Start with a welcome glass of prosecco and then step back in time to a sordid past woven in hidden alleys on the Renaissance Secrets & Scandals: Florence Unveiled Tour.

What's included:

• Welcome glass of prosecco
• Highlights of the private Scandals & Secrets: Florence Unveiled tour include:See Florence in all her glory, the Renaissance city as you’ve never seen her before!
• Draw back the curtains on the boudoir of this city’s past, where the world’s oldest occupation was its biggest business
• Hear flabbergasting tales with secret histories from the resplendent to the repulsive
• Discover how renowned artists fell prey to anonymous betrayals
• From Popes to peasants, to prominent psychopaths – discover the social, political and religious terrors rising from alchemy, pharmacy and witchery
• Find out about the shocking (and sometimes vile) potions used to drug, cure, poison and maim
• Spy the at times cheeky, often crude messages built into Florence’s greatest monuments
• Pass the sites of massacres, where bodies were tossed into an ancient well still exiting today, and where superstitious locals still fear to step foot

Length: 2.5 hours

Get the scoop behind the shady secrets of the Medici family’s ascent to power. Witness generations of moral bankruptcy, corrupt money handlings, and crooked dealings with pirates. Learn all about the tension between the Pope and the Jewish ghetto. Visit the historic red light district of Florence and a black market brimming with drugs. Opium, Belladonna, and some of the vilest poisons you can imagine, Florence had it all. And we’ll show you the alchemy and witchcraft they sprang from.

Walk in the footsteps of Dante Alighieri and visit the hidden district of San Martino. Learn how often political power shifted in Florence’s Golden Age. Visit Florence’s first orphanage. Get up close and personal with some of the most vulgar statues and paintings of the Renaissance. These sometimes cheeky, sometimes outright crude messages are in Florence’s greatest monuments. We’ll take you to Leonardo da Vinci’s old home, where you’ll learn all about the rumors that drove him to self-exile.

 This tour is suitable for over 18's only.