Explore Medieval Florence on our San Marco Museum Tour:
Did you know that Florence has an extensive medieval legacy that complements its Renaissance richness and beauty? After exploring Florence’s main museums, let us take you into a smaller yet charming museum – the San Marco Museum. This peaceful place started as a Dominican monastery where monks lived, worked, and made beautiful art. On our San Marco Museum Tour, we’ll show you around the monks’ old living spaces and explain how famous artists like Fra Angelico turned plain walls into stunning works of art that you can still see today.
As we walk through the monastery’s quiet halls, we’ll step into the world of the medieval monks who lived there. We’ll tell you about life in the monastery and point out the little details in Fra Angelico’s work that most people walk right past. We’ll also visit the library, where you can see beautiful old books that monks wrote by hand hundreds of years ago. Overall it’s a wonderful tour at a somewhat underrated museum in Florence.
Tour Highlights:
- Admire Fra Angelico’s frescoes in their original setting.
- Explore medieval monastic life and its art.
- Visit a historic library with hand-written books.
- Discover this site’s role in Florence’s history.
Book this tour as a private tour:
Why should you book our San Marco Museum Tour?
By visiting this charming museum with one of our guides, you’ll gain a deeper understanding as to what makes this place truly special. Our guides know how to bring San Marco’s quiet halls to life, sharing both expert knowledge about its history and its fascinating human stories. They will help you notice things you might miss on your own. This way, you can truly connect with San Marco’s history and enjoy a meaningful and memorable visit.
Important details:
Tour type: This tour is available mainly as a private tour.
Duration: The tour lasts approximately 2 hours.
Guide: One of our professional, licensed tour guides is looking forward to guiding you and to showing you the beauty of Florence.
Children: This tour is excellent for children who love stories, secrets and history.
What to wear: Comfortable shoes! Also, always check the weather forecast to bring the right clothes.
Interested in a public tour?
Upon request we can publish this tour as a public tour to reduce the tour’s price per person. A public tour costs 40 euros per participant (not including the entrance ticket price) and requires a minimum of 5 participants.
Tour conditions:
Minimum number of participants:
This tour takes place mostly as a private tour but can also be opened as a public tour upon request. It will take place as a public tour if at least 5 people are registered. In case there aren’t enough participants, we will unfortunately cancel the tour and issue you a full refund.
Cancellation policy:
You can cancel your booking up to 48 hours in advance. If you cancel your booking less than 48 hours before the tour we won’t be able to issue a refund. Certain exceptions apply such as emergency situations. Please note, we reserve the right to cancel the tour up to 48 hours in advance too. We will do so if our guide is unavailable due to a sudden change or if we do not have the minimum number of participants required for the tour.
Pictures and videos:
Please be aware that we might take photos and videos during the tour. If you don’t want to appear in any Secret Vienna promotional pictures, please let us know by sending us a message.
Copyrights:
The content of the tour is produced by our hard working team of licensed guides. Therefore, recording the tour or taking pictures of artefacts and material used by the guide is strictly forbidden.
