Basing in the countryside? Florence is an easy strike: trains, parking strategy, and timed-entry planning.
Explore → Get Early AccessBase in the countryside, raid the city — Florence is 30–90 minutes from most of Tuscany, so you can do the Uffizi by day and be back for pool-and-pecorino by evening. The trick is transport strategy: train beats car for the city every time.
Tuscany's rail spine has linked its towns since the 1840s Leopolda line — among Italy's first railways — which is why hill-town bases with a station (or a 15-minute drive to one) unlock the whole region without city parking misery.
Florence's ZTL camera zone fines rental cars mercilessly — park at Villa Costanza's tram lot or a station and ride in; the tickets arrive months later by mail with admin fees attached. Regional trains cost pocket change and the Firenze S.M.N. arrival puts you ten minutes from the Duomo on foot.
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