Fiesole

Fiesole is a city in Tuscany close to Florence.



Get the number 7 bus from San Marco piazza in Florence - Fiesole is the last stop. Tickets can be purchased from any tabacchi and cost between €1.20 and €2.

Get around
Fiesole is small, so the best way to get around once you're there is on foot.

See

 * Remnants of Etruscan walls.
 * Roman baths.
 * Roman theatre.
 * Palazzo Comunale.
 * The Duomo.
 * The view of Florence.

Eat
Vinandro on the main square serves delicious typical Tuscan food and wine in a rustic ambience, desserts a particular speciality. Part of the Slow Food movement. Book ahead at the weekend.

Nearby


The spectacles include: the ; the Fonte di Giove, whose copy was placed by the Demidoffs at the end of the nineteenth century; the two sponge goals; the chapel designed by Buontalenti, with a hexagonal plan with an external loggia, near which the last princess Demidoff is buried; the Fonte del Mugnone, whose statue was sculpted by Giambologna (1577); the Peschiera della Maschera, also used as a swimming pool and equipped for hot baths; the Great Aviary; the Pheasant; the Grotta di Cupido, built by Buontalenti in 1577; the neoclassical Casino of Montili, built around 1820 by the architect Luigi de Cambray-Digny. Throughout the park there are centuries-old trees, including oaks, English oaks, cedars and horse chestnuts, real natural monuments full of charm.