Michelangelo's private tour in Florence

Start your tour by meeting your guide at your hotel if it’s located in the center of Florence.In this 3 hour tour you will discover Michelangelo the great Florentine genius,thanks to our expert and licensed guides.The first place you will visit it the Accademia Gallery:a Florentine museum in Via Ricasoli. This is the Italian museum with the highest number of visitors after the Uffizi and inside you can admire most of Michelangelo’s sculptures.You will also find his early works and his important masterpieces.Your guide will take you to see 4 very imponent incomplete statues,their names were decided only in the 19th century by scolars wich called them The Awakening Slave, The Young Slave, The Bearded slave and The Atlass.They are some of the finest examples of Michelangelo’s habitual working practice, referred to as “non-finito” (or incomplete), magnificent illustrations of the difficulty of the artist in carving out the figure from the block of marble and emblematic of the struggle of man to free the spirit from matter. These sculptures have been interpreted in many ways. As we see them, in various stages of completion, they evoke the enormous strength of the creative concept as they try to free themselves from the bonds and physical weight of the marble.Then your guide will walk you to see the Michelangelo’s David.This marble sculpture was built in 1501 and is the emblem of the Renaissance. The David has always been considered the perfect ideal of male art beauty. After the Gallery you will walk with your guide to the Basilica of Santa Croce,one of the most famous Florentine churches built between 1294 and 1385 to see the frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto and tombs and Memorial of many important italian people