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105 places

Firenze Rafting €

Two hours on the Arno, launching from the beach under Torre di San Niccolo and passing beneath the bridge everybody else is standing on.

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San Niccolo
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Kayaking with Firenze Rafting €€

One small inflatable kayak each, so you paddle yourself down the Arno instead of sitting in a raft with seven other people and a guide.

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San Niccolo
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August 2026
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'O Munaciello €€

One of the first places to bring Neapolitan pizza to Florence, now past twenty years old, in a large and deliberately loud room on Via Maffia.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Alla Vecchia Bettola €

A loud trattoria on the corner of Piazza Tasso with marble-topped communal tables, a menu written on butcher's paper each day, and the penne that everyone in the room has ordered.

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San Frediano
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August 2026
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Angel Roofbar €€€

A rooftop terrace above Piazza della Repubblica with cocktails, a DJ later, and a view straight across the roofs to the dome.

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Duomo
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August 2026
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Antica Trattoria da Tito €

A trattoria on Via San Gallo open since 1913, with graffiti from floor to ceiling and waiters who tease the room as a matter of principle.

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San Marco
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August 2026
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Babae €€

A restaurant on Via di Santo Spirito with a working wine window, which for one hour each evening hands glasses of wine through a hatch in the wall to whoever rings the bell.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Badia a Passignano

A fortified abbey standing alone among Chianti vineyards, with a Ghirlandaio Last Supper inside and cypress avenues around it.

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Outside the centre
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Badiani €€

Out on Viale dei Mille, away from everything, and the reason to go is Buontalenti: an egg and cream flavour invented in Florence that most visitors never hear about.

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Campo di Marte
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August 2026
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Berbere €€

Sourdough pizza cut into slices before it reaches the table, with seasonal toppings added raw, made for sharing rather than for one person one pizza.

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San Frediano
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August 2026
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Birreria Art. 17 €€

A craft beer bar on Borgo la Croce named after the article of the Italian constitution that guarantees the right to assemble peacefully.

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Sant'Ambrogio
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August 2026
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Buca dell'Orafo €€€

A cellar dining room down a flight of steps under the arcade behind Ponte Vecchio, in the quarter where the city's goldsmiths worked.

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Centro
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August 2026
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Caffetteria delle Oblate €

The cafe on the top floor of the public library, with a terrace facing Brunelleschi's dome at close range, for the price of a coffee.

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Centro
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August 2026
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Carabe €

Sicilian gelato and granita in Florence, made by a family from Sicily since 1980, a few steps from the Accademia.

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San Marco
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August 2026
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Carapina €€

The gelateria that changed the standard in Florence, opened in 2008, and the one that brought back covered metal tubs instead of piled up displays.

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Santa Croce
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August 2026
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Casa del Vino €

A wood-panelled wine shop behind the Mercato Centrale where you stand at the counter with a glass and a crostino and the owners keep the conversation going.

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San Lorenzo
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August 2026
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Cascata dell'Abbraccio

A waterfall in the Mugello where the stream wraps around the rock, reached by a short walk from the village and cold enough to swim in.

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Outside the centre
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August 2026
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Cascata dell'Acquacheta €€

A waterfall in the Apennines north east of Florence that Dante put in the Inferno, reached on foot from San Godenzo through beech woods.

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Outside the centre
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August 2026
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Chalet Fontana €€

A literary cafe founded in 1896 on the hill road to Piazzale Michelangelo, with a garden, a vegetable plot and a restaurant behind it.

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Oltrarno
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August 2026
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Chiostro dello Scalzo €€

A small cloister painted entirely in grey monochrome by Andrea del Sarto, free, open only on certain days, and known almost exclusively to art historians.

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San Marco
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Cucina Pietraforte €

A kitchen named after the sandstone Florence is built from, cooking the city's own dishes rather than the ones visitors expect.

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Outside the centre
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Ditta Artigianale Lungarno €€

The riverside branch of the roastery that taught Florence to care about filter coffee, with a terrace and a long brunch menu.

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Lungarno
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August 2026
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Ditta Artigianale Piazza Ferrucci €€

The riverside branch of the roastery that taught Florence to care about filter coffee, with a garden terrace, a long brunch menu and cocktails after dark.

