Guided Visit to the Medici Chapel

Our English speaking professional Guide will take you to the Medici Chapels complex. First of all you will enter the Buontalenti Crypt, under the Princes Chapel, where the Medici and their family members are buried. Their bodies have been recently exhumed to obtain more details on their lifestyles, illnesses and on the real causes of their deaths, many of which are still shrouded in mystery.

You will also be able to admire the walls covered with semi-precious stones and marble panels in the great Princes Chapel, for which the Opificio delle pietre Dure (The factory of semi-precious stones) was created, so that this enormous decorative task could be carried out. Today, it is one of the most prestigious restoration workshops and museums in the world.

One then proceeds into the New Vestry of San Lorenzo, designed by Michelangelo, to see one of his most famous sculptural groups: the allegorical figures of Dawn, Dusk, Day and Night, the statues of two Medici dukes and a Madonna and Child.

Highlights:

Medici Chapels compley
Buontalenti Crypt
Princes Chapel
Opificio delle pietre Dure
New Vestry of San Lorenzo

Price includes:

Professional guide
Museum entrance fees with bookings
Earphones are provided for groups of over 15 participants inside the museum

Departure time:

The tour is available all year round on Mondays at 10:30.
Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour begins!

Departure point:

Medici Chapels - Piazza Madonna Aldobrandini.

Duration:

1 hour 15 minutes

Please note:

From November 2016 until March 2017 the English and Spanish tour have a minimum of 2 people to make the tour / French, German and Italian the minimum is 4 people
From April 2017 until October 2017 English, Spanish, French, German and Italian have a minimum of 2 people to make the tour