WELCOME TO ABOUT FLORENCE

Dear visitor, Welcome to aboutflorence.com
This non-commercial website offers interesting and useful information about one of the most beautiful city in the world, Florence (Italy). We have collected for you the most precious historical and practical information available:

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• LIGURIA - Discover the Region of Cinque Terre, Genoa, Portofino and Porto Venere. Thanks to About Liguria you will find all the information about this Italian sea region.
• VENICE - Are you searching for information about the city of Venice, the “City of Water”? Now is finally online Aboutvenice.org, your tourist guide to Venice. Find all information about: history, culture, city sightseeing, maps... and much much more.
• ABOUT ITALY - Our blog "About Italy News Blog: News about Italy from Italy" is finally online! Here we have already inaugurated a category about Florence.
• ROME - Are you searching for information about the city of Rome, the “eternal city”? Now is finally online Aboutroma.com, your tourist guide to Rome. Find all information about: history, culture, city sightseeing, maps... and much much more.
• MILAN - Are you searching for information about the city of Milan? Now is finally online Aboutmilan.com, your tourist guide to Milan. Discover Milan: history, culture, hotel, maps and much more.
• SIENA - Are searching for information about the city of Siena? Now is finally online Aboutsiena.com, your tourist guide to Siena
• MUGELLO - Are searching for information about the Mugello, the wonderful valley filled with green, situated to the north of Florence? Now is finally online Aboutmugello.com, your tourist guide to Mugello. Find all information about the valley of Mugello: history, culture, municipalities, maps... and don't forget to read also about the famous Mugello circuit

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• About Florence Search Engine: thanks to the project Google co-op, now it is possible to search inside About Florence. You can use it to find out the most relevant content for your serch about Florence. Try it!
• Useful Maps of Florence: browse our new dynamic, interactive and draggable map of Florence to find the most famous Florence sightseeing and attractions over the satellite maps.
• About Florence collaborates with PlacesOnLine.com, an italian tourism and vacations portal specialized since years in offering guides to places and countries all around the world. Visit the Italy Tourism and Travel section of PlacesOnLine, you will find usefull advices about Italy.
• About Florence, collaborates with Econoetica, a new way to discover art cities such as Florence: Arianna, new multimedia guide to the city of Florence... on pda .
• The 24th of June is coming in Florence, the Saint Patron, Protector of the city, Saint John (San Giovanni Battista). It's going to be a special day full of events and attractions. Discover more about the history and the attractions of this year, inside the page dedicated to the Florentine June 24th.
• Events in Florence: Pitti Immagine , look at our special section on PITTI : on June in Florence will open the doors the 76th edidion of PITTI UOMO: one of the most importan appointment for the world of fashion.
• Florence Flood: special cover about the 4th of November 1966, the day of the flood in Florence. Find informations about history, stories, chronicles and photos of the drama.
• Transportation in Florence: we've reorganized our sections about moving in Florence. Added new pages about the airport of Florence and Pisa and about the public and private transfer service to/from the airport to/from the Florence city center. We've also added a new page about cyclable tracks in Florence. To all bicycle lover, you can't miss it!

ABOUT FLORENCE, ITALY:

here you can find all general information about the "city of florence", as the history of the city, the art and the culture of Florence as well as his famous peoples. Here you can also find information about the economy of the city, the most important events in Florence besides to the folkloristic one;

INFORMATION:

Discover the city of Florence having a look at the monuments and museums, walking through our suggested itineraries and having a break in its beautiful parks and gardens, or, if you prefer, choose among our collections of Florence Virtual Tours. If you like to discover local food and drink have a look at the Florentine cuisine. Would you like to bring home a local souvenir? Don't forget to take note of the local typical markets of Florence, and, above of all, don't forget to make an excursion in the Florence' environs: visiting Tuscany and its beautiful cities like Siena, Pisa or Lucca.

TOURISTIC GUIDE:

Are you planning to go to Florence? Here you'll find some very useful information for your staying in the city. Before leaving discover how to move to/from/inside Florence, find an hotels or an accomodation, take note of the places where to get information about the city once in Florence, look at the useful maps and at the always updated weather situation of Florence. You'd probably like to know where to make shopping, where to do sport and fitness and finally where to spend the night in Florence, dancing or going to theatre. Do you want more? Then attend an italian language course and learn the italian language and culture better than ever.

ADDRESSES:

Here there are come useful address for any convenience or need: emergency number , location of the consulates, where to rent a bike. And if in your accomodation doesn't offer a washing machine, then you'll find very helpful this list of wash & dry in Florence. Obviously... we can't forget a list of Internet Points in Florence :)

Where to beign? Let's give a look to this Florence Art Map Guide (generously given by Firenze by Net)