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Piazza Ferrucci
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August 2026
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Enoteca Alla Sosta dei Papi €€

A wine bar on Borgo la Croce where a glass of house wine costs about three euro and arrives with crostini, and locals refill bottles from the vats.

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Sant'Ambrogio
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August 2026
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Erta Canina

A steep walled lane climbing out of San Niccolo through olive terraces, with a gap in the wall halfway up that frames the whole city.

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San Niccolo
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Fermento 1889 €€

A pizzeria on Borgo San Frediano built around the flour rather than the topping, with doughs blended and balanced as the main event.

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San Frediano
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August 2026
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Floret €€

A cafe on the first floor of the LuisaViaRoma shop, under tropical plants and Patricia Urquiola furniture, serving juices, bowls and organic food.

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Centro
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August 2026
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Fuori Porta €€

A wine bar just outside the old San Niccolo gate, open since the eighties, with hundreds of labels and crostoni that count as dinner.

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San Niccolo
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Gelateria La Carraia €€

An Oltrarno institution at the foot of Ponte alla Carraia, open since 1990, with big portions and prices that have somehow stayed low.

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San Frediano
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Gelateria della Passera €€

A counter the size of a cupboard on the quietest small square in the Oltrarno, with a short flavour list that changes with the season.

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Santo Spirito
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Giardino Bardini €€

A terraced hillside garden in the Oltrarno with a belvedere that frames the Duomo, and a fraction of the crowd of the Boboli Gardens next door.

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San Niccolo
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Giardino dell'Orticoltura

A neighbourhood garden north of the centre with an 1880 glasshouse, a playground, and a stone dragon on a staircase five minutes uphill.

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Rifredi
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August 2026
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Giardino delle Rose

The same panorama as Piazzale Michelangelo, one terrace lower and with a fraction of the people. Free, with roses from May and bronze figures by Folon through the grounds.

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San Niccolo
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August 2026
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Giovanni Santarpia €€

The pizzeria that brought proper Neapolitan pizza to Florence, out past Porta Romana, where the crowd goes for the dough rather than the location.

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Outside the centre
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August 2026
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Giunti Odeon €€

An Art Deco cinema inside a Renaissance palazzo, now half bookshop and half screening room, showing films in their original language.

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Duomo
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August 2026
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Gustapizza €

Cheap, fast, sometimes heart shaped, and eaten sitting on the steps of Santo Spirito with a beer from the bar opposite.

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Santo Spirito
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Habana 500 €€

A Cuban bar on the river with loungers, a dance floor and a volleyball court, open through the summer and busiest after dark.

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Lungarno
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August 2026
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I Tre Pini €€

A restored farmhouse on the old Chianti wine road above Pozzolatico, once a coaching inn, now a restaurant with a view back over the hills.

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Impruneta
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August 2026
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I' Brindellone €

A neighbourhood trattoria in San Frediano where the room is loud, the tables are close and the Florentine steak is priced for locals.

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San Frediano
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Il Budellino €

A tiny wine counter in the Oltrarno where the aperitivo happens on the street outside because the room holds about eight people.

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Oltrarno
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August 2026
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Il Conventino Caffe Letterario €

A cafe in the cloister of the former Santa Teresa monastery in Oltrarno, surrounded by working artisan studios, with a garden you can sit in all day.

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Oltrarno
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August 2026
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Il Pizzaiuolo €€

Neapolitan pizza in Florence before that was a thing, in a narrow room by the Sant'Ambrogio market, with two sittings and a queue for both.

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Sant'Ambrogio
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August 2026
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Il Santino €

A small stone room off Via di Santo Spirito, pouring wine from tiny producers with a serious showing of natural bottles, alongside crostoni, cheese and cured meat.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Il Santo Bevitore €€

A long room in the Oltrarno with wooden tables and a wine list built by people who care about it, still serious about the food twenty years in.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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LEGO Certified Store €€

The LEGO shop on Via dei Calzaiuoli, with a Pick a Brick wall and a machine that turns a photograph of you into a brick mosaic.

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Duomo
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August 2026
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La Casa del Prosciutto €€

A roadside inn at Ponte a Vicchio in the Mugello, said to have been feeding travellers since the seventeenth century, and known for handmade tortelli.

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Mugello
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August 2026
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La Divina Pizza €

Pizza by the slice on Borgo Allegri, made with stone-milled organic flour and fermented at least a day, sold standing up.

