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Florence - Ponte Vecchio photo

ABOVE: The Ponte Vecchio, or "Old Bridge," connects the city center with the Pitti Palace and other sights on the south side of the River Arno.

Airports

Two airports serve Florence: the small but convenient Aeroporto di Firenze (FLR), which is on the city's outskirts; and Galileo Galilei Airport (PSA) in Pisa, 1-2 hours away by train.

See our Airport Hotels page for advice on ground transportation between the airports and central Florence.

Local Transportation

ATAF
Click the Union Jack icon for English-language information on Florence's city bus network. (Tip: To avoid a fine, validate your ticket in the stamping machine when you board a bus.)

Regional and National Services

SITA - Toscana
Regional buses offer frequent service to cities throughout Tuscany from the SITA bus terminal just west of the S. Maria Novella railroad station. (The site is in Italian, but the "Linea" timetables--which are in Adobe PDF format--are easy to figure out.)

Travel Planner: Italy: Transportation
This page from the Italy section of our Europe Travel Planner has links to Italian railroad timetables and driving information.

Getting to Florence from Livorno

If you're arriving in Livorno on a cruise ship and want to visit Florence for the day, follow this advice from Australian reader Dominic Wild:

"From Livorno harbour, take a taxi to the railway station (euro 20 for two couples, Sep 2012), then purchase four return ticket to Florence ("Quatri biglietti per Fiorenze ritorno, per favore" in broken Italian) and ask for the track number ("Il numero dei binari?").

"In Florence, walk to the Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio and see Michaelangelo's David, walk back to the station, get off the train in Pisa. At the newsstand, buy a return bus ticket for the tower (torre) for the Linea Rosso (Red Bus Line), cross the street to the bus stop with the red marker, look at the tower and climb it but make sure you get back to the ship on time. Cross the street to the bus stop opposite, back on the train to Livorno. You may have to ask a local for the track number as sometimes a train to Rome also stops in Livorno. Another taxi for euro 20 to the ship from the railway station."


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