2. Purchase your tickets online via the Galleria dell'Accademia's official website . Keep in mind

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Chances are if you’re cheap one way standby airline tickets visiting Florence, you’ve heard about the  Galleria dell’Accademia . It’s one of the most renowned museums in all of Italy and filled with priceless works of Renaissance art and sculpture.  The ‘Gallery of the Academy’ was founded cheap one way standby airline tickets in 1784 as part of the  Accademia di Belle Arti  (Academy of Fine Arts) where the artwork cheap one way standby airline tickets served as teaching tools, and students of the Academy were allowed use of the works of art as models.
The centerpiece of the Gallery of the Academy is Michelangelo’s  David,  sculpted between the years 1501 and 1504.  This magnificent marble statue stands in the Tribune, a domed space designed specifically for  David  by architect Emilio de Fabris.
What we find interesting about this museum is that it’s still physically connected to the Academy of Fine Arts, a school that has been in operation for centuries.  (It was originally cheap one way standby airline tickets founded in 1562, by Cosimo I de Medici, as the  Accademia delle Arti del Disegno , or the Academy of Art and Design).  During cheap one way standby airline tickets our recent visit, we noticed that just to the left of the entrance to the  Galleria cheap one way standby airline tickets dell’Accademia  is an entrance to the actual  Accademia .  We took a quick look around, walked through the courtyard and got a glimpse into the studios of students busy with their projects.
Lines for tickets at the Accademia cheap one way standby airline tickets are almost always long (3-4 hours).  To avoid the wait, consider making reservations well in advance of your trip (a month or more prior to your visit).  Here are a few options:
1.  When booking your hotel room, ask the concierge at your hotel if he/she can make museum reservations for you.  Some hotels offer this service for free; others may charge a booking fee.  Note:  After making our room reservations online, we were contacted by the hotel’s owner, asking if he could make any museum reservations on our behalf.  He specifically mentioned the  Accademia (and the Uffizi ) .
2.  Purchase your tickets online via the  Galleria dell’Accademia’s official website . Keep in mind that there is a surcharge for booking online (currently 4€), but you’ll be able to choose a definite entry time and avoid the long wait at the museum.
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