Travel tips for visiting Florence
Planning your dream trip to Italy can be a difficult task so we have put together a series of travel tips articles to help solve that problem and get the most out of your stay.
Florence, small and immense and at the same time, is an open air museum grown more beautiful over the centuries; a treasure chest enclosed by ancient walls that safeguard grandiose masterworks of art and architecture so close that you can almost touch them.
From its magnificent position, the city sits at the feet of the Appennine Mountains in a valley that opens onto the Arno Plain. Its buildings and monuments tell stories of art, war and life. Its streets, today crowded with tourists, are the same ones through which Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dante and many other of the most illustrious minds of all time, threaded their way.
Florence is a city rich in places to discover but its dimensions are actually quite small. If time is short, 1 or 2 days are enough to explore a large part of the city's marvels.
Florence, a city at the heart of Tuscany, a place where the words magnificent, awesome and breathtaking only scratch the surface. Florence was the home of the Medicis and the birthplace of the Renaissance. Both have left a stunning heritage.
The city is full of beauty, but if you don't have much time, how can you spend the perfect three-day weekend in Florence? We have a few ideas.
A few days spent in Florence rewards you with some of the world's best art and architecture with the city considered by many to be the cradle of the Renaissance.
No matter how many times you travel to wonderful Florence you'll come across new treasures to marvel at. Let us guide you through the city with our countdown and useful tips on the best that Florence has to offer.
Take in the following attractions as you wander through its narrow cobbled streets where little has changed since the Middle Ages.
In Dan Brown's thriller Inferno, a crazy billionaire decides to solve the world's population problem by releasing a deadly plague using the work of Dante as inspiration. Robert Langdon is the only person who can solve the mystery.
Filmed by Ron Howard and set in Florence Italy, Langdon is being chased by assassins, members of the World Health Organization, and mercenaries who want this as a biological weapon.