Self-guided walking tour

Florence Walking Tour: Markets and Historic Cafés of Florence (about 1 hour, 7 stops)

7 stops in walking order through Florence, from Caffè Gilli to Mercato di Sant'Ambrogio: 3.6 km on foot, about 43 min of walking, 1 h 10 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Markets and Historic Cafés of Florence”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total: 1 h 10 min
Distance: 3.6 km
Walking: 43 min
Stops: 7

The stops, in walking order

Caffè Gilli
A historic café in Palazzo Levi at the corner of Piazza della Repubblica and Via Roma.
9 min walk · 780 m
Mercato di San Lorenzo
The open-air market around Florence’s covered central market building, known for clothing, leather goods and souvenirs.
8 min walk · 640 m
Palazzo Antinori
A Renaissance palace with a restrained stone front and an intimate courtyard of rounded arches, cross-vaults, and carved pietra serena columns.
5 min walk · 390 m
Piazza della Repubblica
A broad Florentine square shaped by nineteenth-century urban rebuilding.
3 min walk · 240 m
Fontana del Porcellino
The Porcellino is a fountain beside the Mercato Nuovo, featuring Pietro Tacca’s wild boar.
9 min walk · 770 m
Piazza di Santa Croce
A broad Florentine square dominated by its basilica, the burial place of Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, and many other prominent Italians.
10 min walk · 830 m
Mercato di Sant'Ambrogio
A market hall in Piazza Ghiberti, designed by Giuseppe Mengoni and opened in 1873.