Make the most of your Florence experience and visit both the Accademia and the Uffizi Gallery, along with a classic walking tour of the city. Enter the Accademia with your tour guide and see the original statue of Michelangelo´s David and the Slaves, the Saint Matthew and the Pietà di Palestrina. See the remarkable sculptures and paintings by Michelangelo´s contemporaries and followers that will introduce you to the David, for a complete historic outline. Continue your walking tour and enjoy the magnificent view of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the cupola designed by Brunelleschi during the Renaissance, the Baptistery and Giotto´s Bell Tower. Next, you will visit Piazza della Signoria, home to the Palazzo Vecchio and decorated with beautiful statutes, before entering the Uffizi Gallery and viewing Ponte Vecchio with the lovely banks of the Arno River. At the present day the museum holds an extraordinary collection of paintings made by the major Italian and European artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Dürer, Caravaggio and many others.      more details