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.
- Area
- San Niccolo
- Verified
- August 2026
What to do in Florence with children
🪁 to do with kids
Museums that were built for children rather than adapted for them, the gardens Florentine families actually use, and the stretch of the Arno you can get onto.
The written guide What to do in Florence with childrenThe places
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.
- Area
- San Niccolo
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Rifredi
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Oltrarno
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Duomo
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Oltrarno
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Santa Croce
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Montughi
- Verified
- August 2026
Palazzo Vecchio, the secret passages €€
A guided route through the staircases and hidden rooms the Medici used to cross their own palace without being seen by anybody.
- Area
- Duomo
- 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 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.
- Area
- Cascine
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Santa Croce
- Verified
- August 2026
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.
- Area
- Lungarno
- Verified
- August 2026
13 places in this collection.