Audio tours in Florence
Suggested plan for Florence
Doing every Trevurs tour in Florence takes about 4 h 15 min in total. A relaxed way to split it:
No fixed schedule: start whenever you want, skip stops, or spread a tour over several days.
Florence on a budget
The Trevurs app is free and has 3 audio tours in Florence: 1 h 1 min of narration across 30 stops and 11 km of walking routes. Download them over wifi and listen offline, with no mobile data. Entry tickets to museums, churches or monuments along the way are not included. Premium, from USD 1.99, adds unlimited offline downloads, every tour and no ads.
Florence at your own pace
Each tour starts at stop 1 and you go stop by stop at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop. No booking and no fixed start time, and it works offline once downloaded.
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The Medici: Money, Art and Poison
Starts at stop 1, “Ashes Underfoot” (map) · 16 min of audio · 4.4 km (~1 h 5 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
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Michelangelo and the Renaissance in One Walk
Starts at stop 1, “The Man Who Never Existed” (map) · 25 min of audio · 3.5 km (~55 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
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Florence: Dante and the City He Sent to Hell
Starts at stop 1, “My Beautiful San Giovanni” (map) · 20 min of audio · 3.1 km (~45 min on foot) · ~1 h 15 min in total
In one day you can do The Medici: Money, Art and Poison (~1 h 30 min), Michelangelo and the Renaissance in One Walk (~1 h 30 min) and Florence: Dante and the City He Sent to Hell (~1 h 15 min): about 4 h 15 min of touring with audio and walking. That covers every Trevurs tour in Florence.
Why an audio tour
- ✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
- ✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
- ✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
- ✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
- ✓ Works offline once downloaded
Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.