Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens

Boboli Gardens tickets: palace and garden together, the palace alone, or five days with the Uffizi

The Boboli Gardens are the garden of Palazzo Pitti, and one ticket takes you through both. The one we sell costs €30 and gives you a reserved entry to the palace, another to the garden, the booking fees and a downloadable audio guide to Florence. Villa Bardini isn’t on it.

Booking isn’t compulsory at either: the ticket office also sells tickets for the same day. We don’t sell a ticket for the garden alone, so if the palace doesn’t interest you, the museum’s own Boboli ticket is the one to get, at €10 on the day or €13 booked online.

For the palace without the garden, Palazzo Pitti and the Palatine Gallery, at €24, covers the Palatine Gallery and the Royal Apartments, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Costume Gallery, with the same audio guide. Its listing still names the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, which the museum has closed for now. At checkout there’s also a child option and a reduced one for EU citizens.

With the Uffizi on your list as well, the five-day pass for the Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli starts at €45. It costs less than the three tickets bought one by one. You get one entry at each over five days in a row, and the Uffizi has to come first, on a set day and time; after that, Pitti and Boboli need no booking.

All three of our tickets are non-refundable, so pick the day once you know your plans, and mind the first Sunday of the month. Pitti and Boboli are free for everyone that day, next on 6 December 2026, and a booked ticket won’t get you in any faster than the free queue. Under-18s go in free every day, as in all of Italy’s state museums.

Closed at Palazzo Pitti this autumn: the Treasury and rooms of the Palatine Gallery

Before you choose a palace ticket, know what’s shut. The museum lists works and closures in several parts of the building, with no reopening dates, and the ticket listings still name some of these spaces.

That leaves the rest of the Palatine Gallery, the Royal Apartments, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Costume Gallery open, and that’s the visit to plan around.

Boboli Gardens opening hours, and the Mondays only the garden opens

The palace and the garden don’t close on the same days. Palazzo Pitti shuts every Monday, while the Boboli Gardens open on Mondays except the first and the last of each month, so on the Mondays in between you can walk the garden while the palace is closed. For the rest of 2026, those are 9, 16 and 23 November and 14 and 21 December.

The garden opens at 8:15 every day it’s open, and its closing time moves with the months, though bad weather can close it or change its hours at short notice. Last entry is always an hour before closing, so from November to February that means 15:30.

The Boboli Gardens and Palazzo Pitti with the Firenze Card or the Uffizi five-day pass

The Firenze Card, Florence’s official museum card, includes the garden and all the Palazzo Pitti museums among its 60 or so sites, once each, over 72 hours from your first entry. At Pitti there’s one step first: you collect a ticket for the palace circuit at the Cortile degli Ammannati. The Royal Apartments take a reservation, made online at no cost for the day you visit the Palatine Gallery, children included.

The card doesn’t skip queues: only holders who have booked go through the priority door. Booking isn’t compulsory here, though, so you can also just turn up and collect your circuit ticket.

Mondays need a thought too. Pitti is shut, and the card’s 72 hours run from your first entry wherever it is, so a card started on a Monday leaves you only the other two days for the palace.

The Firenze Card pays off once you’re seeing five or six paid museums. With only Pitti, Boboli and the Uffizi, it costs more than the five-day pass, which is the cheaper way to do those three; our Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes page sets them side by side.

Our Uffizi and Accademia combo doesn’t include the palace or the garden, but it promises 10% off other sights, Boboli among them, through a code sent by email.

If you go for the Firenze Card, the Uffizi and Pitti count as two of its museums, and the rest of your list decides whether the €94 is worth it.

Inside Palazzo Pitti: the Palatine Gallery, the Royal Apartments and the Russian icons

You go into the palace through the Cortile degli Ammannati, its inner courtyard, and from there the museums open off one another. The Palatine Gallery is the one you’ll have seen in pictures: rooms with frescoed vaults and paintings in gilded frames hung close together. The Royal Apartments are part of the same route.

Elsewhere in the building are the Gallery of Modern Art and the Costume Gallery. The Museum of Russian Icons and the Palatine Chapel are visited together, and the icons, the museum says, are the oldest collection of Russian icons in Western Europe.

When you need a break, the café is in the courtyard, so you can stop between the palace and the garden without leaving.

Walking the Boboli Gardens: the amphitheatre, Neptune and the Kaffeehaus

Out in the garden, the amphitheatre is the big open space: stone tiers and niches with statues on both sides of a lawn, and the garden’s long axis running on behind it.

The Fountain of Neptune sits in a large pool among lawns and trees, with the sea god on a rock in the middle of it.

Higher up, the Kaffeehaus is a small 18th-century pavilion on a terrace, and from beside it the roofs of Florence and the dome of the Duomo fill the valley below.

Boboli Gardens entrances: the Pitti courtyard, Via Romana and Porta Romana

Palazzo Pitti stands on Piazza dei Pitti, in the Oltrarno, the part of Florence across the Arno. The palace entrance, and the way into the garden from it, is the Cortile degli Ammannati.

The Boboli Gardens have three more gates, which work as exits too: Annalena on Via Romana, the Forte di Belvedere and Porta Romana. That means you can walk in from the palace and come out on another side of the garden instead of retracing your steps.