DIRECTIONS FOR CITY AND BOOK V CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS:

On the map below you will find Santa Maria Novella Station,and Piazzale Donatello:

Santa Maria Novella Station
aaEnglish Cemetery, Piazzale Donatello, is green oval top right

This is a larger version of the map and turned in another direction to make it easier to print out.  For best results with these maps use medium, rather than small, type size.
 

* Casa Guidi, end of via Maggio, Ponte S. Trinità, via Tornabuoni Pitti Palace Boboli Gardens Ponte  Vecchio Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio   Santa Croce

Map of Central Florence             Santa Maria Novella & Station 18   Duomo, left     San Marco Santissima Annunziata         Piazzale Donatello, English Cemetery, to left

                                                                            Synagogue     Piazzale * Donatello,
                                                                                                 English Cemetery
 
 

Santa Maria Novella Station Go from the Station to the number 12 on the map, continuing on down the side of the square to Via delle Belle Donne Santa Maria Novella Church   Santa Maria Novella Square       The Via Tornabuoni continues on over the Ponte Santa Trinità , then becomes Via Maggio, at the end of which is the Casa Guidi. 29/r Via dei Velluti with Enrico Giannini's Workshop is opposite St Mark's English Church on Via Maggio.    Casa Guidi is just off this map, et at the end of Via Maggio, opposite the Pitti Palace, where you see the 'Aureo Anello' plaque, and before turning on to Via Mazzetta - where you see their balcony

Uffizi is here   Ponte Vecchio

 

Florence is a small city and everything is within walkable distance, apart from Villa Agape.

For Villa Agape, Via Torre del Gallo, 8/10, Telephone (39) 055 220044, either take a taxi from the airport or use its bus to Santa Maria Novella Station, then take a taxi. If coming by bus and not taxi from Santa Maria Novella Station, take bus number 12 to bus stop 7 in Viale Galileo, then walk up Via del Giramontino which becomes Via Torre del Gallo. Going back into Florence take bus number 13 from bus stop 8 on Viale Galileo. Buy bus tickets before entering buses from either a newstand or a bar, asking for 'biglietti per quattro corse', using each of its four numbered parts in turn, as these are cheaper. When you board the bus put your ticket in the machine to validate it. A bus ticket allows you to travel and change buses for up to an hour, once it has had the time stamped on it. We recommend you pack and bring mosquito repellant!

                                                                      Piazzale Michelangelo

Villa Agape Via Torre  del Gallo 8/10

Villa Agape, 'Suore Stabilite nella Carità', Via Torre del Gallo, 8/10, Tel. (39) 055/220044, but ask us to make the calls for you as the Sisters do not speak English.

Julia Bolton Holloway, English Cemetery, Piazzale Donatello, 38, Tel. 055/582608