Reply #67: It floods at noon. Don't know about other times...I didn't wait around to find out.

[CTyankee]

I was suffocating from the crowd...Maybe early June is better...school might be out and early June is before lots of school kids and their families can get away...

Funny, I should talk. I'm going to Florence again in September and I know it will be packed with people. My only consolation is that I'll be at the Bargello, San Marco, the Brancacci Chapel, Santo Spirito, Santa Maria Novella and several palazzi and other churches where mercifully fewer people are aware of the art masterpieces therein...I think it's funny that Americans think the only things they "must see" in Florence are the David at the Accademia and a couple of Botticelli at the Uffizi...