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Santa Croce
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August 2026
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La Menagere €€

A nineteenth century housewares shop turned flower shop, restaurant and cocktail bar, with live jazz in the cellar most nights.

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San Lorenzo
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August 2026
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La Specola €€

The Medici zoological collection: room after room of animals from around the world, including a hippopotamus that once lived in the Boboli gardens.

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Oltrarno
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August 2026
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Le Murate Caffe Letterario €€

A cafe and bar in the courtyard of a former prison, now a cultural centre, with tables under the arches and events most weeks.

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Santa Croce
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August 2026
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Le Pavoniere €€

An outdoor pool inside the Cascine park, under old trees, with a nineteenth century villa beside it and a bar at the water. Summer only.

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Cascine
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August 2026
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Le Volpi e l'Uva €€

A tiny wine bar on a hidden square two minutes from Ponte Vecchio, pouring small producers almost nobody else in the centre stocks.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Loggia Roofbar €€€

A rooftop bar on the loggia of a palazzo in the centre, open in the warm months, with the Duomo close enough to feel oversized.

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Duomo
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August 2026
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Manifattura €€

A cocktail bar on Piazza San Pancrazio built entirely on Italian spirits, with no imported bottles behind the counter at all.

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Santa Maria Novella
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August 2026
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Melaleuca €

An Australian bakery on the Arno that opens at half past seven and serves the breakfast Italy does not: eggs, sourdough, house smoked bacon, and a cinnamon roll people plan their morning around.

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Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella
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August 2026
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Molo €€

A bar directly on the Arno bank, one of the few places in Florence where you drink at the level of the water rather than looking down at it.

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San Niccolo
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August 2026
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Monte Ceceri

The hill above Fiesole where Leonardo is said to have tested his flying machine, with a loop walk through old sandstone quarries and a view down the Arno valley.

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Fiesole
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August 2026
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Museo Galileo €€

Globes, telescopes, early clocks and a great deal of brass, in a small museum next to the Uffizi that children get through in an hour.

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Santa Croce
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August 2026
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Museo Horne €€

The house of an English collector, kept as he left it in 1916, with furniture, paintings and objects arranged as a Renaissance home rather than a gallery.

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Santa Croce
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August 2026
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Museo Novecento €€

Italian twentieth century art in a former hospital on Piazza Santa Maria Novella, in a city that otherwise stops at 1600.

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Santa Maria Novella
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August 2026
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Museo Stibbert €€

A Victorian collector's house on a hill north of the centre, with a hall of life sized armoured knights on horseback and a park with an Egyptian temple.

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Montughi
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August 2026
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Parco delle Cascine

Three kilometres of park along the north bank, once a Medici hunting estate, now the city's running track, playground and Tuesday market.

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Cascine
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August 2026
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Piazza d'Azeglio

A square of plane trees fifteen minutes east of the Duomo with a fenced playground in the middle and a bar on the corner.

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Santa Croce
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Piazzale Michelangelo

The postcard view of Florence, and the busiest square in the city at sunset. Two better versions of the same view are ten minutes away on foot.

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San Niccolo
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August 2026
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Piscina Costoli €€

The largest municipal pool in Florence, next to the football stadium at Campo di Marte, with three tanks and a wide lawn around them.

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Campo di Marte
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August 2026
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Piscina del Poggetto €€

A recently rebuilt pool in a quiet shaded corner of the north of the city, next to the Flog concert venue, with lane swimming in the evenings.

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Rifredi
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August 2026
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Piscina di Bellariva €€

A municipal pool on the Arno east of the centre, named after Goffredo Nannini, with an olympic tank, a children's pool and a large lawn to lie on.

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Bellariva
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August 2026
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Pitti Gola e Cantina €€

A small wine bar facing Palazzo Pitti, run by people who will talk you through a bottle properly, with a list weighted to natural and small production wines.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Pizza Man De Amicis €

A neighbourhood pizzeria out near Campo di Marte where Florentines order by the metre and nobody is there for the atmosphere.

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Campo di Marte
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August 2026
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Rifrullo €

A San Niccolo bar with a garden, a fireplace and a terrace under the old walls, open from breakfast to late.

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San Niccolo
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Running the Cascine loop €€

The only place in Florence where you can run for an hour without stopping at a junction, on flat ground under trees along the river.

