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You’ve been planning Florence for months. Flights booked, a charming hotel in the center, reservations made. Then the night before you open the weather app and see that symbol you never want to see. The cloud with lightning. Or worse: the cloud with lightning for three days straight. Don’t let it ruin you. Seriously. Florence […]

Florence is not just the city of the Uffizi and the Duomo. It is also the city where gelato was invented, where a piece of meat on the grill becomes a ritual and where Florentines have spent centuries eating tripe in the street without any shame. Florentine cuisine is like that: direct, hearty and profoundly […]

Some cities seem easier for a family trip on paper. Florence is not always one of them. People tend to think of churches, art, museums, queues, and historic streets, and the same question comes up straight away: is Florence with kids really worth it? The answer is yes. And much more than you might expect. […]

Things to do in Florence at night include watching the sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo, walking across the illuminated Ponte Vecchio, enjoying an Italian aperitivo in Santo Spirito, listening to live music, or finishing the evening with gelato by the Arno River. When the monuments light up, the city feels completely different from the daytime. But […]

The first time Florence popped into my head, I pictured it with that golden, movie-filter light: squares that invite you to sit “for just a minute” (and you end up staying an hour), little streets that smell like coffee, and that moment when you cross the Arno and think: okay, this is the real Italy. […]

Let me tell it like I would to a friend: Florence smells like marble dust, crunchy schiacciata and sunsets that disarm you. The first time I went without a plan and ended up doing “Renaissance crossfit” on the 414 steps of the Campanile; the second time I ordered the trip and everything flowed—fewer queues, better […]