HOW ARRIVE TO MICHELANGELO'S DAVID
(ACCADEMIA GALLERY):
Exit your room of Home in Palace and go toward the city center and after 250 meters turn right into Via Cesare Battisti, after 200 meters turn right into Piazza San Marco. Total distance about 450 meters from your room of Home in Palace.

HISTORY OF MICHELANGELO'S DAVID (ACCADEMIA GALLERY):
The Gallery is particularly famous for its sculptures by Michelangelo: the Prisoners, the St.Matthew and, especially, the statue of David which was transferred here, to the specially designed tribune, from Piazza della Signoria in 1873. In the adjacent rooms, which were part of two former convents, important works of art were collected here in the 19th century from the Academy of Design, the Academy of Fine Arts and from suppressed convents.

The holdings comprise mostly religious paintings by major artists working in and around Florence between the mid-13th and the late 16th centuries.

The collection is especially important for its gold-ground paintings. In the first floor rooms is a sequence of splendid late-gothic polyptychs, complete in all their parts. There is also a collection of sculptures in plaster by the 19th-century sculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni, besides a section of Russian icons. Recently the Gallery has been further enriched by the important collection of old musical instruments from the Cherubini Conservatory, the Department of Musical Instruments.


INFORMATIONS ABOUT MICHELANGELO'S DAVID
(ACCADEMIA GALLERY):
OPEN:
From Tuesday to Sunday, 8,15 AM -6,50 PM
CLSOSED:
Every Monday, New Year's Day, 1 May, Christmas

Cost:
Ticket full price: € 6.50
Ticket reduced: € 3.25
Free Tickets
The ticket is also valid for the Department of Musical Instruments

Visits prenotations:
Firenze Musei, Tel: 055 294883
prenotation cost: € 4,00