Florence Travel Guides
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How to get tickets to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and skip the line: 4 best ways for all budgets
Four best ways to get tickets to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence: official entry tickets, Uffizi tickets for kids, realiable third party ticket providers and Uffizi Tours with entrance tickets. The Uffizi Gallery are one of the most visited art museums in Italy and securing tickets ahead of time is paramount if you are to avoid long hours of standing in line at the ticket office on the day of your visit. Thankfully, getting skip-the-line tickets for the Uffizi is relaqtively easy and you don’t have to necessarily break the bank to get them either. The key to securing tickets for the Uffizi is booking early: if you book well…
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Outdoor swimming pools in Florence you’ll love this summer
A selections of the best swimming pools in Florence for hot summer days: pools, sports club, and water parks perfect for families. Florence can get really hot in summer and having access to a pool can make a real lifesaver. When the heat of July and August descends onto the city, sightseeing during the day can become impossible but, thankfully, Florence has lovely outdoors pools you can enjoy without advance planning and with kids! I have discovered the pleasures of Florence’s pools during a heatwave one summer: as 42C degrees burned the streets, we found refuge in pools that were nothing less than blissful. These are our tried and tested…
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Fall in love with Florence with this delightful walking itinerary through Florence city center to see the best of the city
Discover the best of Florence in your own time with this easy to follow, relax, beautiful itinerary though Florence city center (with attraction info) Florence is an incredibly walkable city. Despite being bigger in size than many other Tuscan towns, Florence has a very compact historic center with most of Florence’s top attractions clustered so close to one another, you are hardly ever more than ten minutes walk from any of them, no matter where in the city center you are! This is one of the many reasons why Florence city center is UNESCO World Heritage Site as a whole, its many landmark coming together to form something unique, with…
