Florence
in Province of Florence of Tuscany, Italy
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Firenze / Peretola Airport (3 mi) - Lucca / Tassignano Airport (33 mi)
- Siena / Ampugnano Airport (36 mi)
- Arezzo Airport (37 mi)
- Pisa / San Giusto - Galileo Galilei International Airport (43 mi)
- Forlì Airport (50 mi)
- Bologna / Borgo Panigale Airport (52 mi)
- Grosseto Airport (71 mi)
- Verona / Villafranca Airport (113 mi)
- Venezia / Tessera - Marco Polo Airport (131 mi)
- Treviso / Sant'Angelo Airport (137 mi)
- Historic Centre of Florence (Unesco heritage, 1 mi)
- Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (Unesco heritage, 6 mi)
- Historic Centre of San Gimignano (Unesco heritage, 24 mi)
- Historic Centre of Siena (Unesco heritage, 32 mi)
- Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (Unesco heritage, 43 mi)
- Val d'Orcia (Unesco heritage, 52 mi)
- Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (Unesco heritage, 53 mi)
- Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (Unesco heritage, 62 mi)
- Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (Unesco heritage, 65 mi)
- Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (Unesco heritage, 75 mi)
- Parco Avventura Il Gigante (amusement park, (6 mi)
- Minigolf San Cipriano Campo Comunale (amusement park, (19 mi)
- Hidron (amusement park, (7 mi)
- Panorama dalla Strada per S. Francesco (observation point, (3 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 43.779 and 11.246 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 43° 46' 45" and E 11° 14' 46"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- Italian, German, French, Sardinian, Catalan, Corsican, Slovenian
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 09:43 AM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Europe/Rome
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:18 am and 4:44 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -43.733 and -176.350 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Matarakau - References
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Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to Italy.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Italy. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Touring Florence
Florence in Province of Florence (Tuscany) with it's 349,296 residents is a town located in Italy about 145 mi (or 234 km) north-west of Rome, the country's capital place.
Time in Florence is now 09:43 AM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Europe / Rome with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 11 airports nearby Florence, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in Italy is Firenze / Peretola Airport in a distance of 3 mi (or 5 km), North-West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Italy is Historic Centre of Florence in a distance of 1 mi (or 1 km), South-East. We collected 4 points of interest near this location. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Fiesole, Scandicci, Sesto Fiorentino, Bagno a Ripoli and Impruneta. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 53 °F
| Morning Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 11°C / 53 °F |
| Night Temperature | 14°C / 57 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 15% |
| Air Humidity | 50% |
| Air Pressure | 1007 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 12 km/h (8 mph) from North-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 79% of sky |
| General Conditions | Heavy intensity rain |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
15°C (59 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Light rain, strong breeze, broken clouds.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
11°C (51 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Sky is clear, calm, clear sky.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
9°C (49 °F)
10°C (51 °F)
Overcast clouds, calm.
Hotels and Places to Stay
C-Hotels Joy
Londra
Hotel Adler Cavalieri
C-hotels Ambasciatori
C-Hotels Diplomat
Leonardo da Vinci
Embassy
MH Florence Hotel&Spa
Hotel Bella Firenze
Golf
Videos from this area
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Florence city guide - Lonely Planet travel videos
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University of Florence: a two minutes experience
A two minutes experience through the University of Florence.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated just across from the main railway station which shares its name. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church. The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures and funerary monuments. Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic and early Renaissance.
Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station
Firenze Santa Maria Novella (in English Florence Santa Maria Novella) or Stazione di Santa Maria Novella - Firenze SMN is the main national and international railway station in Florence, Italy. The station is used by 59 million people every year and is one of the busiest in Italy. It is at the northern end of the Florence–Rome direttissima, which was completed on 26 May 1992 and the southern end of the Bologna–Florence Direttissima, opened on 22 April 1934.
Holy Trinity (Masaccio)
The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors (Italian: Santa Trinità) is a fresco by the Early Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio. It is located in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence.
Ognissanti, Florence
The Chiesa di Ognissanti (All-Saints Church) is a Franciscan church in Florence, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church was dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown.
Oratorio dei Vanchetoni
The Oratorio dei Vanchetoni or Oratory of the Vanchetoni is a prayer hall for the Arch-confraternity of San Francesco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The society was founded by Ippolito Galantini (1565-1619), and had the purpose of educating poor children on the Christian doctrine. The members of the Company were called vanchetoni, for their habit of walking quietly, and bacchetoni, in reference to the used baton for penitential self-scourging.
Tornabuoni Chapel
The Tornabuoni Chapel is the main chapel in the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. It is famous for the extensive and well-preserved fresco cycle on its walls, one of the most complete in the city, which was created by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his workshop between 1485 and 1490.
Palazzo dei Cartelloni
Palazzo dei Cartelloni, also known as Palazzo Viviani, is a historical edifice in Florence, central Italy. This building displays many unusual architectural elements, the most evident being the unusually big epigraphs written in Latin. The owner of the building, the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, had them applied on the main façade in 1693, in order to celebrate and glorify the life and many discoveries of his master, Galileo Galilei.
Mercato Centrale (Florence)
The Mercato Centrale (Central Market in English), or Mercato di San Lorenzo in Florence is located between via dell'Ariento, via Sant'Antonino, via Panicale and Piazza del Mercato Centrale. It is one of the results from the time of risanamento, the period when Florence was the capital of Italy in the late nineteenth century.
Last Supper (Ghirlandaio)
The Last Supper (1480) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. It depicts Jesus and the Apostles during the Last Supper, with Judas sitting separately on the near side of the table, as is common in depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art. Ghirlandaio was already famous and was about to travel to Rome to paint the Sistine Chapel with other Florentine painters when he received the commission for this fresco.
Palazzo Antinori
Palazzo Antinori is a Renaissance palace in Florence, central Italy. It is located at one end of Via de' Tornabuoni
Heating plant and main controls cabin, Florence
The Heating plant and Main controls cabin is a technical facilities building in Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni in 1929. The complex is recognized as one of the masterpiece of Futurist architecture.
Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia
The Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia (MNAF - National Museum Alinari of Photography), formerly Museo della Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari is a photography museum located on the piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence. It hosts special exhibitions on a regular basis and possesses 350.000 vintage prints from the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 1 November 2006 it is located in the Ospedale di San Paolo, a former pilgrims' hostel that was later transformed into a school.
These districts belong to Florence.
Other districtsThese are districts that are close by, but belong to a different city than Florence.
Popular in vicinityThese are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Florence.
- Fiesole
- Scandicci
- Sesto Fiorentino
- Bagno a Ripoli
- Impruneta
- Calenzano
- Campi Bisenzio
- Lastra a Signa
- San Casciano in Val di Pesa
- Vaglia
- Signa
- Prato
- Pontassieve
- Poggio A Caiano
- San Piero a Sieve
- Greve in Chianti
- Rignano sull'Arno
- Barberino di Mugello
- Montespertoli
- Borgo San Lorenzo
- Vaiano
- Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
- Carmignano
- Incisa in Val d'Arno
- Scarperia
- Montelupo Fiorentino
- Rufina
- Barberino Val d'Elsa
- Pelago
- Fornacelle
Florence: Arno, Florence (source)
Florence › South-East: Hotel Bijou − Giotto's Bell Tower − Palazzo Vecchio − Cappelle Medici, Florence (source)
Florence: Ponte Vecchio − Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (source)
Florence › South-East: Firenze Centro, Florence (source)
Florence: The Westin Excelsior, Florence (source)
Vacchereccia: Piazza strozzi − Firenze, Vacchereccia (source)
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This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
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