Day 5 of 8 · Wednesday, August 19

Market, David & the artisans

Florence's stomach in the morning, its most famous man at four.

Home by 9:00 PM ~7 km Feet only ~€40 tickets + market lunch; class €140-200/pair if taken

The plan

8 stops
8:30
AM
Walk north through the still-quiet Duomo square

circle the Baptistery doors.

Full story →
9:15
AM
Mercato Centrale

the real market before 11. Buy porcini and olive oil for home (checked bags).

Full story →
10:30
AM
Option A: cooking class (pasta + ragù

lunch included). Option B: Medici Chapels (Michelangelo's Night and Day) and San Lorenzo cloisters.

1:30
PM
Lunch upstairs in the food hall (lampredotto for

the brave) unless the class fed you.

3:00
PM
Apartment pause through the anvil hours
4:15
PM
Accademia: the Prisoners corridor

then David. Circle him fully; watch the brow change from the slingshot side.

Full story →
6:00
PM
Cross the river for Oltrarno workshop windows

bookbinders, gilders, silversmiths on Via Santo Spirito and Borgo San Jacopo.

7:30
PM
Dinner: La Casalinga (family-run since 1963) or

Osteria dell'Enoteca for something dressier.

Reservations

Accademia timed entry ~4 PM (BOOK NOW)
Cooking class 10 AM-2 PM (optional, decide + book)

Dinner call

La Casalinga (queue early) or Osteria dell'Enoteca