What to Know About Florence’s Uffizi Passepartout

If there’s one thing Florence is known for, it’s art.

The city’s abundance of art can be traced back to Florence’s status as a center of commerce during the Italian Renaissance — when wealthy families were able and willing to commission substantial amounts of art from the city’s now-famous resident artists.

Today, visitors flock to see the palaces, churches, and other Florentine buildings that are filled with incredible works of art. One of the most popular museums in Florence — and all of Italy! — is the Uffizi Gallery. While you can buy a ticket to visit the Uffizi Gallery alone, you can also opt to purchase an all-in-one access ticket, the Uffizi Passepartout, that also includes entrance to other notable museums and sites that may be of interest — and are definitely worth visiting.

In this post, learn all about the Uffizi Passepartout, including which entrances are included in the Uffizi Passepartout, how to purchase the Uffizi Passepartout (and time it correctly!), and whether the Uffizi Passepartout is worth buying.

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What is the Uffizi Passepartout?

The Uffizi Passepartout is a multi-use ticket that gives you access to a variety of museums and other sites in Florence: the Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

There is an additional, more expensive Passepartout option that also includes access to the Vasari Corridor — a once-secret passageway between Pitti Palace and Palazzo Vecchio (Florence’s town hall).

Sites Included in the Uffizi Passepartout

Let’s run through the six sites that are potentially included in the Uffizi Passepartout.

First, here are the locations of the entrances to each site:

Below, you’ll find a brief description of what you can expect to experience at each site included in the Uffizi Passepartout.

Uffizi Gallery

The Uffizi Gallery is the most popular site in the Uffizi Passepartout, as well as one of the best-known and most-visited art museums in all of Italy.

Like many places in Florence, the Uffizi has its origins in the House of Medici, a powerful family that ruled Florence — first unofficially, and then officially — during the Italian Renaissance. The Uffizi complex was built to house the offices of Cosimo I de’ Medici, who was then the Duke of Florence, as well as the family’s collection of Roman sculptures. Today, many of the works of art displayed in the museum were once property of the Medici family.

I’ve visited the Uffizi twice. The first time, many years ago, was during my first trip to Europe, and I was dazzled. Is that because the museum is so wonderful, or because I was only 19 and hadn’t visited many (or maybe any) other European art museums for comparison? Hard to say.

But maybe it’s the latter, because during my most recent visit to the Uffizi — as a more experienced traveler now in my mid-30s — I was seriously underwhelmed.

To be sure, that’s partly because many of the galleries were under renovation, giving the place a sort of haphazard and unfinished feel that I didn’t remember from my prior visit. I was also visiting in August, when the Uffizi was both super crowded and super hot. At another time, I might have had a very different experience.

But on the whole, I mainly left the Uffizi with the impression that it’s overcrowded and overrated.

So, having said all that, do I still recommend that you visit the Uffizi? Yes!…probably.

If you’re interested in art museums, you should definitely see the Uffizi at least once — it’s one of the world’s most notable museums, after all, and the Botticelli collection really is remarkable.

But if you’re ambivalent about museums, you have my permission to skip it.

Pitti Palace

Pitti Palace, or Palazzo Pitti, is a Renaissance-era palace that once served as the residence for the Medici family.

Today, the Pitti Palace is a huge museum complex displaying paintings, sculptures, and much more (including other objects that belonged to the Medici family). The Pitti Palace also contains the Royal Apartments — the rooms where the Medicis and other ruling families lived — which recently reopened to visitors after years of restoration work.

Located beside the Boboli Gardens (which are also included in the Uffizi Passepartout, it’s a good idea to visit the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens back-to-back.

Personally, as museum experiences go, I much preferred Pitti Palace over the Uffizi — it’s far, far less crowded, with more beautiful rooms and more interesting arrangements of art.

Boboli Gardens

Right beside the Pitti Palace are the Boboli Gardens — a beautiful park designed for the Medici family.

The Boboli Gardens feature fountains, sculptures, thoughtfully designed segments and walking paths, and wonderful views of Florence’s famous Duomo cathedral.

