Buongiorno from beautiful and chilly Florence, Italy!
View of Florence from the hilltop gardens of Michelangelo 😜
Tour guide Cindy and I have visited Florence several times before and I found it to be a little too crowded with very young tourists for my taste. However, tour guide Cindy insisted that we go for a walking tour as this is our last visit to this area.
Train station Florence. We decided to train into Florence from our home in Pontassieve. It’s much, much simpler then driving and parking in Florence, which is a disaster.Ok, walking tour time, Mercato Centrale, the central market of Florence. It’s Monday but still busy.You can’t be in Italy without fresh pasta shops.Fresh fruit and vegetables.Biggest Biscotti bar I’ve ever seen. Baked right on sight, quite impressive.Specialty foods and smoked meats.Of course fantastic Beef selection. Tuscany is known for its steaks. Cindy and I laugh, we’ve never seen a cow in Tuscany, just beef steaks. 🤔Upstairs in the Mercato, they have installed a huge food court. Fantastic offerings and several beautiful bars. It’s just being set up when we walked through the market at 10 AM. We stopped back later, it was packed. The Food court is open until 12:00 AM. Focaccia pizza, they look fantastic!Nice bakery. We’re not in France anymore. 🥲Bro is so busy, he needs two pizza ovens.Charcuterie boards, delicious
The food court was very impressive. Florence must have at least 5,000 restaurants. The food scene here is tops.
Ok, let’s walk. Florence is famous for leather products, (must be all those cows). Shops and stalls line the streets.Basilica of San Lorenzo.Battistero di San Giovanni with the Duomo in the background. Duomo – Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (the third largest cathedral in the world).Duomo, wow!Museo del Bargello.Basilica di Santa Croce.
Florence is a beautiful city, and not too packed today!
Piazza Della Signor.The very famous Ponte Vecchio, home to lots of gold and jewelry shops.Walking up the hill to Piazzale Michelangelo, the top of Florence.Florence from the top at Piazzale Michelangelo.Beautiful city, not too full of tourists. We were able to walk 25,000 steps.You know what that means, Italian lunch✔️😜Beautiful city, fantastic sights and a splurge on lunch!Quick train ride and short drive into the hills and a fire at the Villa.✔️😜
Road trip tomorrow. Might be some Tuscan wine involved
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2 thoughts on “1/30/23 Florence Italy”
Love Florence. Biscotti bar is impressive. Some tourist drove down the Ponte Vecchio last week, ostensibly looking for a parking spot. They stopped him and gave him a 500 euro fine.
Trafton’s European Adventure Part Two 
Love Florence. Biscotti bar is impressive. Some tourist drove down the Ponte Vecchio last week, ostensibly looking for a parking spot. They stopped him and gave him a 500 euro fine.
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