Car hire Florence

The best area to find an accommodation in Florence can be found in its historic center, as you will be really close to the most important cultural points of the city.

For those of you who have a rental car in Florence, the best way to enjoy the city is to find your accommodation in the outskirts in what is known as Tuscany Village, for it is truly close to the center of the city and, most importantly, because you can know another part of Florence in the purest Italia style.

Inside the historic center of the city, there are certain areas which are better than others. On the one hand, the Piazza de la Signoria is considered to be the political and cultural center of Florence, the Piazza del Duomo, considered as the most centric point of the city and where you can find Florence Cathedral.

Also, you can look for an accommodation in Santa María Novella, as it is the closest area to the train station, which is close to the historic center as well.

If, on the contrary, you prefer a much cheaper and economic area, go to the Via Faenza and its surroundings, for it is a really beautiful zone with alleys, small shops and restaurants of all kinds.

The most common way to get to Florence is through Florence Airport, though it is also very popular to land in Pisa Airport, as it is located only 100 kilometers west from Florence.

There is an option rising in the last few years to get to Florence. Travelers land directly in Pisa since Vueling set a low cost route from Barcelona to Pisa. To this, you could add the fact that the price of the low cost company is another reason to land in this city and not directly in Florence.

Vueling also has direct flights from Barcelona to Florence, though the deals are much more expensive, for Ryanair is the low cost company which serves most of the flights to Florence Airport. Moreover, with Ryanair you can also fly to Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Madrid, Santander, Seville, Tenerife and Valencia.

The advantage of Florence Airport is that it is located only 10 kilometers away from the city of Florence, so it would be much easier to get to the city with your rental car from this airport, as it won’t take you more than 15 minutes.

There is nothing else like going to Florence and trying its famous antipasti, what is known as hors d’oeuvres, and order some of their specialties such as the crostini, which is fried bread covered with several appetizers, or the famous bruschetta. Some of the real specialties from Florence are the ribollita, a specialty made with black cabbage, beans, several vegetables and recooked hard bread.

Their stews are truly delicious as well, especially the stracotto, a beef with potatos stew cooked for many hours with a wide variety of vegetables as celery, carrot and served with a Tuscany wine.

It is impossible to talk about Florentine gastronomy without mentioning the Lampredotto, a typical way of serving tripe in Florence, usually as very thin slices server either on a plate or, generally, as a sandwich. Lampredotto can be typically found in street stalls, so they are not very expensive.

Florence is a destination with an ideal location to know nearby places of high reputation. The following locations are really close to the city and you can access all of them with your rental car in Florence. Some of our recommendations are: