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Venture off the tourist track in Florence on a 2.5-hour electric bike tour to see where the Renaissance city’s artists and scientists lived and worked. Enjoy an effortless ride through the streets of this popular city with an expert guide.
The countryside around Florence is full of surprises: antique villas, churches, monasteries, magnificent hills planted with olive trees and vineyards, breathtaking views. In these places the greatest Florentine master artists and scientists lived and worked: Michelangelo worked on the fortifications of San Miniato, Leonardo da Vinci painted the “Annunciation” now in the Uffizi Gallery, Galileo Galilei, the first modern scientist, lived in the Villa dell’Ombrellino and Villa Il Gioiello. Enrico Fermi, father of nuclear physics together with Albert Einstein, worked in the Astronomical Observatory of Arcetri placed on the homonymous hill.
Our new electric bicycle and an experienced guide will allow you to discover the beauty of these places in comfort, without effort, under the shade of old cypress trees, where the air is clean and the time has stopped.
Meeting/pick-up point: Shuttle from Pisa, Piazza del Duomo 7 (Tourist Office) to Florence train station at 9:30am (customers have to go to the meeting point 15 minutes before). Meeting point in Florence is in Via dello Studio, 32.
Duration: Bike ride 2.5 hours. Journey time 80 minutes.
Start/opening time: At 4pm.
End/closing time: At 6:30pm. Shuttle from Florence to Pisa at 8:30pm. Meeting time is 15 minutes before the closing time
Languages: English, Italian.
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