Insight Guides: Explore Florence

Insight Guides

• Publisher: Insight
• Print ISBN: 9781780059105
• eBook ISBN: 9781786715548
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure
With its landmark monuments, outstanding art galleries, treasure-trove piazzas and great shopping, Florence is the quintessential Renaissance city. Insight Guide Explore Florence is the ideal pocket companion for your trip: a full-colour guide containing 15 easy-to-follow routes around the city.
Inside Explore Florence:
Discover the world's best collection of Renaissance art at the Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia and the Bargello.
Experience some of the best shopping in Italy: from the local Chianti wines and olive oils to the best Italian designer names and superb leather goods.
Insight's trademark cultural coverage sets the routes in context, with introductions to Florence's cuisine, entertainment options and key historical dates.
Our recommended places to eat and drink are highlighted in each route, with even more suggestions in the directory section, which also contains a wealth of useful practical information including a range of carefully selected accommodation to suit all budgets.
Pull-out map with useful plotted routes.
Evocative photography captures Florence's stunning Renaissance beauty.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

How To Use This E-Book

This Explore Guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

Best Routes

The routes in this book provide something to suit all budgets, tastes and trip lengths. As well as covering the destination’s many classic attractions, the itineraries track lesser-known sights, and there are also ex­cursions for those who want to extend their visit outside the city. The routes embrace a range of interests, so whether you are an art fan, a gourmet, a history buff or have kids to entertain, you will find an option to suit.

We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Food and Drink’ box at the end of each tour.

Introduction

The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus backg...

Table of contents

• How To Use This E-Book
• Recommended Routes For...
• Explore Florence
• Food and Drink
• Shopping
• Entertainment
• History: Key Dates
• Piazza del Duomo
• Orsanmichele to the Ponte Vecchio
• The Uffizi
• The Bargello and Santa Croce
• Santa Maria Novella to San Marco
• The Accademia to the Museo Archeologico
• Around Piazza Della Repubblica
• Oltrarno
• The Pitti Palace and Boboli Garden
• San Miniato Al Monte
• Fiesole
• Medici Villas
• San Gimignano
• Siena
• Pisa
• Accommodation
• Restaurants
• Nightlife
• A-Z
• Language
• Books and Film