Day trips

Day trips from Firenze

39 towns within 90 minutes

Closest first. Fiesole is 24 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.

Fiesole
Province: Firenze · 295 m
24 minutes from Firenze. An Etruscan hilltop above Florence, still looking down on what later replaced it.
Carmignano
Province: Prato · 189 m
39 minutes from Firenze. A Medici village at 189 meters on the Montalbano slopes, where Etruscan tumuli sit below the Renaissance villas.
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Pistoia
Province: Pistoia · 67 m
39 minutes from Firenze. Italy's nursery capital and the medieval Tuscan rival that gave its name to the pistol, a quietly extraordinary centro storico 30 minutes from Florence by train and Italy's Capital of Culture 2017.
Barberino di Mugello
Province: Firenze · 272 m
43 minutes from Firenze. The Mugello gateway at 272 meters where the Medici family kept its first country villas, with Michelozzo's Cafaggiolo and the artificial Lago di Bilancino below.
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Greve in Chianti
Province: Firenze · 236 m
44 minutes from Firenze. The market town on the Greve river, with a triangular piazza arcaded since the sixteenth century.
Certaldo
Province: Firenze · 67 m
46 minutes from Firenze. The brick-built upper town in the Valdelsa where Boccaccio spent his last years, twenty-five kilometers from Florence on the medieval road to Siena.
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Montecatini-Terme
Province: Pistoia · 27 m
46 minutes from Firenze. Eleven thermal springs in a Liberty-style park at the foot of the Apennines.
Cerreto Guidi
Province: Firenze · 123 m
50 minutes from Firenze. The Medici hunting villa above the Padule di Fucecchio, where Cosimo I sent his court for the marshland game and Buontalenti built four ramps of stairs.
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San Miniato
Province: Pisa · 150 m
50 minutes from Firenze. The hilltop town between Pisa and Florence that produces a quarter of Tuscany's white truffles and once held the imperial seat of Otto I.
Vinci
Province: Firenze · 97 m
50 minutes from Firenze. The hill town on Montalbano where Leonardo was born in 1452, with a ship-shaped castle that now holds his machines.
Montecarlo
Province: Lucca · 163 m
53 minutes from Firenze. A walled hill village at 163 meters above the Lucca plain, founded by Emperor Charles IV in 1333 and named for him, surrounded by twenty wineries.
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San Gimignano
Province: Siena · 334 m
61 minutes from Firenze. A walled hill town at 334 meters with 14 surviving medieval towers, UNESCO listed since 1990 and the home of Vernaccia.
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Arezzo
Province: Arezzo · 296 m
62 minutes from Firenze. Tuscany's other set-piece: a 96,000-resident Etruscan-Roman-medieval hilltop city 80 km southeast of Florence.
Loro Ciuffenna
Province: Arezzo · 330 m
62 minutes from Firenze. A Valdarno village at 330 meters straddling the Ciuffenna torrent, with the oldest working water mill in Tuscany and a Lombard pulpit two kilometers up the road.
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Pontedera
Province: Pisa · 14 m
62 minutes from Firenze. The Valdera's working capital on the Pisa–Florence line, where Piaggio turned a bombed aircraft plant into the birthplace of the Vespa in 1946.
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Castellina in Chianti
Province: Siena · 578 m
63 minutes from Firenze. A Chianti hill town at 578 meters on the watershed between the Arno and the Ombrone, with an Etruscan tumulus, a Brunelleschi-reinforced wall and a covered medieval walkway around its edge.
Poppi
Province: Arezzo · 437 m
64 minutes from Firenze. The Casentino borgo at 437 meters above the field where Dante fought at Campaldino in June 1289.
Montaione
Province: Firenze · 341 m
67 minutes from Firenze. A medieval glassmaking and truffle borgo at 341 meters above the Valdelsa, with a Franciscan replica of Jerusalem in the woods nearby.
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Lucca
Province: Lucca · 19 m
68 minutes from Firenze. The provincial capital ringed by four kilometers of intact sixteenth-century walls, birthplace of Puccini and the only fully walled Italian city of its scale.
Lucignano
Province: Arezzo · 400 m
