Walk the Medici's garden of statues and fountains

Yes. Since 13 October 2025, every ticket sold by Le Gallerie degli Uffizi — which runs the Boboli Gardens — is nominative (personalised): each ticket carries the holder's name, and at the entrance the name on the ticket is checked against a physical identity document. If the name does not match the ID, entry is refused and no refund is given. When you book with us we collect each visitor's exact name and enter it with the operator, so your ticket matches the passport or ID you travel on. This is the single most important thing to get right — see the booking step where we ask for each visitor's name.

We need the full first and last name of every visitor in your party, spelled exactly as they appear on the passport or government ID that visitor will carry on the day. Even a minor spelling difference can cause entry to be refused at the gate, with no refund — so please copy the names character-for-character from the ID. Bring the original physical document; photocopies, phone photos, and digital scans are not accepted at the entrance.

It is a secured timed-entry ticket, not a queue-jump gimmick. The Boboli Gardens admit visitors in reserved time windows; your booking holds a specific entry slot in your name, so you go to the reserved-entry line at your time rather than waiting in the general ticket-hall queue at Palazzo Pitti, which can run long on peak mornings. Once inside, you wander the garden at your own pace — there is no time limit on how long you stay.

The standard ticket is a reserved timed entry to the whole Boboli Gardens — the Amphitheatre with the ancient Egyptian obelisk, the Neptune Fountain, the Buontalenti Grotto, the Viottolone cypress avenue, the Isolotto with the Oceanus Fountain, and the Garden of the Knight. The Boboli ticket also covers the Porcelain Museum within the grounds. We send a 5-minute audio history before your visit. The standard Boboli ticket does not include Palazzo Pitti's interior galleries — for those, choose the combined Pitti Palace + Boboli Gardens ticket. The separate Uffizi Galleries and Vasari Corridor are their own tickets.

The Boboli Gardens ticket covers the garden itself (plus the Porcelain Museum inside the grounds). The combined Pitti Palace + Boboli Gardens ticket adds the interior of Palazzo Pitti — the Palatine Gallery, the Royal Apartments, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, and the modern-art and costume collections — and the Bardini Garden, all on one nominative reservation. If you want only a relaxed couple of hours outdoors among the fountains and statues, the Boboli ticket is enough; if you also want the Medici palace interiors, the combined ticket saves you a second visit.

The price shown on the ticket card is the full price you pay in your own currency — there are no FX surprises and no hidden add-ons. It covers a reserved timed-entry ticket booked correctly in your name, plus our concierge service: collecting and entering your details to match the gate ID check, holding your slot, 24/7 multilingual support, and an audio history. We are an independent service and do not publish the museum's own admission price; what you see is our all-in concierge price.

Aim to be at the reserved-entry line 10–15 minutes before your booked slot, with the physical ID matching each name on the ticket ready to show. The main entrance is through the courtyard of Palazzo Pitti on Piazza de' Pitti. Arriving earlier is fine, but you will not be admitted before your window opens. There are cafés around Piazza de' Pitti to wait in nearby.

Most visitors spend 1.5 to 2.5 hours in the garden. It is large and hilly, and rewards an unhurried wander — the climb to the Forte di Belvedere viewpoint and the walk down the Viottolone to the Isolotto each add time. A focused loop taking in the Amphitheatre, the Grotto, and the Neptune Fountain can be done in about an hour. There is no time limit once you are inside.

The Boboli Gardens open daily at 08:15, with the closing time varying by season — earlier in winter (around 16:30) and later in high summer (up to 18:30 or 19:30), with last admission about an hour before closing. The garden is closed on the first and last Monday of each month, and on 1 January and 25 December. Hours shift through the year, so confirm on the day if your visit falls in deep winter or around a major Italian holiday.

The operator offers a reduced rate for EU citizens aged 18–25 and free admission for several categories, including under-18s of any nationality, visitors with a disability and one companion, and certain professional and educational groups, all on production of valid documentation at the gate. These eligibility-gated rates are administered by the museum directly, not through our concierge booking. If someone in your party qualifies for free entry, they still need a nominative reservation in their name — contact us and we will help arrange the correct reservation.

Most dates have open slots, but peak mornings and weekends in high season can sell out. If your exact slot is gone, we offer the nearest available window on your date, or you can join our priority waitlist at no charge: we watch the official calendar and email you the moment a slot opens for your date, then secure it in your name. You only pay once we have a confirmed slot to book.

Nominative tickets are personal and tied to a specific date and time, and the operator treats them as non-transferable and non-refundable once issued. All sales are final. The exceptions are operator failure — if the garden cancels your day — in which case we refund you in full, because in those cases no valid ticket was ever issued. If your plans are uncertain, reply to your confirmation email as early as possible and we will help where the operator's rules allow.

Yes — and specifically so. The Boboli Gardens are one of only two gardens inscribed in 2013 as part of 'Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany', a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site of twelve villas and two gardens. Boboli also stands within the Historic Centre of Florence, a separate World Heritage Site inscribed in 1982. So the garden is doubly protected — named in its own right in the 2013 listing, and inside the wider Florence inscription as well.

The Boboli Gardens are a monumental 16th-century Italian garden on the hillside behind Palazzo Pitti in Florence, created for the Medici from 1549 by Niccolò Tribolo, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Bernardo Buontalenti. Covering about eleven hectares, it is one of the first and most influential formal Italian gardens, filled with fountains, grottoes, terraces, and more than a hundred statues. Its highlights include the hillside Amphitheatre with a genuine ancient Egyptian obelisk of Ramesses II, the Neptune Fountain, the fantastical Buontalenti Grotto, and the Isolotto island with its Oceanus Fountain.

The Boboli Gardens are entered through the courtyard of Palazzo Pitti at Piazza de' Pitti 1, on the Oltrarno (south) bank of the Arno. From Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station it is about a 20-minute walk through the historic centre and across the Ponte Vecchio; the area is inside Florence's limited-traffic zone (ZTL), so there is no car access — most visitors arrive on foot. City buses C3 and D serve the Pitti area. Florence Santa Maria Novella has direct high-speed rail to Rome, Milan, Bologna, and Venice.