Florence with Kids: a family travel guide to the Capital of Italian Renaissance

You need to spend there a least two days to visit famous attractions such as Michelangelo’s David and the Uffizi Museum. The city center is mostly pedestrian and easy to explore also with a stroller.

All the main sites are near and if you stay withing the old walls perimeter you do not need a car or taxi.

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This is why it is strongly recommended to choose an accommodation in the center, even better if it is near the train station. In fact, you can use Florence as a great departure point for day trips to Pisa (to see the leaning tower), Siena, Lucca, San Gimignano and other must-see places in Tuscany.

This is a list of priority things-to-do to in Florence:

- Visit the Uffizi Museum, one of the world's most famous museums that contains masterpieces by Leonardo and Botticelli
- Get lost in the medieval city center :), you will be surprise by fascinting historic corners and squares
- Enter the Cathedral and climb the Brunelleschi's Dome
- Visit Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria
- Walk on the Old Bridge to the Pitti Palace
- See Michelangelo’s David in the Accademia
- Taste local food at the Market of San Lorenzo
- Explore the Church of Santa Croce where Michelangelo is buried

According to some historic sources the modern gelato was born in Florence in the XV century during the Medici family government. Still today in Tuscany there are some of the best makers in Italy and kids would love to try it too. Read more on this article about the the birth of gelato and where to get an authentic one in town.

Last but not least, take all your family to one of the farmers morning markets where they can learn local colorful fruits vegetables and food specialties and taste them. Taste memories sometimes can last longer than images as Marcel Proust taught us.