The Segway Florence tour.

The segway way

Walking and hiking route Brackie - Walking and hiking route The Segway Florence tour.
otn_route_recommended

Owner: Brackie
Region: Tuscany • Florence • Italy
Linked groups: History • Segway routes • Architecture • City • Wheelchair accessable • Pram friendly • Goede routes
star - Walking and hiking route The Segway Florence tour. | 4669 views | Public

 
Need a hotel nearby?

The Segway Florence tour.

This tour is a great walking tour, but it is also the tour done by Segway Florence (see www.segwaytourflorence.com). A great and fun alternative to see the city in Florence, on top of some magnificant technology.

Sponsored links


Statistics

General difficulty level

General difficulty score: 50/100.

Easy Difficult

Difficulty level in detail

Total ascent: 78 m
Difficulty level (relative): 6/10

Max. slope (base 500m): 2.66 %
Difficulty level (relative): 7/10

Length: 3.93 km
Difficulty level (relative): 2/10

This route on your website

More info



Places of interest (along the route) (show all)

Piazza Ognissanti (distance from start: 0 km/0 miles)

Piazza Ognissanti
Firenze
The square is locate between the church Chiesa di San Salvatore a Ognissanti and the river Arno.

Piazza di Santa Trinità (distance from start: 0.63 km/0.39 miles)

Piazza di Santa Trinità
FIrenze
Piazza di Santa Trinità has a collection of important buildings around the central Column of Justice or 'Colonna della Giustizia'. You find there the Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, Palazzo Spini Feroni, Palazzo Buondelmonti, and the Basilica di Santa Trinita

Piazza della Repubblica (distance from start: 0.71 km/0.44 miles)

Piazza della Repubblica
Firenze
Place number 7 to see in Firenze: Piazza della Repubblica

Palazzo Strozzi (distance from start: 0.84 km/0.52 miles)

Palazzo Strozzi
Firenze
Palazzo Strozzi was created by the Strozzi family. They were the 'competitors' of the more famous de Medici family, who were also in the banking-bussiness.

Duomo (distance from start: 0.95 km/0.59 miles)

Duomo
Firenze
Duomo

Piazza del Duomo (distance from start: 0.95 km/0.59 miles)

Piazza del Duomo
Firenze
Place nr 4 to see in Firenze: Piazza del Duomo and the Basilica San Maria Del Fiore.

Duomo (distance from start: 1.23 km/0.77 miles)

Duomo
Firenze
A pendulum of Foucault experiment was held, which was joined by Umberto Eco (the famous writer and author of "Foucault's Pendulum") on the 700th birthday of the cathedral.

Casa di Dante Alighieri (distance from start: 1.51 km/0.94 miles)

Casa di Dante Alighieri
Firenze
The house where Dante lived before he got exiled from Florence. One of the tiles on the small square has the typical profile of Dante carved in it.

Palazzo Vecchio (distance from start: 1.51 km/0.94 miles)

Palazzo Vecchio
Firenze
Place number 3 to see in Firenze: Palazzo Vecchio, the Piazza Della Signoria and Loggia Dei Lanzi.

Portico degli Uffizi (distance from start: 1.68 km/1.05 miles)

Portico degli Uffizi
Firenze
The Portico degli Uffizi is the covered courtyard outside the Uffizi Gallery. Around the walls of the courtyard are statues of scientists, artists and statesmen important to Florentine history. Here you can find Galileo Galilei, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Michelangelo, Dante, Lorenzo de Medici, Macchiaveli, Vespucci, Donatello, San Antonino, Battista Alberti, Guicciardini, Mariangelo Accorso, Michelangelo, Cesalpino, Aretino, Mascagni, Mascagni, Mascagni, Pisano, Redi.

Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (distance from start: 1.81 km/1.12 miles)

Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Firenze
In the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, you can see a painting of Tito Lessi, showing a discussion between Galileo Galilei and his biographer Vincenzo Viviani. On that painting, you will also notice a globe of the Dutch cartographer Blaeu and a sphere of Girolamo della Volpaia.

Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze (distance from start: 2.44 km/1.52 miles)

Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze
Firenze
Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Dante and Macchiavelli are burried in the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze.

Statue of Dante (distance from start: 2.44 km/1.52 miles)

Statue of Dante
Firenze
The link between Dante and Galileo is the following: in 1588, Galileo gave two public lectures at the Accademia Fiorentina (Florentine Academy) about the shape, location, and dimensions of hell as described in Dante's Inferno. The presentation was held in the Sala del Consiglio dei Duecento in Palazzo Vecchio.

Il Gelato (distance from start: 2.55 km/1.59 miles)

Il Gelato
Firenze
Il Gelato is one of the most famous and recommended ice-cream shops of Firenze. And for a very good reason!

Piazza San Firenze (distance from start: 2.7 km/1.68 miles)

Piazza San Firenze
Firenze
The cornerhouse at Piazza San Firenze was one the place where Leonardo Da Vinci had his workshop.

Museo del Bargello (distance from start: 2.7 km/1.68 miles)

Museo del Bargello
Firenze
The Bargello is now a museum, but before this was the city prison. It was here that Leonardo Da Vinci made the drawing of the hanged man, which was hanging out of one of the windows. It was Bernardo di Bandino. He was one of the executors of the Pazzi Conspiracy on 26 April 1478, when they attempted a coup d'état against the rule of the Medici. It started by the killing of Giuliano de' Medici in teh Duomo of Florence during the mass. His brother Lorenzo maneged to escape, having a neckwound.

Piazza Goldoni (distance from start: 3.37 km/2.1 miles)

Piazza Goldoni
Firenze
Piazza Goldoni is named after the statue for Carlo Goldoni, a celebrated Venetian playwright.

Segway Firenze (distance from start: 3.92 km/2.43 miles)

Segway Firenze
Firenze
Segway Florence organizes tours in Florence with Segway-vehicles. You can do a free tour with the Segway or an organized tour with a guide who tells you everything about Firenze.

Chiesa di San Salvatore a Ognissanti (distance from start: 3.92 km/2.43 miles)

Chiesa di San Salvatore a Ognissanti
Firenze
The church Chiesa di San Salvatore a Ognissanti contains the tombs of Americano Vespucci and Sandro Botticelli. Giotto's celebrated Madonna and Child with angels, now in the Uffizi, was painted for the high altar, about 1310.

Places of interest (near the route)

More attractions nearby

Hotels nearby

  1. Hotel Rosso23
  2. Golden Tower Hotel
  3. Hotel Embassy
  4. Grand Hotel Cavour
  5. Hotel City
More hotels nearby

Practical locations nearby

  1. Il Gelato
More practical locations nearby

Comments

Nothing found

Sponsored links