Getting tickets to Boboli Gardens is easier than you can imagine. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to do it. I have been to Florence (and Boboli Gardens) countless times and in this post I will highlight the various options available, allowing you to pick the one that best suits your interests and travel budget.
Situated directly behind the Pitti Palace, the Boboli Gardens is the prototype of the Italian-style gardens. The very ‘green architecture’ of the garden inspired the Parisian heart of Versailles.
An area of 45,000 square meters, the open-air museum garden is filled with grottos (built by artist, architect and sculptor Bernardo Buontalenti), fountains, pergolas, marble statues and even a small lake.
From botany and architecture to the landscape and magnificent sculptures, the Boboli Gardens are indeed a wonderful place to add to your Firenze must-visit list.
By visiting you can get a glimpse of life at court, and enjoy the Viottolone, a breathtaking, steep-sloping avenue lined with cypresses and statuettes. Boboli Gardens are so unique that they are UNESCO inscribed as a World Heritage Site.
Traveling to Florence soon? These are the best options for tickets to Boboli Gardens:
Now, read on for a guide to purchasing tickets to Boboli Gardens and for a lot more useful information that will help you plan your visit and have a wonderful time.
How To Get Tickets To Boboli Gardens
During peak season, purchasing your Boboli Gardens tickets in advance is highly advisable. If you do not have pre-purchased tickets, you run the risk of not being able to enter on the day you wish.
As the Boboli Gardens are a continuation of the Pitti Palace, you may find a lot of tickets online that combine the two. You should visit both monuments as the Pitti Palace does indeed offer a lot of context to the Boboli Gardens, as it was the residence for the Grand-duca Cosimo I de Medici in the Renaissance era.
Finally, continue reading to discover how to secure your Boboli Gardens tickets.
Get your tickets to Boboli Gardens via the official website
This is Boboli Gardens tickets official website. Buying tickets on the official museum site is usually the way to go, as long as you are set on the date and time of your visit.
Boboli Gardens tickets sold on the official website have two different prices, one for the low tourist season, and one for the peak tourist season. Prices are are as follows:
Boboli Gardens Tickets Low Season (10 January to 20 February and 10 November to 20 December)
FULL – €9 (€6 + €3 booking fee)
REDUCED – €5 (€2 + €3 booking fee), available for EU citizens between 18 and 25 years old
CUMULATIVE BOBOLI GARDENS AND PITTI PALACE – €17 (€14 + €3 booking fee)
Boboli Gardens Tickets Peak Season (21 December to 9 January and 21 February to 9 November)
FULL – €13 (€10 + €3 booking fee)
REDUCED – €5 (€2 + €3 booking fee), available for EU citizens between 18 and 25 years old
CUMULATIVE BOBOLI GARDENS AND PITTI PALACE – €25 (€22 + €3 booking fee)
Free admission to the Boboli Gardens is granted to minors (children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult) and to disabled visitors and the person accompanying them. People eligible for free admission are required to obtain a free ticket upon presentation of a valid identity document.
The €3 booking fee is also applied to visitors that are eligible for free admission.
Getting tickets via the official site is fairly easy. Once you click on the ticket link, another page will open up.
A small bar on the upper part of the page will open a calendar – click on that to select the date of your visit. Once you do that, the page will show you all the available time slots. Pick the one that suits you the most. Once you pay, you will get an order confirmation email and your voucher.
Print your voucher and on the day of your visit bring it to the ticket office no less than 15 minutes before your entry time. You may not be allowed to enter if you arrive later than this.
With any ticket to the Boboli Gardens, you can also access the Garden of Villa Bardini for free.
Official Boboli Gardens tickets can’t be canceled or modified.
Get a Passepartout ticket
Another option to get Boboli Gardens tickets is the Passepartout ticket available through the official website.
This ticket is valid for five days from the first use and allows you to visit the Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, the National Archeology Museum and Museo dell’Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
The first museum you’ll have to visit is the Uffizi Gallery (you must book a time slot for that), then you can visit the other museums without specific reservations.
