TRANSPORTATION in Florence
In this
page you can find all informations about transportation in/to/around
Florence.
ARRIVING
BY PLAN...
If
you arrive to Florence by airplane, you are going to land at Amerigo Vespucci Airport. This is not properly in the center. There are several services (public and private) that connect the Florence city center with th Airport of Florence (Amerigo Vespucci airport).
Are you flying to/from Pisa Airport G.Galilei)? There are several services (public and private) that connect the Pisa International Airport with the Florence city center and with the Airport of Florence.
For all information about the airport and the transfer services, please find it here:
- the airport of Florence;
- the airport of Pisa;
- the airport trasfer services.
Thanks to our partnership with Terravision and Viator, we're able to offer you the chance to book your airport transfer directly with us.
ARRIVING
BY TRAIN...
The
Train
Station is in the center of the city, near S. Maria Novella place.
In this place there are many bus stops of the ATAF bus Lines. A lot
of them crosses the center in all directions, and many ATAF bus lines
stop around the station and their location and destination is shown
in the following
picture [download PDF]. For detailed bus stops location and time table, ATAF
on Line.
Rent a car in Florence
Are you searching for information about renting a car in Florence? If yes, you found the right site! Following you can find all the necessary information. Thanks to aboutflorence.com and Avis you can rent cars online not only from/to Florence but also to many other italian cities.
TAXI
IN FLORENCE
In Florence the taxi is easly reacheable from different taxi ranks in several points of the city, almost in the center. Anyway you can easly acces to a taxi dialing one of the following phone number: 055 43 90 | 055 44 99 | 055 47 98 | 055 42 42.
The taxi service is helded by two different mayor company: RADIO TAXI and TAXI SOCOTA so the fees can change a little bit, you really should read carefully the information about fare shown inside the taxi.
Here are taxi fares for destinations
inside the city of Florence:
Starting rate: € 2,38
Starting rate for night trip (from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.): € 5,16
Starting rate for Sunday/holidays trip: € 4,03
Luggage (max 4 pieces): € 0,57 per piece
Rate fare from Florence (center) to Amerigo Vespucci Airport:
about € 15,00
Other charges besides fare depends on the destination and supplements.
BUS
IN FLORENCE
ATAF
and LI-NEA are the public companies that manage the bus transportation
in Florence. Genreally from the center of the city, and from all
around the train station, you can reach all the city. From there
website
anyway you can easly find the fares, the time schedules and the
city's bus map.
Tickets and Bus passes can be purchased at Box Ataf in Piazza Stazione,
bars, newstands, tobacconists. Tickets must be stamped on the machines
on board. At night, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., tickets can be purchased
aboard from the driver at 2,00 Euro
Here
are bus tickets/fares for destinations inside the city of Florence:
60 minutes - 1,00 Euro | 3 hours - 1,80 Euro | daily ticket - 4,00
Euro
2 days - 5,70 Euro | 3 days - 7,20 | weekly ticket - 12,00 Euro
Multi-ride (4x60 minutes) - 3,90 Euro
Here
are some useful bus lines:
7 Stazione - S. Domenico - Fiesole
10 Stazione - Campo Marte - Settignano
12/13 Stazione - Piazzale Michelangelo (Camping Michelangelo)
17 Verga - Salviatino (Youth Hostel)
25a Stazione - P.zza Liberta - Pratolino (Villa Demidoff)
2 Stazione - Sesto Fiorentino - Calenzano (Camping Autosole)
37 Stazione - Porta Romana - Galluzzo (Camping Internazionale Firenze)-
Tavarnuzze
Vola in bus Stazione - Ponte di Mezzo - “Vespucci”Airport
For more information you can give a look to there website or go to the "Box Ataf" in Piazza Stazione - "ProntoAtaf", tel. 800 424500
Website - More info: http://www.ataf.net/
BUS
EXCURSIONS IN TUSCANY
With the transport service offered
by Lazzi,
you can reach every city of Tuscany by bus.
In the site, you can easily find time schedules, fares and the Lazzi
guided tours around Tuscany.
Website - More info: http://www.lazzi.it/eng/activenews.asp
More informations on stations, airport and bus companies:Airport “Amerigo
Vespucci”
Departures, Arrives, Time tables, location, useful informations
Website - More info: http://www.aeroporto.firenze.it/EN/index.php?percorso=&ln=1&jk=&tipo=&curr=&opt=
ATAF
BUS LINES
Departures, Arrives, Time tables, useful informations
Website - More info: http://www.ataf.net/
FS,
National Railway Company
Departures, Arrives, Time tables, station location, useful informations
Website - More info: http://www.fs-on-line.com/home/en/index.html
National
Highways Company
Station location and all useful informations about the Italian highways
Website - More info: http://www.autostrade.it/en/index.html
Train
Station "Santa Maria Novella"
It gives usefull information about the Florence's train station.
Website - More info: http://www.grandistazioni.it/