69 minutes from Firenze. A walled elliptical hill town at 400 meters between Siena and Arezzo, planned in medieval concentric rings around the goldsmith's reliquary called the Tree of Life.
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Siena
Province: Siena · 322 m
73 minutes from Firenze. The medieval rival of Florence at 322 meters on three hills, with a shell-shaped piazza where seventeen contrade race bareback horses twice a year.
Castiglion Fiorentino
Province: Arezzo · 342 m
74 minutes from Firenze. A walled hill town at 342 meters between Arezzo and Cortona, where Etruscan walls support the medieval Cassero.
Vicopisano
Province: Pisa · 12 m
74 minutes from Firenze. A medieval river port rebuilt by Brunelleschi in 1434 after Florence took the town from Pisa.
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Castelnuovo Berardenga
Province: Siena · 351 m
77 minutes from Firenze. A commune of 351 meters, the last castle Siena built against Florence, in 1366.
Rapolano Terme
Province: Siena · 334 m
77 minutes from Firenze. A Sienese thermal town of 38-degree calcium-sulphur waters and travertine quarries feeding facades beyond its borders.
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Viareggio
Province: Lucca · 2 m
78 minutes from Firenze. The Versilia capital, a Carnival city on the Tuscan coast that turned into a Belle Époque resort when the railway arrived.
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Pisa
Province: Pisa · 4 m
79 minutes from Firenze. Maritime republic on the Arno, twelve kilometers from the Ligurian Sea, with the leaning bell tower at the center of a single UNESCO-listed walled compound.
Peccioli
Province: Pisa · 144 m
80 minutes from Firenze. Borgo dei Borghi 2024 in the Valdera hills, a medieval village that funded a public contemporary-art program with revenue from its landfill plant.
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San Giuliano Terme
Province: Pisa · 10 m
80 minutes from Firenze. A thermal spa ten kilometers from Pisa, where the springs were bathed since the Romans called them Aquae Pisanae.
Chiusi
Province: Siena · 398 m
83 minutes from Firenze. The Etruscan city of King Porsenna at 398 meters above the Val di Chiana, with one of Italy's major Etruscan museums and tunnels carved beneath the streets.
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Forte dei Marmi
Province: Lucca · 2 m
84 minutes from Firenze. The Versilia luxury beach built around an eighteenth-century marble-loading fort, with 99 bagni concessions and a Wednesday market that draws Milan.
Cortona
Province: Arezzo · 494 m
85 minutes from Firenze. An Etruscan lucumonia at 494 meters, with two kilometers of walls older than Rome.
Trequanda
Province: Siena · 453 m
85 minutes from Firenze. A village of 1,166 in three hilltop borghi between Crete Senesi and Val di Chiana, with the terracotta workshops of Petroio holding to a five-hundred-year craft.
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Volterra
Province: Pisa · 531 m
85 minutes from Firenze. The Etruscan acropolis of Velathri at 531 meters, the alabaster town that has been carving the same stone for three thousand years.
Anghiari
Province: Arezzo · 430 m
87 minutes from Firenze. A walled medieval town at 430 meters over the upper Tiber valley, where Florence beat Milan in 1440 and Leonardo started the fresco he never finished.
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Pietrasanta
Province: Lucca · 14 m
87 minutes from Firenze. The marble-processing town under the Apuan Alps, worked by Michelangelo, Henry Moore, Joan Miró and Fernando Botero.
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Camaiore
Province: Lucca · 34 m
89 minutes from Firenze. The Versilia commune that runs from the mountains to the sea, a Roman Campus Maior on the Via Francigena with a beach at its western end.
Livorno
Province: Livorno · 3 m
89 minutes from Firenze. Tuscany's working port and Medici-planned 'New City' — a 16th-century planned town built on reclaimed coast, with a Venice-like canal quarter, the Quattro Mori monument, and a 1.5-km seafront promenade that locals call the world's most beautiful balcony.
Montepulciano
Province: Siena · 605 m
89 minutes from Firenze. A Renaissance hill town at 605 meters on a limestone ridge, aging its Sangiovese-based red in vaulted cellars beneath the palazzi.

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