The Passepartout ticket can be obtained on the official website. Select the date for which you need it, scroll down to find the Uffizi and click on that. Another page will open up for the tickets. Click on “reduced and combo” and you will see the option to pick the Passepartout ticket.
The price of the Passepartout ticket is €38 in the peak season, and €18 in the low season. Free Passepartout tickets are available, but there is an online booking fee of €4.
Buy your Boboli Gardens tickets on third-party sites
Countless third-party booking websites offer skip-the-line mobile Boboli Gardens tickets. They are more expensive than tickets bought on the official site (it’s a matter of a few euros) but the conditions are also different.
For example, you get free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience and a customer service active 24/7 and in a language of your choice, even on WhatsApp.
My favorite third party booking sites for plain tickets are GetYourGuide or Tiqets. Both include instant confirmation through a mobile ticket, and allow you to use an app where you can store all your tickets and tour reservations and via which you even get a reminder of upcoming activities.
Get your tickets on GetYourGuide.
Get your tickets on Tiqets.
Join a guided tour of the Boboli Gardens
GetYourGuide has reasonable pricing for tours of the Boboli Gardens. Lasting from 1.5 hours for the visit of just the gardens, to a few hours, some include skip-the-line entry tickets and even guided tours to the Pitti Palace and Palatine Gallery.
Perhaps the most useful and helpful aspect of GetYourGuide is the option to read people’s reviews of the tours. This way you will know what other visitors before you thought of the tour and what to expect.
Tours bought on GetYourGuide can be cancelled 24 hours before the visit and be fully refunded.
I recommend this Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens and Palatina Gallery Tour. It’s an excellent tour that also goes to Boboli Gardens and the Palatine Gallery. It lasts three full hours.
There’s also this Florence: Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens Private Tour – a great option if you’d rather have a private tour with a guide just for you.
Finally, there’s this Boboli Gardens Guided Tour. It is the best option if all you want is a tour of the gardens and want to experience the rest of the nearby attractions on your own.
Get the Firenzecard
Another way of accessing Boboli Gardens is the Firenzecard. This official museum pass gives you access to many attractions in Florence, and that includes Boboli Gardens.
The card costs €85 and is valid for 72 hours from the moment you start using it. It’s actually a great money saver if you manage to visit lots of attractions during those 72 hours.
Keep in mind that in many cases you’ll need to book a time slot for your visit separately, on the official site of the attraction.
The Firenzecard can be bought via the official website or at the ticket kiosks around Florence. If you get it online, you can upload it on your smartphone or print the voucher you’ll get via email.
Get combined tickets to Boboli Gardens and another attraction
If you don’t want to get the Firenzecard, but are keen on visiting various places in Florence other than Boboli Gardens, you can consider getting a combined ticket for Boboli Gardens and another attraction.
Most of the time, a combined ticket is actually also a good way of saving money.
There are all sorts of combined tickets. The following are just some of those you can easily get online.
Boboli Gardens and Accademia Gallery tickets – the best option if you also want to see the famous Michelangelo’s David.
Boboli Gardens and Palazzo Vecchio tickets – perfect if you also want to see Palazzo Vecchio one of the most important historic palaces in Florence.
Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Boboli and Accademia Gallery Tickets – all the tickets to the most important attractions in Florence in one place.
Uffizi Gallery and Boboli Gardens tickets – a fantastic option if you also want to visit the Uffizi Gallery.
Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens tickets – three incredible attractions in one place.
Pitti Palace, Boboli and Bardini Gardens tickets – a great option to see these attractions that are all close to one another.
Palazzo Pitti, Palatine Gallery and Boboli Gardens tickets – again, you get to see attractions that are all in the same location.
