Gather at Via Cavour 36 Red, where your guide will introduce the visit and brief the group before the short walk to the museum. The meeting point is straightforward to locate and close to public transport.

Use priority access to enter the gallery without queuing, then step directly into the earliest halls. Here, gold-ground altarpieces by Cimabue and Duccio set the scene, before Giotto's radical introduction of volume and human emotion marks the first major turning point in the story of Western art.

Move through Gentile da Fabriano's narrative-rich Adoration of the Magi, then encounter Paolo Uccello's Battle of San Romano, a landmark experiment in perspective. Filippo Lippi's tender Madonna with Child and Two Angels and Piero della Francesca's precise Dukes of Urbino illustrate how artists began to idealize human form.

The Botticelli collection occupies the tour's emotional centre. Your guide examines the painter's close relationship with the Medici, the mythological programmes behind Primavera and The Birth of Venus, and the technical choices that give his figures their distinctive weightless quality.

View Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation and Baptism of Christ alongside Michelangelo's Tondo Doni, the only panel painting by Michelangelo on permanent public display. Your guide contextualises these works within each artist's broader career and the intellectual climate of late 15th-century Florence.

Three large halls showcase major works by Raphael, Titian, and Caravaggio, each representing a distinct strand of 16th- and 17th-century painting. The guided tour concludes here, and you are welcome to explore the remaining galleries independently until the museum closes.