På gång i Florence (Firenze), Italy under året

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Pitti Immagine trade fairs

• Regel

  Booked slots at the big museums

  1 jan – 31 decBoka tidigt

  The Uffizi and the Accademia sell timed entry and turning up without one costs hours between March and October. The city also charges a nightly tourist tax on every bed. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Pitti Immagine trade fairs

  8–18 jan · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  Menswear buyers fill the Fortezza and every good hotel in the city in the second week of January, and again in the second week of June. The dearest week of an otherwise cheap month. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Christmas to Epiphany (24 dec – 6 jan)

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  Scoppio del Carro

  5 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångt

  On Easter morning a cart of fireworks is dragged by white oxen to the cathedral door and set off by a mechanical dove fired down a wire from the altar. It takes about ten minutes. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Mest folk — Scoppio del Carro, Spring bank-holiday bridges

• Helg

  Spring bank-holiday bridges

  25 apr – 2 junNationell helgdagTrångtBoka tidigt

  Liberation Day (25 April), Labour Day (1 May) and Republic Day (2 June) are public holidays, and when one falls near a weekend Italians bridge it into a long break, the ponte. Those weekends bring domestic crowds, fuller trains and higher room rates, and some shops close on the day. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Scoppio del Carro (5 apr)

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Spring bank-holiday bridges

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Spring bank-holiday bridges (25 apr – 2 jun)

Mest folk — Spring bank-holiday bridges, Calcio Storico and San Giovanni

• Festival

  Calcio Storico and San Giovanni

  10–24 junSportevenemangTrångtStängningar

  Semi-finals in the middle of June and the final always on 24 June, played on sand in Piazza Santa Croce behind a parade in armour, then fireworks off Piazzale Michelangelo that night. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Spring bank-holiday bridges (25 apr – 2 jun)

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Italy, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Risk

  Basin heat

  1 jul – 25 augExtrem värme

  The city sits in a bowl in the Arno valley with no breeze and stone that holds the day's heat overnight. Queues in the open, which is most of them, are the real problem. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Mest folk — Ferragosto, Summer holidays i Italy

• Helg

  Ferragosto

  5–25 augSkollovStängningarTrångt

  Florentines leave and their trattorias close for a fortnight, while the coach tours carry on regardless. The queues stay; the reason to eat here does not. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Basin heat (1 jul – 25 aug)

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Italy, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Natur

  Olive harvest and new oil

  25 okt – 10 dec · vanligtvis

  The hills at Fiesole and through Chianti are picked from late October and the first pressing turns up green and peppery on bruschetta everywhere for about six weeks.

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Lugnt — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Olive harvest and new oil (25 okt – 10 dec (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Christmas to Epiphany

• Helg

  Christmas to Epiphany

  24 dec – 6 janJul & nyårStängningarTrångt

  Christmas Day, Santo Stefano (26 December), New Year's Day and Epiphany (6 January) are public holidays. Many museums, shops and restaurants close on the 25th and some on the 26th and 1st, while the days between bring Italian families out to nativity scenes, lights and markets. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Booked slots at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Olive harvest and new oil (25 okt – 10 dec (vanligtvis))