Five Travel tips for Florence

Uffizi Gallery Tips

Uffizi Gallery contains some of the most important and largest art collections in the world. It is also the world's oldest museum.Most of the tour guide books and online travel sites will urge them to ensure that a visit to Uffiizi is included as part of any Florence vacation, no matter how short. what most of them fail to tell them, or at least stress with enough weight, is that without a pre-booked a ticket, you don't might need to visit the Uffizi at all!

My wife and I had a three-day vacation in Florence in the beginning of April 2005. We had planned on a visit to the Uffizi Gallery and as soon as we checked our hotel we rang the Gallery to purchase tickets.After several attempts, without our calls will be answered, we asked the hotel reception to make a booking for us, they explained that it almost always was difficult to get through the on line booking and that our three-day stay will perhaps give sufficient advance notice to make a reservation. In spite of this, the hotel staff were most happy to keep trying, while we enjoyed Florence other wonders of the world.

We decided to check out the situation for us the next day but discovered the queues to which hardly seemed to move, stretch for a huge distance around the area of the Uffizi. Queuing throughout the day was certainly not the way we wanted to use our time in Florence, so we decided to leave things in reception staff able hands, while we enjoyed the other attractions that we had come to see the following in the evening, we were informed that, after many unsuccessful attempts to get through the on line booking, had finally achieved success, but only to receive information, all tickets were sold to the following day. Consequently, We missed out on many of Florence's greatest art treasures and our top travel tips for anyone visiting Florence on a short stay holiday to book tickets for the Uffizi Gallery is online for some time before your holiday.

Inside tips for the Cathedral

Another of Florence, in order not to be missed are the Duomo, the wonders. In fact, it is impossible to miss out on this fantastic building because it dominates the town and can be seen from almost anywhere.Taste of the views of the at the same time, enjoy a cup of coffee at one of the cafes in the surrounding piazza.Walk around it, disconnect all now and then, in order to appreciate it from every aspect. see it from the more distant, elevated positions around the city.This was once the largest Cathedral in the world and even now six hundred years after it was built, it is almost the fourth largest. Florence always insisted on everything will be the biggest and best, but what makes really unique is its Cathedral dome or "Dome".When Fillipo Brunelleschi undertook this masterpiece of Renaissance architecture, trøde no such dome was possible. the secret had been lost for over a thousand years but travelled to Rome to Brunelleschi to resolve it by examining the dome of the ancient Pantheon.

My tips for the Cathedral is to increase this incredible feat of engineering. you can do it by entering a stairway that leads inside the dome between its inner and outer shells. When you reach the top, you can go outside onto an external Gallery, which offers magnificent views over the city and the surrounding Tuscan countryside. this gallery was never finished, however, so that your views are limited to the North and West directions.

Palazzo Vecchio-David's copy tips

Perhaps the next most famous landmarks of Florence, the Palazzo Vecchio.It is again a building worth to enjoy from every aspect on the outside before entry to explore its fascinating, art-filled inside.

My tips for Palazzo Vecchio is to save a few minutes looking at the pollution-streaked COPY of the world's most famous statue, to realize that, although the original Michelangelo's David is safe inside the Accademia, the copy, standing just where the original once stood.

The River Arno across the tip

This tip is to retreat from the busiest tourist attractions of the city centre and to cross the River Arno over the Ponte Vecchio. the crowds at this wonderful, historic bridge will probably be even more tightly packed than in the Central seems you have just left but within a hundred metres of the second page, they will have the dilution and you can explore the delights of Boboli Gardens of Palazzo Pitti and before walking up the paths del Piazzo Michelangelo, which stands on a hill with beautiful views over Florence and its PEAKS.

A final Florence travel tips-avoidance "Stendhal Sydrome"

Florence has so much beauty, every year, there are a couple of tourists should be dealt with at local hospitals for a condition known as "Stendhal Syndrome." Symptoms ranging from feeling weak to complete exhaustion. Stendhal was to tourist if French nineteenth century tour of Florence overloaded his senses so much that he collapsed with these symptoms.

My final travel tips for a short holiday in Florence is not to try to extract too much in Florence's wealth of art treasures. Although, beauty and architectural results do not actually send you running to medical care, they can easily overwhelm tourist, fails to heed this advice.

The author is a travel article writer and co-owner of the site best-travel-tips, which aims to give travel tips and information on possible vacation holiday destinations worldwide.