National Archaeological Museum of Florence

Florence’s archaeological museum is a little-known perk of the Uffizi Passepartout — it’s not even listed on the Passepartout ticket itself, but entrance is included!

The archeological museum is surprisingly large, with plenty of artifacts from Italy, as well as Egypt and Greece (mainly).

Personally, I’m sort of so-so on archaeology museums — I tend to prefer art museums — but Florence’s archaeological museum was a breath of fresh air thanks to how wonderfully uncrowded it was (especially compared to places like the Uffizi).

Opificio delle Pietre Dure

The Opificio delle Pietre Dure — which loosely means “Hard Stone Factory” — is, in effect, a mosaic museum.

It’s full of absolutely gorgeous mosaics, as well as an informative exhibit about how they are crafted.

I loved this museum! The mosaics were amazing, and — like the archaeological museum — it was wonderfully uncrowded. If you ask me, the Opificio is a true hidden gem of Florence.

Vasari Corridor

The most expensive version of the Uffizi Passepartout includes access to the Vasari Corridor — an elevated passageway that connects the Pitti Palace with the Palazzo Vecchio. It even runs across the top of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence’s most famous bridge.

Ponte Vecchio, which contains part of the Vasari Corridor

When the Vasari Corridor was built, it was used by members of the Medici family to safely and secretly travel between their home in Pitti Palace to administrative offices in Palazzo Vecchio.

At the end of 2024, the Vasari Corridor reopened after many years of long and expensive renovations. Unfortunately, the Vasari Corridor was still closed during my most recent visit to Florence, but I would definitely purchase access to the corridor on a future visit! I’ve wanted to walk it since I first read Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, which includes a trip through the corridor.

Currently, the portion of the Corridor between the Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi remains closed to visitors. If you purchase a ticket for the Vasari Corridor, you will enter the Corridor on the first floor of the Uffizi, and exit it in the Buontalenti Grotto beside Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens — walking the Vasari Corridor is a one-way journey.

As a result, you may want to plan to visit the Uffizi, the Vasari Corridor, Pitti Palace, and Boboli Gardens all in one day (and in that order, though you could also swap the Boboli Gardens and Pitti Palace).

How to Buy the Uffizi Passepartout

You can buy the Uffizi Passepartout online here, or in person at the Uffizi or Pitti Palace.

This table summarizes which sites are included in the two Uffizi Passepartout options, as well as how much each pass costs for an adult:

If you’re only interested in visiting one or two of these sites, you can also purchase individual tickets for the Uffizi, Pitti Palace, or Boboli Gardens, as well as a combined ticket for the Uffizi and the Vasari Corridor.

Selecting the Time for Your Uffizi Passepartout

Both versions of the Uffizi Passepartout are valid for 5 consecutive days. You can visit the sites included in your pass once each over the course of five days (with skip-the-line privileges where relevant!), beginning on a date you will select when purchasing your ticket.

Importantly, the Uffizi must be the first site you visit with your Uffizi Passepartout, and when you purchase your pass, you must select the date and time of your entrance to the Uffizi. In other words, your Uffizi Passepartout will be valid for 5 days from the time that you enter the Uffizi.

Navigating the Uffizi Passepartout Ticket Website

The Uffizi website is extremely confusing, so here’s exactly how to purchase your Uffizi Passepartout.

On this site, find the Passepartout option and click on “Buy online.” This will open a new page that says “B-ticket” at the top. On this page, under “Events,” click on “Choose date and/or museum,” then select “Galleria degli Uffizi” from the “All Museums” dropdown menu. Additionally, select the date of your visit from the “Date” dropdown menu.

In the resulting list that populates, scroll down and look for the date you’d like to visit, and click on “Tickets” beside that date. The site will then take you to a list of all the available timeslots for that day. Some may be sold out, but look for an available one (I recommend choosing one as early as you can find and bear — this will help you avoid some of the crowds). You can select an Uffizi-only ticket there, or click on the “Reduced, combo and other tickets” dropdown menu to find the Passepartout:

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Add to shopping cart,” which will take you to the page where you can complete your checkout.

