Skip-the-Line: Medici Chapels Museum Ticket

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Duration: 1d
Location: Medici Chapels, Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini, 6, Florence, 50123, Italy | Florence, Italy


Category: Attractions

Highlights:
More time to explore with your Skip-the-Line ticket
“Sagrestia Nuova”—Michelangelo's first foray in architecture
Multi-colored interiors & imposing dome
Monuments dedicated to members of the Medici family
Funerary allegories of day, night, dawn & dusk

Inclusions:
Admission tickets
Skip-the-Line entrance to the Medici Chapels
Access to temporary exhibitions

Description:

Discover one of Florence's most charming architectural landmarks, the Medici Chapels. Your exclusive, skip-the-line access means you waste no time in line and enjoy as much as you wish exploring the chapels and admiring Michelangelo's exquisite sculptures.

Situated in the basilica of San Lorenzo—the private church of the Medici family—the Medici Chapels are 2 architectural treasures.

Bypass the queue outside and start your visit at Sagrestia Nuova (New Sacristy). This small room was designed by Michelangelo as a mortuary chapel for members of the Medici family, who were known as the most important art patrons of the Italian Renaissance. See the 2 large tombs of Lorenzo and Giuliano De’ Medici and admire the allegorical figures on top of them that represent night, day, dawn, and dusk.

Head to the octagonal Cappella dei Principi (Chapel of the Princes), which is surmounted by a tall dome and features polychrome marble and rich mosaics. The 6 marble tombs in the walls are empty because most of the Medici family are buried in the crypt beneath the basilica.