Day trips from Florence

The following towns, cities or villas can be easily reached from florence. Some of the further locations are places in which you could easily spend more time; we list them here simply as places you can feasably visit (some more easily than others) in a day.

See also the Mini-Guides section of Arttrav!!

Short Excursions
Prato: highly underestimated. Take a local train and stay the day. Good shopping too.
Fiesole (by day or night) (Bus #7)
Villa Medici at Careggi (structure and garden - official website link)
The park at villa Demidoff (Pratolino, closed December)
Walk from Coverciano to Maiano
Walk From Ponte a Mensola to Castello Vincigliata on via Vincigliata
Settignano (end of bus #10)
Montesenario (by car)
Medici Villa Poggio a Caiano (link to official website)
Medici Villas Petraia and Castello (garden only)
Greve in Chianti
Impruneta and her miraculous Madonna

Full day trips by train, car or bus
Go to the beach in maremma or viareggio
Siena
Lucca
Pistoia
Arezzo
Cinque Terre
Pisa
Parma
Bologna