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How to get to Florence
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By Air
The city airport is Amerigo Vespucci at only
5 km from the city centre, a small but easy to get to airport.
To get to town you can either take a taxi
outside of the arrivals hall, or take a shuttle bus ?Vola in
bus?, departures every 30 minutes from the airport and from SITA
coach station (piazza Stazione) to the airport. Tickets cost
around ?4.00 and can be purchased on board as well as inside
the airport or at the Sita coach station and at the ATAF ticket
booth (Stazione di Santa Maria Novella).
The second nearest airport is of course the
international airport of Pisa Galileo Galilei at only an hour
journey from Florence either by car or by train.
By car
Autostrada/Motorway
A1 Milano-Bologna- Roma -Naples
Autostrada/Motorway
A11 Firenze-Prato-Lucca-Pisa-Livorno (Autostrada del Mare) links
the city to the coast, and a superstrada with no tolls joins the
city with Siena.
State road ss67 connects the city with Pisa
to the west and Forli? and Ravenna to the east.
Tollgates:
A1 Firenze Sud -
A1 Firenze Certosa - A1 Firenze Signa
A1 Firenze Nord -
A1 Calenzano-Sesto Fiorentino
Information about motorway traffic (Florence
area)
tel. 0554203200-0554203250
www.autostrade.it
By Train:
The main Station of Florence is Firenze Santa
Maria Novella (Firenze SMN).
The city is on the Rome-Milan line with very
frequent train to/for the major Italian city as Rome, Milan,
Bologna, Venice, Genoa (sometimes with interchange in Pisa),
Turin, as well as with regional train for Prato, Pistoia and
Lucca.
High speed trains running between Milan and
Rome stop in Florence. Eurocity and night trains connect
directly Florence to several European cities (Paris, Geneve,
Zurich, Wien, and Munich).
For further information and timetable visit
www.trenitalia.it
By Bus:
The main bus station is run by SITA (www.sita-on-line.it)
just in front of Santa Maria Novella train station, while others
are the CAP, LAZZI and the COPIT which are nearby.
There are frequent services and connections
to and from the main cities in Tuscany like Siena, Poggibonsi,
San Giminiano, Volterra, Arezzo, Castellina in Chianti, Pisa,
Pistoia, etc and also to cities in Emilia-Romagna like Faenza.
Nearby to the station is also the Eurolines ticket office for
the international service network to European cities.
How to move around Florence city centre:
By Bike:
Indeed, cycling around Florence is one of the
best ways to visit the city. Renting a bike can cost from around
8 euros per day. Also fascinating is to rent a scooter for just
around 20 euros per day.
By car:
Usually traffic is banned from the historic
city centre and searching for parking sites can become very
stressful.
Public
transport:
ATAF service the city centre, Fiesole and the
periphery.
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