What Are the Best Neighborhoods for a Chill Trip to Florence and Rome?
In DepthWelcome to Wisdom of the Masses, wherein we tap the global intelligence of our readers on matters you won’t necessarily find covered in Lonely Planet or Tripadvisor.
This edition is going to be personal: I’m turning to you guys for some highly specific insight (and if you’ve got long-lead travel questions yourself, send ‘em in for possible future installments). My husband and I are planning a trip to Italy, which will end in September with a mini-whirlwind: two nights in Florence and one night in Rome. We’re driving into Florence from the countryside and hope to return our car and ditch our bags by noon or 1 pm Friday, which gives us Friday afternoon and all day Saturday in the city. Come Sunday morning, we’ll be taking a direct morning train to Rome. We need to be at FCO little more than 24 hours later, 11 am on Monday morning, for our flight back to the States.