Sla de rij over: rondleiding door de Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

We took several tours in Italy this past 2 weeks and by far, our tour guide here was the best. On time, respectful, answered all the questions and provided an appropriate level of detail on the artwork, etc... A true professional.

We hadden een geweldige ervaring met onze privétour in de Academia Gallery. Het museum is enorm en staat vol met fantastische kunst. Onze privégids, Giacomo, leidde ons op een zeer ervaren manier en zorgde ervoor dat we alle hoogtepunten zagen. Hij was zeer goed geïnformeerd over de kunst en de stijlen en technieken van de kunstenaars. We hebben zoveel geleerd door met hem te touren en door de kunst te zien met zijn uitleg van de betekenis. Het was een geweldige ervaring. We hebben drie verschillende privétours gedaan met Ciao Florence en ze waren allemaal echt geweldig. Giacomo die ons twee dagen later door zowel Academia als Ufizzi heeft geleid, was uitstekend.

My partner and I did this Ciao Florence tour of the Accademia this morning and were very disappointed. Among other things, the guide: 1. clearly had very little knowledge of art history and was relying on visitors having even less or no knowledge. Stopping in front of various paintings, she was only able to tell us surface level facts such as that the color red symbolizes passion and green is for hope. In another example, she stopped in front of a Stradivarius violin and literally said, "this is a very old violin made by Stradivarius". 2. blatantly stated incorrect facts, such as that "mathematical perspective was invented in Florence in 1420" when what she probably meant was that Renaissance artists in Florence (notably Brunelleschi beginning ~1420) were the first to introduce geometric and other techniques developed by ancient Greek mathematicians and already seen in Greek and Roman sculpture into two-dimensional art. 3. asked me to convert 5 meters, the approximate height of the statue of David, into feet, and, after I easily did so at her request due to my knowledge of the metric system, turned to another visitor and joked that she needed to do this because Americans do not understand the metric system. Further, the tour was advertised as 75 minutes when in reality it was barely 45 minutes. I raise this because the tour was not cheap. However, after 45 minutes and having learned nothing, we were ready for it to end. We promptly walked back to the start of the museum and walked through it all over again, this time reading the various plaques and getting much more out of the experience. I wish I got the name of the guide - based on other reviews, it seems like other travelers with better guides had a much better experience.