Florence with Kids: A Children Approved Itinerary, Florence, Italy

Florence city centre is not the easiest place to visit with kids.The city is absolutely stunning, but the kind of experiences it offers are kind of a hard sell to kids, especially very young ones.

The colourful churches and the medieval towers that make adults travel here from the other side of the world only mean so much to small children, and while they are fully able to notice how different everything is from back home, they would still trade any Florentine building with a stop at a playground.

This doesn’t mean that you should give up on the idea of visiting and take a walking tour of Florence city centre with kids: today, we did just that and saw that with a bit of lateral thinking we all had a great day. We wanted to see Florence’s main squares and we devised an itinerary that we hoped would keep us and the kids happy.

One: don’t be overly ambitious. To avoid majour breakdowns and tiredness, we always make sure that the itinerary is short and doesn’t involve too much walking (aka: time on dad’s shoulders). ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).