If you’d like to purchase a Passepartout with access to the Vasari Corridor, you will need to select “Gli Uffizi – Corridoio Vasariano” instead of “Galleria degli Uffizi” on the Events page. For this option, you will select the time of your entrance to the Vasari Corridor, but you must plan to enter the Uffizi at least two hours before that.

Accordingly, if you want to visit the Vasari Corridor, I recommend selecting a ticket time in the middle of the day and planning to spend the morning in the Uffizi.

Collecting Your Uffizi Passepartout

You will need to have a physical version of your Uffizi Passepartout to show at each site.

To do this, arrive early at the Uffizi and go to Door 3 (there will be signs at the site showing you where to go). Show them your email receipt of purchase and they will print your physical Passepartout.

Buying an Uffizi Passepartout from a Third-Party Vendor

A word of caution: some tour companies buy the Uffizi Passepartout and resell it via third-party vendors like GetYourGuide (though they don’t necessarily call it the Uffizi Passepartout in their advertising!).

Unless your ticket includes guided tours, these third-party vendors usually just increase the cost of the ticket with no extra value added.

For example, this popular GetYourGuide listing for an “Uffizi, Pitti Palace & Boboli Combined 5-Day Pass” is really just the Uffizi Passepartout — but for €20-some more than you would pay if you just bought your pass directly on the Uffizi website!

Accordingly, I generally recommend that you avoid purchasing your Uffizi Passepartout through a third-party vendor.

However, if you genuinely can’t figure out the confusing Uffizi website, then buying through a reseller is an alternative option for you. Check availability here:

Is the Uffizi Passepartout worth it?

So, the all-important question: is the Uffizi Passepartout worth buying?

Well, the honest answer is…it depends on your personal interests.

Here are my recommendations:

The Uffizi is a quintessential art museum, and I doubt you’ll enjoy it if art museums aren’t your jam. You can still buy individual tickets to Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, the archaeological museum, or the mosaic museum, if any of those sites are of particular interest to you.

It’s not possible to buy a ticket for only the Vasari Corridor — you will either need to purchase a combination ticket for the Uffizi and the Vasari Corridor (which costs €47), or the full Uffizi Passepartout (which costs €58). I think the additional sites included in the Passepartout are well worth the extra €11, so in this case you should just buy the Passepartout.

If you’re an art museum fan, then the Uffizi Passepartout is a great deal — you get to see the Uffizi, which is one of the world’s best-known art museums, as well as the Pitti Palace (which I like more!) and other great sites like the Boboli Gardens and the Oficio delle Pietre Dure.

And though I haven’t personally walked the Vasari Corridor yet, I would recommend buying the version of the Passepartout that includes access to the Corridor — it’s a unique experience that most visitors to Florence haven’t had!

Personally, I’m not wild about experiencing art museums with a guide — I generally like to walk through museums at my own pace and take in (or look up) information as I wish.

But I know that’s not everybody’s preference. Some people get a lot of value out of learning the context of a piece from a guide while standing in front of the art they’re talking about!

If that’s you, I don’t recommend buying the Uffizi Passepartout, since the pass doesn’t include any tours or guides. Instead, you should individually purchase guided tours (with tickets included) for the sites you’re interested in, like these:

• Uffizi Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Entry Ticket
• Guided Tour of Uffizi Gallery and Accademia Gallery (home of Michelangelo’s David)
• Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens Walking Tour

Final Thoughts

If you like art museums, or generally want to experience many of Florence’s most popular sites, the Uffizi Passepartout is a great deal.

In fact, even though I’m not personally wild about the Uffizi Gallery, I do recommend that most visitors to Florence consider buying the Uffizi Passepartout. The Uffizi is worth experiencing once, and several of the other sites included in the Passepartout are particularly wonderful.

Just be sure to purchase your Passepartout well in advance so you can snag an early entrance to the Uffizi and avoid some of the crowds!

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