How long do these places take to see, on average. Trying to plan my days.

The Duomo, Baptistry and Museum

The Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens

The Uffizi

you should be able to see these in two well planned days. make sure to get the Uffizi timed tickets, don't waste your time standing in line...

How many hours though, i'm seeing lots more stuff over a 3 day period. These ones seemed the most time consuming.

I think you can see the Duomo, Baptistry and Museum of the Duomo in under two hours. As to the Pitti Palace and Uffizi, it depends on how much you enjoy looking at art. Some people whiz in and out, glancing at the most famous pieces of artwork and can "see" the Uffizi in 30 minutes. I would plan on at least an hour and half in each art museum. The Boboli Gardens can be seen in around an hour at a leisurely pace.

The Duomo should take you about 30 minutes to an hour. The Baptistry, about 15 minutes. If you go up into the dome of the Duomo, that alone will take about an hour. Not sure which museum you are talking about. If you mean the Museum dell opera (pardon the spelling) that is right next to the Duomo, I would guess about an hour to an hour and a half. I "ran" through it in about 15 minutes to see the La Pieta while waiting for my husband but would have liked to have had much more time.

The Uffizi is hard to say as everyone has their own way of looking at art museums. My husband and I didn't particularly care for the Uffizi and only spent about an hour there. I'm sure an art afficiando would take a much longer time.

Don't know anything about the Pitti Palace or Boboli gardens.

We did go to the Mercado Nuovo (sp?) and really enjoyed it. It can be seen in an hour easily.

Another Uffizi-phobe!
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only art-lover who spends very little time in the Uffizi. We've had a little more stamina, about 90 minutes, then we run.
In the Bargello, on the other hand (smaller collection), I'm good for at least two hours, maybe more, I just stare and admire.

Boboli Gardens are a climb, and all steeply uphill. You can go for an hour, or for three, it's up to you.
Don't go loaded down with heavy totes.

At the Pitti, you choose which of the museums you want to see. I'd say 60-90 minutes for one.

Sorry, that was the Mercado Central -- not Nuovo.

Was just in Florence last week and Duomo, Baptistry and Museum were about1 1/2-2 hours. This included about 20 minutes viewing excavations of a church from the 5th century(I think)underneath the Duomo. The exterior of the Duomo is the highlight along with the bronze door of the Baptistry that face the Duomo. In addition, we also climbed the bell tower(15 minutes up, 15 minutes down)for a magnificent view of the city.

The Uffizi took us about 2 hours and I would recommend that you budget at least this amount of time. If you leave sooner there are plenty of things to do and pictures to take in that area. Please have your hotel reserve your tickets for you.

We did not see Pitti Palace or the gardens.

My wife and I just returned from a week in Florence. I should preface this by saying that we tend to take our time in museums, and I don't comprehend people who rush through just to say they've been there, but that's me.

We walked around the outside of the cathedral the includes the Duomo, and entered and walked through the cathedral itself, but did not climb the duomo or tower. That took half a day, but part was due to poor planning as we arrived before it was open and had to wait some time in line. The other half of the day we spent on the baptistry. The doors are impressive from the outside, and the inside is quite impressive. We sat down for a while so we could gaze at the ceilings. We also spent an enjoyable half day in the museum behind the Duomo. It is an interesting facility, and has some glorious art as well as interesting displays on the building of the Duomo.

We spent a full day at the Pitti palace and Boboli gardens. The palace has a lot of art displayed, but the palace itself is a jewel that should be enjoyed. I didn't enjoy the trek through the Boboli gardens as much, as it was a hot day, the the snack bar was closed for renovation. A walk up to Piazza Michaelangelo was far more interesting, although the Piazza itself is nothing more than a parking lot it has a great view, and there is an interesting old church just above it.

I would be tempted to skip the Uffizi in favor of the Accademia. The Uffizi has a ton of art, but much of it is poorly displayed, either hung so high or angled, or hidden behind fingerprinted plastic, that it is unviewable. It is almost always crowded, and you can't stand and enjoy a work without having three guided tours pass over and around you. Interestingly, the last two rooms, just before the sanck bar, had some glorious art, well presented, and were being ignored by the crowds, so don't miss those if you go. Until those rooms, we found ourselves almost rushing to be done with the experience, and would have been out withing two hours. The Accademia, by contrast, had well presented glorious works, and was relatively uncrowded. We were even able to sit and contemplate the David for quite a while.