Badia a Passignano
A fortified abbey standing alone among Chianti vineyards, with a Ghirlandaio Last Supper inside and cypress avenues around it.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
Day trips a bit out of Florence
🌳 a bit out of the city
Hills, waterfalls, farmhouse kitchens and hillside trattorias within an easy trip from Florence.
The places
Bettolina Firenze Sud €
A neighbourhood trattoria in the southern suburbs, well away from anything a visitor would walk to.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
Cucina Pietraforte €
A kitchen named after the sandstone Florence is built from, cooking the city's own dishes rather than the ones visitors expect.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
Easy Living in Fattoria €€
The summer river beach people know from the Arno, run out in the countryside instead, on a farm.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Impruneta
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Mugello
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Fiesole
- Verified
- August 2026
Parco Mediceo di Pratolino, Villa Demidoff
A Medici park north of the city built around the Appennino, a colossal stone giant by Giambologna crouching over a pool.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
Parco di Villa il Ventaglio
A hillside park northeast of the centre with a lake, a neoclassical villa and meadows that open straight onto the city.
- Area
- Campo di Marte
- Verified
- August 2026
Settignano and the hills behind it
A village on a terrace above the city where Michelangelo was nursed, with a square, a bar and paths running out into olive terraces.
- Area
- Settignano
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Oltrarno
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Pian dei Giullari
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
16 places in this collection.