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The current electric mini-buses are the: C1, C2, C3 & C4 (roughly equal to line D on the map)

The buses run Monday to Saturday, from (roughly) 7 am until 9 or 10 pm, every ten minutes (more or less), and from around 8:30 am to 8:30 pm on Sundays and holidays (check the links below for specific times).

You can find timetables on the AUTOLINEE TOSCANE website (links below), but there are no maps (even though it says there are!). They do have tables/lists of the stops but the route on an actual map.

Let us know in the comments if you find these links broken - they are to the main page for each route, where you will find both summer and winter schedules, as well as any status updates for the line:

• C1 Timetable
• C2 Timetable
• C3 Timetable
• C4 Timetable

This is a really interesting map, taken from Baedeker's Northern Italy Handbook For Travellers, by Karl Baedeker, Fourteenth Remodelled Edition 1913 (this title is mentioned several times in the film "A Room With a View" and was integral to the "Grand Tour").

In the link above there is an audio book sample where you can here a mention of the electric trams that you can see on this map - these trams were running if Florence over 100 years ago!

Map scan courtesy of the The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas.

Inside the old city walls of Florence (well, what used to be the walls and is now the viale or large avenue circling the city), driving (and parking!) is limited to registered vehicles (city residents, buses, taxis, etc.) except for a small area around the main train station (Firenze SMN or Santa Maria Novella). Florentines call this the ZTL, or Zona Traffico Limitato. It is important to be aware of the ZTL and it's rules to avoid receiving large fines for driving your car into the center of Florence (or the ever expanding zone around it).

You can drive into the center with a car, a rental or your personal vehicle, if you are staying at a hotel (or other special use cases), but the hotel/business etc. must let the traffic police know your license plate number ahead of time and get your vehicle on the temporary "Lista bianca" or "white list". Note that even with this access you are expected to go to and from you accommodation and/or parking only - it doesn't give you permission to cruise all about town. Alternatively, if possible, you can (and should) acquire a "Temporary ZTL Access" pass (there is information here from the Servizi alla Strada and also this from the Municipality of Florence). In the past when renting a car from inside the center of Florence we were never given a pass to show in the car - this may have changed. Full documentation of the ZTL(in Italian) is available here.

On the map below (click it to download a PDF version suitable for printing), you can see the ZTL entry points (red and blue "T"s) and the various zones by letter (which correspond to where residents can park). The blue "T"s are where you can enter with a car or other motorized vehicle - the red "T"s are for buses and other public and emergency vehicles only, and even with a permit to enter (resident or tourist), you are not allowed enter at the red "T" signs (I know from personal experience - and it was an expensive lesson).

The hours of limited entry are currently:

• Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 20:00
• Saturdays from 07:30 to 16:00
• Sunday is open

During the summer there are additional closing hours which can change from year to year but in general run from the first Thursday of April to the first Sunday of October and is called the "ZTL NOTTURNA ESTIVA". The below hours are just a sample (from the summer of 2022), these may change from year to year:

• from 23:00 on Thursday to 3:00 on Friday
• from 23:.00 on Friday to 3:00 on Saturday
• from 23:00 on Saturday to 3:00 on Sunday

So remember - if you are just coming to Florence as stop on a day trip, or you are staying at a self catering apartment or Airbnb (i.e. not a hotel), you can not legally drive into (most of) the center unless you get a pass first (although we have heard stories of people doing so and not getting tickets, but you are really taking a chance). If you do drive into the ZTL without proper permission the fines are steep and the local authorities are getting better and better at finding you and making sure you pay. In any case, this is something to be aware and careful of! There are a few tips and tricks as mentioned above (Sundays are open, as are nights from 7:30 PM to 7:30 AM, but not in the summer, etc.). Lastly, the darker green shaded streets and piazzas are "zona pedonale" or pedestrian zones, and you shouldn't be driving on them at all!

For reference, here is an older Florence ZTL map - you can see how the zone has grown in the ensuring years:

There is also a good Google Map of the ZTL available - we are not the authors of this map but it does appear to be fairly accurate:

And lastly, here is a very good video that sums up everything mentioned above and specifically mentions how to avoid getting ZTL tickets:

One last tip for pedestrians: if you are walking by or near one of the ZTL entrance points, make sure to look both ways before crossing the street - drivers have been known to go into the oncoming lane at some of these entrance points to avoid the cameras!

Find your perfect hotel for your stay in Florence with our interactive hotel map. We'll also be adding links to specific hotels on pages throughout our site in the coming months.

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The Medici ruled Florence and most of the surrounding territory almost continuously from the early 15th century to the early 18th century. A large part of their legacy is the constellation of villas they left: a network of rural buildings, farms, hunting lodges, and villas used as country palaces by the Medici for vacations, hunts, parties, and family celebrations.

Click on the pins in the map for more information about the many villas of the Medici that surround Florence:

An annotated map with photos and locations of the churches, cathedrals, basilicas and monasteries of Florence, Italy.

Our new and improved dining maps are coming throughout 2014. For now, check out our Santa Croce Restaurants section - most of them have their own maps.

Here is another useful map of Florence - a satellite view (with street names, etc.) that you can zoom into, pan around and drag.

This is something new and cool - a custom map of Florence that you can search for hotels, museums, etc. Check it out. More like this on the way for other cities and towns.