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Cascine
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August 2026
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Samambaia €€

A brunch cafe near Porta al Prato with a menu that changes country every month, from Vietnamese bun cha to Florentine hash browns.

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Porta al Prato
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August 2026
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San Miniato al Monte

An eleventh century basilica eight minutes uphill from Piazzale Michelangelo. Free, higher than the Piazzale, and the framing is cleaner because there are no stalls in the foreground.

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San Niccolo
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August 2026
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Santarosa Bistrot €€

A bar and kitchen inside a public garden along the old city walls, with an outdoor space that works as a greenhouse and a lawn people lie on.

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San Frediano
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August 2026
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Simbiosi €€

An organic pizzeria on Via de' Ginori where the dough is left to rise slowly and the flour, oil and produce are traceable to named growers.

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San Lorenzo
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August 2026
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The Bargello €€

A medieval fortress and prison holding Donatello's David, Michelangelo's Bacchus and the best sculpture collection in the city, with a fraction of the queue at the Accademia.

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Centro
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August 2026
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The Book Pub €€

A small pub on Piazza Ghiberti behind the Sant'Ambrogio market, with books on the shelves, board games on the tables and a beer list that changes often.

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Sant'Ambrogio
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August 2026
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The Viale dei Colli walk

A tree lined boulevard along the hills of the south bank, laid out in the 1860s, running from Porta Romana to Piazza Ferrucci by way of Piazzale Michelangelo.

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Oltrarno
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August 2026
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The beach under San Niccolo

Every summer a stretch of gravel on the south bank turns into a bar with deck chairs, a screen and a view straight up the river at the bridges. Free to walk in.

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San Niccolo
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August 2026
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Trattoria Cammillo €€€

Run by the same family since 1945, a few steps from Ponte Vecchio, where Tuscan cooking sits next to curried prawns invented for English regulars in the fifties.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Trattoria Mossacce €

A tiny room in the centre with a menu that changes daily, one of the fastest services in Florence, and all the Tuscan classics done without decoration.

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Centro
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August 2026
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Trattoria Omero €€

A hillside trattoria a few minutes above Piazzale Michelangelo, with wooden tables, straw chairs and a view over the city and the countryside behind it.

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Pian dei Giullari
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August 2026
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Trattoria Sabatino €

A canteen west of the centre with paper tablecloths, a handwritten menu and prices that have not caught up with the rest of Florence.

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San Frediano
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August 2026
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Trattoria Sergio Gozzi €

A lunch-only trattoria on Piazza San Lorenzo with roots going back further than most of the city's famous ones, and a menu that changes every day.

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San Lorenzo
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August 2026
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Trattoria Za Za €

A large trattoria on Piazza del Mercato Centrale, open since 1977, with eccentric rooms full of paintings and dolls, Tuscan classics, and a queue outside even for people who booked.

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San Lorenzo
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August 2026
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Trattoria da Burde €

A trattoria that opened as a fiaschetteria in 1901 and now sits well outside the walls, which is exactly why the room is full of Florentines and almost nobody else.

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Outside the centre
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August 2026
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Tree Experience Lungarno €€

An adventure park a few metres from the Arno, with rope courses, ziplines, suspended nets and jumping pillows, right in the middle of the city.

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Lungarno
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August 2026
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Vallombrosa Abbey and forest

An eleventh century abbey in a fir forest an hour east of Florence, with shaded trails, small cascades and the tallest tree in Italy.

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Outside the centre
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August 2026
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Volume €€

A bar in a former hat-maker's workshop on Piazza Santo Spirito, with the old wooden tools still on the walls, a small stage at the back and live music most weeks.

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Santo Spirito
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August 2026
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Walking up to Fiesole

A climb out of the city on foot through olive terraces and villa walls, ending in an Etruscan hill town with a Roman theatre and the whole valley below.

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Outside the centre
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August 2026
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Wild Buns Bakery €

A Scandinavian bakery in the Oltrarno run by an Estonian baker, where you sit and watch them roll the buns you are about to eat.

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San Frediano
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August 2026
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Wine Lab €€

A bulk wine shop on Via Gioberti where you bring your own bottle, they fill it from the vat, and you can also just stay and drink a glass.

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Sant'Ambrogio
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August 2026
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