Florence in 1 Day from Pisa: the Best Itineraries

How To go From Pisa To Florence

To go to Florence you can choose the train, the bus or with a Day tour. If you take the train you have to go to the Central Station of Pisa, you can take a bus or walk to join the station or a taxi from your hotel.

At the train station of Pisa you have to take the train to Florence about every hour but there are many options like regional trains and local trains. The price can be different and also the duration of journey.

Remember to buy the ticket to the office, validate to the machines (very important) and check the platform. Then in Florence you can walk or take a bus to the historical centre of the town.

If you prefere the bus you have to go to the airoport of Pisa and the trip to Florence is more then a hour, but it really depend on the traffic. In Florence the arrive is at the Central train station (Santa Maria Novella), from there you can walk or take a bus to the historical centre of the town.

The Best Solution to Visit Florence

But the best solution to visit Florence is definitely choosing a guided tour with a convenient pick up at your hotel and a guide available throughout the day. The trip will be with a comfortable a / c minivan with which you get directly in the center of Florence. At that point your guide will take you around by foot touching the main monuments of the historic center.

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Visit Florence in 1 day: the perfect itinerary to see everything

In the center of the city is the Piazza del Duomo. The Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), really fascinating. It was built in the thirteenth century on pre-existing buildings but the façade is not original: it was, in fact, replaced in the nineteenth century. Santa Maria del Fiore is famous for its unique dome, designed by Brunelleschi, but also for the hypnotic coating of black and white bricks.

Opposite the Cathedral is the Baptistery of San Giovanni, a very important monument from the religious point of view, but also (and above all) from the artistic point of view.

Just next to the Duomo is Giotto’s Bell Tower, contemporary of the adjacent church of Santa Maria del Fiore. Giotto’s Bell Tower can be visited, but it is not recommended for those suffering from vertigo.
To get to the top of the belltower it takes a lot of patience, as there are 414 steps: what a struggle! But the view from above on Santa Maria del Fiore and the historic center of Florence is incomparable.
Walking along Via dei Calzaiuoli you will find yourself in a few minutes at the center of another wonderful Florentine square, Piazza della Signoria.

At the center of the square you will find the famous fountain of Neptune and, on the opposite side from which you will arrive, there are Palazzo Vecchio and the Loggia dei Lanzi (which houses beautiful sculptures such as Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Giambologna’s Rape of the Sabines).

A few steps and you will be in front of the Uffizi Museum, where the most important masterpieces of Italian art are exhibited. Inside the museum you can visit many “themed” rooms: one absolutely not to be missed (perhaps the most beautiful of all) is dedicated to Botticelli. Also with regard to the Uffizi, the rows (especially in the summer) are interminable.

Ponte Vecchio in Florence

A few steps further, you will reach the Lungarno, from where you can see the nearby Ponte Vecchio. Traveling through it is an unforgettable experience: the small goldsmith shops have retained many of the original medieval features.

The Ponte Vecchio has the particularity of being almost completely closed on the sides and covered: on the Arno faces, in fact, the back of the goldsmith shops, which, obviously, could not be opened (many back-rooms come out of the bridge, to try to earn a little extra space).

Only a small central portion of the Ponte Vecchio, where there is a cooling fountain, is open and allows you to admire the view of the river.

 

Our Day Trips in Florence

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