Skip-the-Line Tickets to Santa Croce Basilica Complex
Florence
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Florence
Skip the line and uncover Santa Croce's rich history with masterpieces by Cimabue, Giotto, and Brunelleschi, and get an audio guide with a ticket upgrade.
Tickets for this activity are non-refundable. If you are not satisfied with your experience, please contact us to cancel your booking.
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An exhilarating experience with your imagination guiding you through the cloisters and the chapels of the complex, this skip the line ticket would ensure you explore all in a day while saving you from the ticketing queue.
Arrive at the visitor entrance of Santa Basilica Croce, situated towards its north in Largo Bargellini and present your tickets to directly enter the complex.
The complex is a mosaic of Italian Gothic architecture with the basilica, the Pazzi Chapel, and the Medici chapel reflecting centuries of cultural preservation. The Refectory retells stories of shared meals among the friars while hosting masterpieces such as Donatella’s St Louis of Toulouse and Taddeo Gaddi’s Tree of Life and Last Supper. Exploring the complex further you would also get a chance to pay your respects to the resting places of legends such as Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Niccolò Machiavelli on this tour.
Santa Basilica Croce exhibits a standout feature of displaying evolution of various art themes such as Taddeo Gaddi’s Last Supper and Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper painted 200 years apart from each other. While admiring these masterpieces, do not forget to witness Pio Fedi’s Freedom of Poetry, a marble statue symbolizing freedom of expression. It is believed that Freedom of Poetry inspired the Statue of Liberty of New York!