A free morning walk through the city, timed to the hour, starting at the Duomo at eight. It’s the route Emma takes in the novel, and it holds up just as well when you’re the one doing the walking.
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Florence has roughly four hundred things worth seeing and you have somewhere between six and nine hours. So you research. You find a forum post from 2019 saying the Uffizi takes ninety minutes, and another one swearing it takes four, and by the time you close the laptop you have a list of forty-one places and no earthly idea what order to put them in.
Then you land. You walk out of the hotel at half past nine into a city that has been awake since six, and you lose the first forty minutes standing in a piazza, deciding.
This is a plan for the morning, so you can stop deciding and start looking.
What’s in the PDF
- The route from Piazza del Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio, with how long each stop really takes
- Where to be at eight, and why that hour does more for your day than any ticket you’ll buy
- Orsanmichele: the old grain market with a guild saint in every outside niche, two minutes off Via dei Calzaiuoli and walked straight past by almost everyone
- A map you can print, and a version sized for a phone you’ll be holding in one hand
- What to eat before an 11:45 museum ticket, and why you drink the coffee standing at the bar
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