19 Jun 2026 · 10 min read
Getting around Florence
Getting around Florence: you'll mostly walk. The honest playbook for the airport tram and taxi, the ZTL driving rule, trams, buses, taxis, and bikes.
- transport
- getting-around
- planning
6 Jul
Florence · Firenze · Tuscany
A guide to
the city worth slowing down for.
Find where to stay, eat and visit — fast. Curated from Google Places. No carousels, no upsells, no clickbait.
2,800
Places curated
6+
Neighborhoods
and with a lot of love
Categories · eleven ways in
Pick a thread, follow it through the city.
Six neighborhoods
Florence isn't one city. It's six.
Each quarter has its own pulse — where the locals eat, where the artisans still work, where the day starts and where it ends. Pick a side of the Arno.
01 / Centro Storico
Centro Storico
The postcard. Duomo, Uffizi, Signoria — and the cafés that still serve locals before tourists.
- Places
- 523
- Places
- Hotels
- 75
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- 144
- Restaurants
02 / Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella
Station-side. Where you arrive, eat your first lunch, and find more rooms than anywhere else in town.
- Places
- 409
- Places
- Hotels
- 109
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- 120
- Restaurants
03 / Santa Croce
Santa Croce
Leather, basilica, Sant'Ambrogio market. The neighborhood that still feels like a Florentine working day.
- Places
- 418
- Places
- Hotels
- 52
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- 148
- Restaurants
04 / Oltrarno
Oltrarno
Across the bridge. Artisans, aperitivi, sunsets on Piazzale Michelangelo. Where the locals go when tourists win.
- Places
- 446
- Places
- Hotels
- 56
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- 155
- Restaurants
05 / San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo
Mercato Centrale, leather stalls, and the trattorias that have been feeding the same families for sixty years.
- Places
- 303
- Places
- Hotels
- 55
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- 118
- Restaurants
06 / San Marco
San Marco
Botanical garden, the Accademia, quiet streets. The university quarter — half student, half David.
- Places
- 66
- Places
- Hotels
- 21
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- 11
- Restaurants
What we don't do
Curated, not crowdsourced. Calm, not loud.
Discovery
Curated, not crowdsourced.
Places come from trusted data and clear a quality bar before they appear. No user reviews, no crowd voting, no pay-to-list.
Trust
The source is always shown.
Ratings come straight from Google, labelled on every card. Ranking is a transparent formula — no black-box scoring, no paid placement.
Calm
Five sections. No noise.
No autoplay video, no "trending now," no endless scroll. One page, one path, one decision at a time.
Fresh
Current, not stale.
Hours, ratings, and closures refresh on a regular cycle, so what you see reflects the place as it is today — not a profile gone out of date.
05 / Method
How places get listed.
Florence is curated by a transparent algorithm, not by editors. Every place shown here came from Google Places, cleared a quality floor, and was ranked by a fixed weighted score. We tell you the score's inputs and the data's age. Nothing here is paid or sponsored.
Source
Google Places only
Update
Every ~10 days
Ranked by
6-input weighted score: rating, review count, geo-centrality, recency, category-completeness, source-agreement
Editorial
Listings ranked by algorithm, not editors. Guides are clearly-marked editorial.
06 / Guides
Florence, explained.
Editorial itineraries and neighborhood walks — clearly marked, separate from our algorithm-ranked listings.
17 Jun 2026 · 14 min read
Florence summer 2026: events and festivals
What's on in Florence over summer 2026 — the San Giovanni festival, the Rothko show at Palazzo Strozzi, open-air cinema, concerts, and wine nights, all dated.
- events
- festivals
- summer
16 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
A walking tour of Florence's historic centre
A calm, self-guided walk through Florence's historic centre — the Duomo, the pedestrian spine, Orsanmichele, the market squares, and the medieval lanes.
- neighborhood
- walk
- centro-storico