When traveling to Florence by car, either in your own vehicle or with a rental car hired to make a route through Italy, you have to consider how to park your car during your visit to the capital of the Toscana.
Florence It is a city whose historic center has restricted car circulation through it for a long time.
In fact, as happens in other cities or towns in Italy, the historic center has limited vehicle access that are not authorized (as will be your case), and also a large part of its streets are pedestrian.
Instead, at visit Florence You have the advantage that the historic center is very concentrated, so that you can walk to most of the visits to be made.
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Limited traffic zones in Florence
Therefore, as a first piece of advice, avoid driving around Florence by car because you run the risk of not realizing it and accessing the limited traffic zone (ZTL), which could result in a hefty fine.
If you are staying in a hotel located in the limited traffic area, the hotel itself can provide you with a temporary authorization to be able to access it to leave or collect the suitcases.
Given this, without a doubt the best option is to stay in a hotel that offers parking to leave the car during your Florence sightseeing tour.
If this is not the case, in practice you now only have one alternative, since the option of parking your car on the streets where access to said hotels is allowed cannot be considered.
The closest to the historic center are all Blue Zone, with a limitation of only two hours of available parking time.
Where there are public parking lots in Florence
Is using them public car parks in Florence, which are not many but they surely facilitate access to your hotel or allow you to visit the city.
The public parking prices in Florence They vary depending on the more or less central location in the city.
The furthest from center of florence They cost you 1,5 euros per hour, although you will have to take a bus to get to the historic center.
Already nearby, the cheapest ones cost two euros per hour and the most expensive ones, up to 3,80 euros per hour.
In the attached link you have the list of public car parks in Florence, with information on its capacity, prices and a map with its location.
One of the most advisable due to its central location is the one located in Station Square, Together with the church of Santa Maria Novella.
Before there was an alternative, also free, which was park the car in the Piazzale Michelangelo, located on the hill of Monte alle Croci.
That is where the viewpoint is located from which you can see the famous Panoramic views of Florence Old Bridge about him Arno river.
In this viewpoint that is in front of the historic center there was a free parking where you could leave the car with peace of mind, as it is an area that is very busy with visitors all day long.
But currently, compared to what you can see in the photos that illustrate this article, said square is pedestrianized, and there is hardly any space for cars to park in that environment, also with blue zone.
Tours in Spanish in Florence
Finally, if once you have left your car safely you want to sign up for a tour, here you have several Florence tours in Spanish,
ORGANIZE your TRIP
- Don't forget your TRAVEL INSURANCE with a 5% discount
- Book the HOTEL for your trip
- RENT a CAR for your trip
- The best TOURS and EXCURSIONS in Spanish
- NO-LINE TICKETS for museums and monuments
- Best FREE TOURS around the world
- Book your TRANSFER from the airport
- eSIM card with INTERNET at the best price
For example, on one of these tours you can do the Guided tour of Florence including the Uffizi and Accademia Galleries, also without having to queue to get tickets.
This way you can deepen your cultural knowledge about the capital of Tuscany.
And here you have information about the best tours and excursions to do from Florence in Tuscany.
Hello,
Well, we were in Florence in June 2015 and rented a car with AVIS. It has been a month since we received an invoice from AVIS for communicating the name of the driver to the municipal police. The amount is 42 euros! The reason for the fine is due to the limited traffic zone. I sent them an email to give me more information about the fine and they simply replied that we must wait for the corresponding authority to notify us.
We have a question because we rented a garage for two days and they made us pay 1 euro per day to carry out the procedure of informing the town hall that we had parked the car there. I have sent an email to the garage to inform me of something else and I have not received a response. I thought I understood that paying the euro, even if we entered the ZTL area by mistake, nothing would happen. Is this correct? Could it be that the garage did not carry out the communication?
I don't know what to think and we already threw away the receipts from the garage.
Can you give me any ideas? We do not know if the fine will arrive and what amount it will be.
Regards,
Thank you
Fine
Thank you very much for the information because I am in Milan and tomorrow we will go to visit Florence
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Dear, do you have to inform your hotel in the center beforehand or can you do it as soon as you arrive?
Thank you very much
Hello, good morning. I intend to rent a car to go to Florence. Is the entire area of Florence a blue zone? Could I not leave the car outside the center to avoid the zone charge during my stay there? What do you advise me? ?.Thank you so much
José Antonio, in the post you have information about all the possible options for parking in Florence. Of course, be careful not to enter limited traffic areas because you will be fined without realizing it.
If you are going to be staying in a hotel, look for one with parking included. And if you are only stopping for one day, the best alternatives are the parking in the Novella Station square (paid) and the one in Michelangelo square (free but far from the center)