Pitti Palace
Between public and private court life: a Palace for three dynasties
Purchased in 1550, the Palace was chosen by Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife Eleanor of Toledo as the new Grand Ducal residence, and it soon became the new symbol of the Medici’s power over Tuscany. It also housed the Court of other two dynasties: the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (which succeeded the Medici from 1737) and the Kings of Italy from the House of Savoy, who inhabited it from 1865. Nonetheless the palace still bears the name of its first owner, the Florentine banker Luca Pitti that in the mid-1400s started its construction – maybe after a design by Brunelleschi – at the foot of the Boboli hill beyond the Arno River.
Today the Palace is divided into five museums: the Treasury of the Grand Dukes and the Museum of Russian Icons (with the Palatine Chapel) on the ground floor, the Palatine Gallery and the Imperial and Royal Apartments on the first floor, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Costume and Fashion on the second floor.
From Tuesday to Sunday, 8.15am to 6.30pm
Mondays, 1 January, 25 December
Ticket office closes one hour before the closure of the museum.
The Imperial Apartments remain closed for refurbishment works until further notice.
Visits to the mezzanine floor of the Treasure of the Grandukes are stopped until further notice.
Single ticket
Single ticket for all Palazzo Pitti collections: Palatine Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Museum of Costume and Fashion, Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Museum of Russian Icons and Paltine Chapel.
Regular | 16€ |
Combined Pitti + Boboli (single price) | 22€ |
| 3€ | |
Free admission | 0€ |
Entrance reservation | 3€ |
PassePartout 5 Days
Single ticket for 5 consecutive days for Uffizi, Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens.
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Regular | 38€ |
- Elevator
On the right side of the main court.
- Accessibility
Entrance from Pitti Square with a 20% slope. Lifts to access to the floors.
- Cloakroom
Free. On the right side of the court. Umbrellas, cumbersome bags and backpacks must be left.
- WC
In the basement, entrance on the right side of the court; in the courtyard for people with reduced mobility.
- Baby pit-stop
Dedicated room for breastfeeding, change and relax in the basement, on the right side of the court.
- Audioguides
At the ticket office. Languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German. Price: 6.00 € for one pair of earphones. The delivery service is available until 3.30pm. Audio guides must be returned within 5.30pm.
- Bookshop
In the courtyard and at the first floor.
- Cafeteria
On the right side of the court. From September to May it closes at 7 pm. From June to August it closes at 8:00pm.
- Radio whisper
Charged. On the left side of the Ammannati Court
