- Florence - Rick Steves Travel Forum
So with just 3 days I would skip Piazza della Repubblica, Medici Palace, the market and Palazzo Vecchio and replace them with Piazza della Signoria, Duomo Museum, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella and San Marco
- Orvieto Arezzo - Rick Steves Travel Forum
Sounds like the making of a pleasant trip At FCO [Fiumicino Aeroporto], the Trenitalia app is a time-saver for tickets after retrieving yiour luggage First thing at the Orvieto station, buy tickets for the funicular and buses at the tabacchi Note that the funicular across the street goes only partly up to town [Piazza Cahen] Here are the buses: Bus 1: Railway Station to Piazza della
- Laundromat in Florence - Rick Steves Travel Forum
We are following the Rick Steves rules and are packing very light However we will need to do some laundry by the time we get to Florence We are staying near the Piazza della Repubblica at the Hotel Davanzati Any suggestions for reasonably priced laundry service?
- Metro - time to allow to get to Colosseo Ottaviano stops
The Repubblica station is the one you'd take to go to the Vatican Ottaviano stop (Metro line A) Well, you have a good bit of walking to do IF you only take the metro the Rome metro is much more limited in usefulness than, say, the Paris metro
- Florence Roof Top Bar Food - Rick Steves Travel Forum
Sits right above Piazza Repubblica, and offers panoramic views around the city's historic center Given the referenced mobility concerns, arrival is via the store's Elevator so very easy to navigate
- Roma Pass - Rick Steves Travel Forum
You cannot buy bus tickets on the bus (so they they said), but being so close to Repubblica metro stop, I just hopped down the stairs to the machines and back to the bus stop with tickets for our going and returning (as dinner took longer than 100 minutes)
- Best base for three months in Italy - Rick Steves Travel Forum
After a week or two, the evening Passeggiata and activity in Piazza della Repubblica may become a bit boring A larger centre (Firenze, Siena?) would provide more options in that regard
- #2 Singer in Florence - Rick Steves Travel Forum
The performers at Piazza Della Repubblica do rotate - we cut a rug to an excellent jazz group there one night - so my guess would be that your singer may not be there every evening, or only at certain times
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