Florence Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

June 15 we booked a walking tour of Florence followed by wine, olive oil and balsamic vinegar tasting. The walking tour took us across the river, away from the tourists, to an area filled with small artisan shops, not an Italia t-shirt in sight! The small restaurants where filled with Italians, menus priced much lower and the food quality a good...

This was a "light" day. We didn't do much heavy duty sight-seeing, but we still saw some beautiful statues and of course the Ponte Vecchio is worth checking out especially at night.

After a bit of a lie in this morning, we had a late brekkie in our hotel at about 10am. Then we took a stroll around the streets of Florence. We stopped at a market and checked out the many souvenirs and leather knock-off handbags and wallets. As we are backpacking, we have limited space for shopping purchases, so I resisted the temptation to bu...

Ciao a tutti! Thank you all for virtually travelling with me and leaving your comments- they have kept me close to home even though I'm a world away! I have no words to describe my time here a Firenze....one month certainly was not enough time to experience this city and I doubt I could ever be sick of it. Most of the students here who are going...

Leaving La Spezia for Florence, we decided to stop off at Pisa to see one Italy's most recognisable monuments, the leaning tower of Pisa. We didn't expect to spend much time in Pisa. Viewing the tower, and seeing the tourists walk up and around the tower looked pretty weird given the tower is 4.1m off the perpendicular. After doing the touristy ...

Okay, the Boboli Gardens definitely are no secret by any means. But, while walking through I felt like I was in the book "Secret Garden." Elenora, Cosimo's wife originally bought Pitti Palace and invested into the gardens, she wanted to use it to house her court. Since her investment, as planned the gardens have been used for major events such a...