Florence Trips & Tours

The capital of Tuscany and the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence is one of those cities you think you know… until you stand under the Duomo’s terracotta dome and realise how utterly beautiful it really is. Red tiles and cobbled streets; the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Uffizi; Michelangelo’s David and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus; frescoed chapels and marble courtyards – the art, architecture and history is almost unbelievable. But there’s also the present: the goldsmiths of the Ponte Vecchio, leather artisans rubbing shoulders with ice-cool fashion on the Via de’Tornabuoni, and the buzz of the Mercato Centrale. You could spend weeks here and barely scratch the surface, but if you catch the late-afternoon light shimmering on the Arno, before settling in for a charred bistecca alla Fiorentina in a tucked-away trattoria, you’ll understand exactly why Florence still holds the world in its thrall.