Things to do
Museums and art
Give the Uffizi a proper slice of the day, then look at the Etruscan rooms in the hill towns.
Florence will fill a week if you let it. I would still leave time for a smaller museum in a town you are already visiting. The rooms are quieter, and you are often looking at things that came out of the ground just down the road.
The Uffizi, Florence
A collection to enjoy, not to race through. Book ahead, and give yourself a generous slice of the day. The gallery has a ramp and a lift, and more access notes on its own site.
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Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, Volterra
Volterra’s great Etruscan collection, with hundreds of funerary urns and the slender bronze Ombra della sera.
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Lucca, in the streets and in the towers
Lucca is as much an open-air museum as a set of galleries. Climb Torre Guinigi if you like a view, then walk the walls.
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Cortona’s MAEC and the Etruscan museum at Chiusi are also well worth it if you are in the south-east.
The Village Finder has a Museums filter under the map. A direct link to that filter is not available yet, so this opens the map and you can tap the filter there. Open the Village Finder