully escorted bus trips).

Then there are fun experiences like:

A pasta-making cooking class in Florence.
A pasta-making cooking class in Florence.Local guides who concentrate only on one city or sight are usually experts, not tour bus escorts who’ve merely memorized a canned spiel for each town, stop, and sight along the way.

By combining do-it-yourself planning and travel with microtours, you can get the best of both worlds. The best microtours are packed with more information (history, background, anecdotes, details, and explanations) than any guidebook has room to print.

A tip: On any tour, be a head-of-the-class nerd and stick next to the guide. Walking from stop to stop on the tour, you’ll be able to chat on your own with her and ask questions, and you’ll also get to hear her answers and explanations to everyone else’s questions.

There are essentially six kinds of microtours, each covered on its own section:

  • Bus tours
  • Walking tours
  • Sight & museum tours
  • Fun & offbeat experiences
  • Sidetrips from Florence
  • Private guides

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