Florence For Kids: Exploring Symbols and Legends
Explore Renaissance Florence on an interactive treasure hunt with a Context family expert
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Tour Details
About the Tour
- Private Tour
- $ 337
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Location
- Florence
Photos & Highlights
- Discover Florence's symbols using all your senses with interactive, family-friendly activities
- Led by a local historian or expert with inquiry-based learning techniques and trained to work with children
- Florence Duomo, Piazza della Repubblica, Piazza della Signoria, and Ponte Vecchio
Tour Description
Florence is a like cultural playground for kids, embedded with cherished symbols that pop up all over town, sometimes when least expected. During this 2-hour tour of Florence for kids we join a local historian specially trained in visual thinking strategies for an interactive scavenger hunt for the great symbols of Florence. During the walk we'll use these symbols—lilies, the Strozzi's moons, and many others—to understand the Renaissance and how art and imagery inscribed the city with meaning.
Florence for Kids
The path of the walk focuses on the historical center of the city, as every alley and street corner tells a different story. The expert leading this walk has been trained in an interactive, visual thinking strategies which, along with some helpful didactic materials, will encourage discussion and participation among the children in the family..
Florence Scavenger Hunt
Our docent will lead us through the city center pointing out key symbols of the city, including its famous lilies and the coats of arms of its most powerful families. Children, meanwhile, will need to keep their eyes out for examples. How many did they find? Did they see something else? Why do they think the city uses different symbols? We'll also encounter the beloved Porcellino (little pig), who stands guard at the town market and has become a veritable mascot of the city. No child visiting Florence can resist touching his golden snout at least once!
Looking for more family-friendly activities in Florence? Try our Florence Renaissance Tour for Kids or our Uffizi Tour for Kids.
This walk is an excellent way for families to build a knowledge base that will accompany them on their further explorations of the city. The city will become all the more familiar for everyone, after having been introduced to some of its most colorful characters and enduring legends.
Tell us about you
In order to plan the best possible experience for your children, it's helpful for us to have some background. Have they traveled to other countries in the past? If so, where? Have they studied any subjects in school that would relate to the walk? What are they most interested in? The more you can tell us, the better.
Due to the very interactive nature of this program and given the educational environment our expert aim to evoke, we adhere to a very strict maximum of 6 participants. Groups larger than 6 will need to book two separate walks that can run concurrently, but with different experts.
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Tour Experts
Monica
Monica completed her Ph.D in 2009 in history of art and architecture from the University of Virginia, specializing in the Italian Renaissance period. As a writer, she is interested in the literary culture of Florence as well as the city's art and architecture. Before coming to Florence, Monica lived in Rome, Venice, New York City, and Charlottesville, Virginia.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth recently received her MA in Florentine Renaissance art from Syracuse University in Florence. Her interests include women's history and women artists, particularly by women in convents. In addition to leading walks, she also lectures at various universities and institutions in Florence.
Valerie
Valerie received her BA with distinction in art history and museology at the University of Florence, focusing on the Renaissance art market. Although German, Valerie was born and raised in Rome, making her eager to build bridges across different cultures. She also works for the educational department of the state museums in Florence, where her mission is to communicate art and culture as a means of understanding the visual signs that surround us.
44 Reviews
Sally was fantastic! Our kids (aged 11, 7 and 4) loved their city tour with Sally. She was extremely informative and very cleverly built up the historical context of Florence for the kids in a fascinating and exciting way. They were totally engaged and asked loads of questions, which Sally happily and patiently answered! They particularly loved the visual treasure map she gave them asking them to find the clues as we walked around the city. Extremely knowledgeable my husband and I also learnt plenty of new facts about a city we had both visited a long tome ago! Very well done - thank you so much!
Helen
Apr. 10, 2019
This was the first thing we did in Florence and it really helped us to get a feel for the city! Valerie was so knowledgeable and really showed a love for the topic. The entire rest of the time we spent in Florence and even in other cities we remained aware of the symbols and overlooked signs. Our entire group, which ranged from grandparents to kids, left this tour more observant and with lots of new knowledge!
Allyson
Apr. 1, 2019
Molly found a way to engage our grandchild knowing what we had seen without going over old ground. Found that quite surprising.
Joseph
Feb. 20, 2019
Tour Experts
All Context Experts are scholars or specialists in their field.
Monica
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Elizabeth
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Valerie
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