•Day 1 (Firenze S M N, Museum
close Monday 8:15-6:50)
11:00-1:00P 1. David-Florence
Academy of Fine Arts €8
2.
Eat Two Scoops of Gelato Every Day
1:00-2:00P Lunch Il Vegetariano
2:00-3:00P 4. Duomo & Piazza:
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore = Cupola
del Brunelleschi (10-4:30P)
5.
The Baptistery of St. John or Florence
Baptistery
6.
Giotto's Bell Tower
3:00-4:00P 11. Check Out the Sculpture at Bargello
National Museum
4:00-6:50P 3.
Uffizi
Gallery
7:00P 8.
Watch the Arno Pass Under the Ponte
Vecchio
Dinner Trattoria Casalinga
8:00-9:00P 7. Get
the Perfect Postcard View from Panoramic
Night View - Piazzale Michelangelo
walk
back (36min) to Hotel or by taxi (12min)
•Day 2 The Mall Shopping
Busitalia/SITA
bus depot Departs 8:50/9:10/9:30A-4:30P every 30min Return
9:45/10:50/12:00-7:00P every 30min
10:00-11:00A 12.
Basilica
di San Lorenzo/ San Lorenzo Market/ Cappelle Medicee=Medici
Chapel/ Laurentian Medici Library
11:00-12:00P 9. Piazza
della Repubblica
12:00-1:00P Lunch Da' Vinattieri (Lunch Bread)
2:00-3:00P Pay
Your Respects at Florence’s Famous Graves13. Piazza
della Signoria/ Palazzo Vecchio/ 16. Basilica
of Santa Croce
(“celebrity” tombs:Galileo, Machiavelli, Rossini,
Ghiberti, and Michelangelo) cioccolata calda at Rivoire (and sit outside if you can get a
table). For a bit of the macabre, find the circular marble plaque toward the
middle of the piazza that
marks the spot where the monk Savonarola (the “bonfire of the vanities” guy)
was burnt at the stake in 1498. (closed) 10.
The Boboli Gardens (Closed Mon) / 14. Pitti Palace (Closed Mon)
3:00-4:00P 15. Museum
of Opera of Saint Maria of Fiore (Open
Mon 9:00-7:30PM)
4:00-6:50P 6.
Giotto's
Bell Tower
(Monday 8:15-6:50)
7:00P Dinner Da Nerbone and/or Casa del Vino