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 Car Hire & Driving in Florence, ItalyWelcome to Florence Car Hire, Italy; available at Florence Airport.Florence region Central Italy Car HireFlorence is a vast and beautiful monument to the Renaissance, the artistic and cultural reawakening of the 15th century, which is there for you to explore in your hire car. Writers such as Dante, Petrarch and Machiavelli contributed to Florence’s proud literary heritage, though it was the paintings and sculptures of artists such as Botticelli, Michelangelo and Donatello that turned the city of Florence into one of the world’s greatest artistic capitals that you can visit in your hire car. Florence Car HireHistoric Florence is a surprisingly compact area as you will find in your hire car; in fact most of the sights can easily be reached on foot. Most visitors to Florence head for the Duomo, the city’s geographical and historical focus, ideally placed to explore the Campanile, Baptistry and Museo dell’Opera del Duomo of Florence. To the south side of Florence, which you can easily get to in your hire car, is Piazza della Signoria, Florence’s political heart, flanked by the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s town hall, and the Uffizi, one of Italy’s leading art galleries. To the east of Florence in your hire car lies the church of Santa Croce, home of frescoes by Giotto and the tombs of some of Florence’s greatest men. To the west side of Florence in your hire car stands Santa Maria Novella, Florence’s other great church, also adorned with fresco filled chapels. Across the Ponte Vecchio in your hire car, which crosses the Arno river that bisects the city, is the Oltrarno district of Florence. This area is dominated by Santo Spirito and the vast Pitti Palace, which contains galleries with works by great Renaissance artists including Raphael and Titan, definitely worth a visit in your hire car while in Florence. Whilst most of Florence is easily accessible on foot, your hire car comes into its own when exploring the rest of the Florence region. Fiesole stands in rolling hilly countryside 8km (5 miles north of Florence in your hire car. Idyllically situated among olive groves, Fiesole is a popular retreat from the city of Florence thanks to its hilltop position which attracts cool breezes; well worth a visit in your hire car while in Florence. Another place worth visiting in your hire car is Prato, which lies to the north west of Florence. While textile factories grid Prato’s outskirts, the city centre retains several important churches and museums. On such sight worth visiting in your hire car is the Duomo, begun in 1211, which is flanked by the Pulpit of the Holy Gridle designed by Donatello and Michelozzo. To the west of Florence in your hire car you will find Vinci, which is famous as the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci. This hilltop town celebrates he genius in the Museo Leonardiano, housed in the 13th century castle which you can visit in your hire car. Situated to the south of Florence Monteriggioni is a gem of a medieval hilltop town which you can visit in your hire car. It was built in 1203 and ten years later became a garrison town. Monteriggioni is completely encircled by high walls with 14 heavily fortified towers, built to guard the northern borders of Siena’s territory against invasion by Florentine armies. Another place to visit in your hire car while in Florence is Torre del Lago Puccini which lies to the south of Florence. Once the home f the opera composer Giacomo Puccini, who is now buried with his wife in their former home, now the Museo Villa Puccini, which you can visit in your hire car. Equally prominent is the Lago Massaciuccoli, a nature reserve for rare and migrant birds, which provides a pretty backdrop for open air performances of Puccini’s works as you will see from your hire car. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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