Florence · Oltrarno · The palace of the Medici and its gardens
Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens: tickets and hours
A grand palace full of paintings and a green hill of fountains and statues, just across the river. Choose your ticket and plan your day.
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Opening hours for every month are on the Opening hours page.
Checked against the official website on 14 November 2026 · Official source
In short
- Ready to go? Pick your ticket below. The ticket for Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens with a city audio guide is the most popular, and there are also tickets for the palace alone and for the gardens alone.
- The palace museums are open Tuesday to Sunday from 8:15 to 18:30, and closed on Mondays. The gardens open at 8:15 every day and close earlier in winter: check the monthly hours below.
- Dogs are not allowed in the Boboli Gardens. The gardens are closed on the first and last Monday of each month.
- A 5-day pass joins the Uffizi, Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens, if you want to spread your visits over a few days.
The Palatine Gallery, hung like a private collection
The Palatine Gallery fills the first floor of the palace with about 500 masterpieces. The paintings hang close together, as in a private collection, not in order of date or school.
It holds the largest group of works by Raphael in the world, among them the Madonna della Seggiola and the Veiled Woman. You also find Titian, Rubens, Tintoretto and Caravaggio.
The Planet Rooms
Pietro da Cortona painted the ceilings of the Planet Rooms between 1640 and 1647. Each room is named after a planet.
The Amphitheatre and the Fountain of Neptune
Behind the palace courtyard the gardens open into the Amphitheatre, a large green bowl cut into the hill. An Egyptian obelisk stands in the middle.
The main path leads on to the Fountain of Neptune, made by Stoldo Lorenzi between 1565 and 1568.
The Isolotto and the Grotta Grande
The Isolotto is an oval island in a pond ringed by trees, designed by Giulio and Alfonso Parigi around 1618. A fountain of the Ocean stands in the centre.
The Grotta Grande, begun by Vasari and finished by Ammannati and Buontalenti between 1583 and 1593, has three main sections.
The view from the top
The path climbs the hill to Forte di Belvedere, built by Buontalenti between 1590 and 1595. It is the highest point of the gardens, with views over the city.