Get your tickets at Boboli Gardens ticket office
Finally, you can also buy your tickets at Boboli Gardens ticket office. The main issue if you want to get tickets in person is that you may find that there aren’t any available tickets for the next time slots, meaning your wait time to enter may get long, depending on what is available.
I still prefer getting tickets online to avoid any lines, but this is still an option if you are flexible and if you don’t want to pay the €3 online booking fee.
Tickets can be bought at one of these locations:
The ticket office at the Uffizi (this is only a pre-sale service);
The ticket office at Pitti Palace;
The ticket office at the National Archaeological Museum of Florence in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 9b;
The ticket office at the Orsanmichele Museum in Via de’ Calzaiuoli;
The various ticket offices in all the State museums in Florence, such as the National Museum of Bargello located in Via del Proconsolo 4.
Other Useful Information
Official price of tickets to Boboli Gardens
As I have explained before, there is a variation in the price of the tickets depending on whether you wish to visit in the low season or in the peak season.
Prices are as follows:
Low Season
FULL – €9 (€6 + €3 booking fee)
REDUCED – €5 (€2 + €3 booking fee), available for EU citizens between 18 and 25 years old
CUMULATIVE BOBOLI GARDENS AND PITTI PALACE – €17 (€14 + €3 booking fee)
Peak Season
FULL – €13 (€10 + €3 booking fee)
REDUCED – €5 (€2 + €3 booking fee), available for EU citizens between 18 and 25 years old
CUMULATIVE BOBOLI GARDENS AND PITTI PALACE – €25 (€22 + €3 booking fee)
Disabled visitors and visitors under the age of 18 can enter for free. The €3 online booking fee is applicable even to disabled visitors and minors.
Modifications to the reservation and refunds
Should you buy your tickets to Boboli Gardens via the official website, these can’t be modified or cancelled once you have paid – in other words, you won’t be given a refund if you can’t go or wish to change the date of your visit.
For more flexibility, you may want to get your tickets on a third-party booking site. Most allow modifications or cancellations up to 24 hours before the scheduled visit.
Is Boboli Gardens free?
Boboli Gardes is not free to visit. However, free admission is available to anyone who is under 18 years old upon showing proof of ID (children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult), and to disabled visitors and a person accompanying them.
If you get your free ticket online, the €3 online booking fee applies also to free visits.
Boboli Gardens hours
Opening every day at 8:15 am, the Boboli Gardens’ closing time differs depending on the season.
Closing times are as follows:
January, February, November and December: 4:30 pm.
March and October: 5:30 pm. End of March, April, May September and October (with daylight savings hours): 6:30 pm
June, July and August: 7:10 pm.
The last admission to the Boboli Gardens is always one hour before closing.
In any case, make sure to check the timings on the official website for the day you wish to visit since they are subject to change.
On the first and last Monday of the month and on 25 December the Boboli Gardens are closed.
If avoiding crowds while you are at the Boboli Gardens is important to you, then you’ll want to time your visit in the morning and on a weekday. Visitor numbers grow as the day goes on, so getting there first thing in the morning is the best approach. Weekends are quite busy.
Toilets and other facilities at Boboli Gardens
Toilets are available at the Annalena entrance (Via Romana); near the Amphitheater; in the Porcelain Museum (which is however closed for renovations); near the Garden of the “Hair Washer” Statue.
Accessible toilets are located inside the internal courtyard of Palazzo Pitti and on the left side of the Amphitheater – you can access the latter one through a stairlift operated by a member of staff.
Inside the Boboli Gardens you will find drinking water fountains near the Garden of Madama, of the Knight, the Grotto of Adam and Eve, and the Meadow of Columns. However, the gardens are immense and you should definitely bring a water bottle for your visit.
Accessibility
There are two accessible entrances to Boboli Gardens. One is located in Pitti Square, on the left side of the courtyard; the other is in Porta Romana Square.
The website recommends that disabled visitors are accompanied by someone. That’s because the clay and gravel soil, which is often sloping, make it difficult to climb and descend.
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