Florence Electric Car Tour
By Eco Florence Tour
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9.4 out of 10Free cancellation available
per adult
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 1h 30m
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
- Multiple languages
Overview
With our Tours, all the itineraries are covered aboard state-of-the-art, completely green electric vehicles. You will not miss anything of the great beauty of Florence and you will experience it in a unique and ecologically sustainable way. Travelling with our electric cars offer comfort and safety in both summer and winter thanks to the winter kit with glass doors and heating system, which always guarantee total well-being throughout the journey, even in case of bad weather. Our silent vehicles are suitable for everyone, allowing you to fully enjoy the atmosphere, the views and the glimpse of timeless places, such as Ponte Vecchio or the squares of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce.
Activity location
- Piazza Santa Croce
- Piazza di Santa Croce 16
- 50122, Florence, Italy, Italy
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Cappelle Medicee
- 6 Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini
- 50123, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list
Check availability
Florence Electric Car Tour
- 1h 30m
- English
Starting time: 2:00 pm
Price details
AU$97.68 x 2 AdultsAU$195.36
Total
Until Wed, 18 Dec
What's included, what's not
- WiFi on board
- Taxi service
- There is no admission to attractions
Know before you book
- Wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transport options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travellers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Activity itinerary
Piazza Santa Croce
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Piazza and Basilica of Santa Croce: Piazza Santa Croce is undoubtedly one of the most evocative places in Florence. Located in the eastern sector of the city, formerly a marshy and unhealthy area, the square and the surrounding area take their name from the imposing Basilica managed by the Franciscan order, who settled here since 1226.
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
National Library: Built in the 1930s in Pietraforte, the Library boasts an eclectic style that evokes medieval and Renaissance architectural elements at the same time.
Basilica San Miniato al Monte
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Basilica San Miniato al Monte, panoramic point.
The Basilica of San Miniato is one of the favourite churches of the Florentines, perhaps also because of the beautiful view that can be enjoyed over the whole city.
The church represents, together with the Baptistery of San Giovanni, a splendid example of Florentine Romanesque and is located on top of the so-called "Mons Florentinus" where the first communities
Christians dug their catacombs.
Piazzale Michelangelo
- 5m
Piazzale Michelangelo
The large square, a real balcony over the city, was built between 1865 and 1875 and introduced the tourist concept of panorama for the first time in Florence. It is the work of Joseph
Poggi and was built at the time of Florence, the capital of the new kingdom of Italy, a title that it inherited from Turin in 1865 before selling it to Rome in 1871.
Oltrarno
- 10m
- Admission ticket not included
Oltrarno district and Basilica of Santo Spirito
The Oltrarno district, literally "beyond the Arno", developed since 1200 with the growing arrival of population from the countryside. At first the tower houses were built near the river, then the area experienced a significant expansion in the sixteenth century with the arrival of the Medici court in Palazzo Pitti.
Ponte alla Carraia
- 3m
- Admission ticket not included
Ponte alla Carraia:
Built in 1218, it was called alla Carraia in that
it was used to transport goods on "wagons".
Basilica of Santa Croce
- 10m
- Admission ticket not included
Basilica of Santa Croce
its construction began in 1294 on a design by Arnolfo di Cambio and was completed in 1444. Thanks to the funding of the important families of the district, Santa Croce became one of the largest and most beautiful churches in the city. Its large size also reflects the vastness of the population of the district, with which the Franciscans had immediately established a close and fruitful relationship.
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Medici Riccardi Palace
The powerful Medici dynasty has its origins in Mugello, a hilly region north of Florence.
Urbanised during the 1200s, the Medici soon became one of the richest and most influential families in the city; the building here in front of us is proof of this: Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
The palace is a project by Michelozzo, commissioned around 1445 by Cosimo the Elder, patriarch of the Medici family.
Basilica di San Lorenzo
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Basilica of San Lorenzo
The Basilica of San Lorenzo stands on the ruins of the previous paleochristian place of worship
bore the name and that it was the Basilica outside the walls of Roman Florentia before the construction of
Santa Reparata, the city's first cathedral. By the will of Giovanni di Bicci, father of Cosimo il
Old de 'Medici, it was completely rebuilt by the young architect Filippo
Brunelleschi starting from 1419.
Cappelle Medicee
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Medici Chapels
The New Sacristy, in the left transept of the church, and the so-called Chapel of the Princes behind it, form the Medici Chapels, a real mausoleum of the ruling family.
Santa Maria Novella (Pass by)
Basilica and Piazza Santa Maria Novella
it is one of the first great basilicas
Florentine and mother church of the powerful Dominican order established in this place as early as
two hundred with a large convent. The square in front welcomed the numerous faithful recalled by the
sermons by the friars and was enlarged several times to become one of the largest squares in the city.
Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti
- 3m
- Admission ticket not included
Area and Church of Ognissanti
In the western part of the historic centre opens the area of Borgognissanti, an area that in medieval Florence housed the Umiliati friars, one of the most industrious mendicant orders in the city, famous above all for the processing of wool, an activity favoured by the proximity of the river.
Ponte Santa Trinita
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Santa Trinita bridge
the most beautiful and one of the most loved by Florentines. Erected in 1252, it was
destroyed by a flood of the Arno in 1557 and rebuilt on a project by Bartolomeo Ammannati, a pupil of Michelangelo.
Ponte Vecchio
- 3m
- Admission ticket not included
Ponte Vecchio and Vasari Corridor
Dating back to Roman times, built at the narrowest point of the river with stone pillars and floor
of decking in wooden planks, the bridge was destroyed by a flood of the river in 1333 and rebuilt in
1345 so solidly that it has reached the present day, resisting all the numerous
floods of the Arno over the centuries, including that of 1966, the most devastating
absolutely.
and Vasari Corridor, so called from the name of his
builder, Giorgio Vasari. Built in 1565 in just five months, this one-mile long airway
kilometre, it served as a private passage between the government buildings in Palazzo Vecchio and the Court
Medici in Palazzo Pitti.
Palazzo Pitti
- 5m
- Admission ticket not included
Palazzo Pitti and Piazza Pitti in Piazza Pitti, dominated on its top by the grandiose.
Palazzo Pitti, built in 1440 by Luca Pitti on a project by Filippo Brunelleschi. Such was the ambition of the enterprising and wealthy merchant to overcome the pomp of the Medici and the Strozzi,
another very rich Florentine family, that Luca Pitti wanted its construction of such a size as not to find equal in the whole city.
Location
Activity location
- Piazza Santa Croce
- Piazza di Santa Croce 16
- 50122, Florence, Italy, Italy
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Cappelle Medicee
- 6 Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini
- 50123, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
- Palazzo Pitti
- 1 Piazza de' Pitti
- 50125, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
- Corso dei Tintori, 11/R
- 11/R Corso dei Tintori
- 50122, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
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