What this site is for
Florence is about a kilometre across and almost everyone who visits spends their time inside the same two hundred metres of it. This site is an attempt to be useful about that: what has to be booked and how far ahead, which things are free, what shuts on a Monday, and how quickly you can walk out of the crowd.
There are twenty-four sight pages, a page on the dome, pages on the people who made the city what it is, eight day trips and five itineraries.
It is written for visitors. Residents are not the audience, and there is no "moving to Florence" section.
How it is written
Every page describes a mechanism rather than quoting a figure. ⛔ There are no admission prices, opening hours, fares or timetables anywhere on this site. Those change every season, and a number written here would be wrong before you read it. The pages tell you what must be booked, what is free, what is timed and what closes on a day you would not expect — and send you to the operator for the figure.
⛔ Nothing here is invented. No price, fare, slot time or opening time is written from memory or filled in to look complete. Where something is uncertain the page says so.
Journey times for the day trips are approximations, checked before publication and written as approximations — never as a timetable.
⚠️ How this site is made
Access Florence is written and maintained with the assistance of AI, and edited and fact-checked before publication. That is not a formality and it is worth being specific about what it means.
The research, the drafting and the page building are AI-assisted. Historical facts — dates, names, sequences of events — are checked against sources before they are published. Every photograph on this site has been looked at by a person before it was used, because metadata regularly describes a picture correctly and shows something else entirely: a category for a famous piazza can contain army patrol vehicles parked in it, and a search for a cathedral can return a scale model of it in another country.
What AI assistance cannot do is visit. Where this site describes an atmosphere or a recommendation, treat it as informed judgement rather than a report from last Tuesday. Anything time-sensitive should be confirmed with the operator.
⭐ Some of the photographs on this site were taken by the site's owner in Florence, and are credited by the author. The rest are from Wikimedia Commons, used under their licences and credited individually on the page they appear on.
Affiliate links
Some links on this site are affiliate links: if you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
⛔ No sight page and no ranking on this site carries an affiliate link, and no recommendation here is influenced by whether a partner pays. Where a page suggests booking something, the official operator is given first.
Affiliate links are marked rel="sponsored" in the page source.
Corrections
Corrections are the most useful thing you can send. If a booking arrangement has changed, a museum has moved its closing day, or a ticket now covers something different, please say so.
Corrections are made to the page rather than appended to it, and material changes are dated.
Florence, photographed on the ground
Every one of these was taken in the city by the site's owner.
