The Royal Apartments of Palazzo Pitti

After 5 years, reopen the Royal Apartments of Palazzo Pitti, where the Medici, Lorena and Savoy families lived.

On the first floor of the palace 14 sumptuous rooms, which saw among its first residents, in the second half of the seventeenth century, the Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici, son of Grand Duke Cosimo III. The last to have lived there was Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy, who left the Palace to the Italian State, together with the Boboli Gardens, in 1919.

A long restoration work involved the vaults and floors and a careful campaign of cleaning, maintenance and recovery interventions was carried out on frescoes, stuccos, carvings, silk wallpapers, curtains, paintings, furniture and ornaments. The decorative style of the Apartments is "mixed" and reflects the eras and tastes of the personalities and dynasties who have lived there over the centuries.

In this wing of the Palace you can admire crystal chandeliers, frescoes, paintings, antique furniture, refined tapestries, so that you can immerse yourself in the life of the nobles of centuries ago. The visit includes: the Green Room, the Throne Room, the Celestial Room, the Chapel, the ‘Parrots’ Room, the Queen’s Room, the Queen’s Chamber, the Oval Cabinet, the Round Cabinet, the King’s Chamber, the King’s Study, the Red Room, the King’s Antechamber.

Admission to the Royal Apartments | Rules

The Royal Apartments are open to visitors from Tuesday to Sunday. The unique structure of the apartments requires that admission be regulated, with limited numbers of visitors entering the apartments.
The first tour starts at 10.00 am, the last tour leaves at 5.00 pm. Groups are made up of a maximum number of 20 visitors.

Tours set off every 30 minutes. Time slots available are as follows: 10.00 am - 10.30 am - 11.00 am - 11.30 am - 12.00 noon - 12.30 pm – 1.00 pm - 1.30 pm - 2.00 pm - 2.30 pm - 3.00 pm - 3.30 pm - 4.00 pm - 4.30 pm - 5.00 pm.
The visit lasts approximately 30 minutes. Visitors must arrive at the Meeting-Point, located on the first floor, in the entrance hall leading into the Galleria Palatina, 5 minutes prior to the scheduled entry time for the visit to the Royal Apartments. Failure to respect the timetable will result in the loss of the right of access.
It takes approximately 20 minutes to reach the Meeting-Point from the main door of Palazzo Pitti. Show your card to staff at the main door leading into Palazzo Pitti from the square (Piazza Pitti) well before the time slot shown on the ticket, in order to enjoy priority access to the museum circuit on the day you have booked your tour of the Royal Apartments. This will allow you plenty of time also to visit the other museums in the circuit.
At the Meeting-Point, a further check is carried out to verify the validity of the tickets for access to the Royal Apartments, which must be shown together with an identification document; therefore, please remember to keep your ticket.

With Firenzecard you can book, without any additional costs:
• at the ticket offices of the Uffizi Galleries, the Bargello National Museum, Palazzo Pitti, when you purchase  Firenzecard;
• via the call center (+39 055 294883 from Monday to Friday 8:30 am - 6:30 pm, Saturday 8:30 am - 6:00 pm, Sunday and national holidays 9:00 am - 6:00 pm). Please note: You can book for the Uffizi Galleries and the Royal Apartments of Palazzo Pitti at the same time.

Visitors may book their tour of the Royal Apartments for the same day on which they plan to visit the Galleria Palatina. Once visitors have left a Palazzo Pitti museum, the Boboli Garden or the Bardini Garden, they may not return for a second visit on the same ticket (the Royal Apartments are part of the Galleria Palatina).
The reservation must also be made for minors in the family unit.




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