Florence

Tuscany

The Renaissance, still standing

Art

Architecture

About Florence

Florence is the city where the Renaissance began, compact enough to cross on foot in half an hour along the river Arno.

Brunelleschi's dome rises over a skyline that has barely changed in five centuries, and the Uffizi, Michelangelo's David and the Medici palaces hold more masterpieces per street than almost anywhere. Across the Ponte Vecchio, the Oltrarno keeps its workshops of leather, gold and restorers.

It's beautiful and very crowded, best early in the morning, and the Tuscan hill towns are an easy day trip away.

Eat bistecca alla fiorentina, a lampredotto sandwich from a street cart, and drink the Chianti from the hills next door.

Get to Florence

Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.

Buses from Florence

Day trips from Florence

Half day
Chianti
~45 min
The wine hills between Florence and Siena, crossed by a winding road past castles, cypresses and estates that open their cellars for tastings, with Greve and Radda as the villages to stop in.
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Pisa
~1 h €7 one way
The Leaning Tower, the cathedral and the baptistery on a single lawn, the Square of Miracles and a UNESCO site, in a calm university town on the Arno.
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Day trip
San Gimignano
~1 h , ~1 h 30 min
The 'medieval Manhattan': a hilltop town where 14 of the tower-houses built by rival families still stand above the vineyards, a UNESCO site.
Day trip
Siena
~1 h 15 min
Florence's old rival, a Gothic city of brick lanes around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, where the Palio horse race is run every 2 July and 16 August. The striped marble cathedral is one of Italy's finest.
Day trip
Val d'Orcia
~1 h 45 min
The Tuscany of postcards and a UNESCO landscape: bare rolling hills lined with cypresses, the ideal Renaissance town of Pienza, Brunello wine in Montalcino and a village square that is a thermal pool at Bagno Vignoni.