Firenze Trip Overview
Italian food is recognized around the world for its delicious flavors, exquisite dishes and world class ingredients. It’s only when visiting Italy that you will grasp the real meaning of that. Every region has its own typical food, as well as any city developed its own delicacies.
This tour will lead you into Florentine traditions, to taste typical food and treats like just the locals know of. We will bring you to the historical ‘botteghe’ and into the Central Market to make you discover products such as lampredotto, schiacciata fiorentina, cheese, gelato and much more, all paired with a glass of Chianti Classico red wine.
Learn all about Florentine’s food history meeting the local charismatic vendors that often own their shops since generations. A tour designed for true food lovers, definitely off the more beaten tourist track, but at the same time, in the beautiful city center of Florence.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Firenze, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Firenze, Toscana, Italy
Italian food is recognized around the world for its delicious flavors, exquisite dishes and world class ingredients. It’s only when visiting Italy that you will grasp the real meaning of that. Every region has its own typical food, as well as any city developed its own delicacies.
This tour will lead you into Florentine traditions, to taste typical food and treats like just the locals know of. We will bring you to the historical ‘botteghe’ and into the Central Market to make you discover products such as lampredotto, schiacciata fiorentina, cheese, gelato and much more, all paired with a glass of Chianti Classico red wine.
Learn all about Florentine’s food history meeting the local charismatic vendors that often own their shops since generations. A tour designed for true food lovers, definitely off the more beaten tourist track, but at the same time, in the beautiful city center of Florence.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza del Mercato Centrale, Via dell’Ariento, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy
This activity will lead you into Florence’s traditions and the best place to discover local food is the Central Market where you will have Lampredotto, schiacciata fiorentina, cheese, cold cuts, gelato and so much more.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Basilica di San Lorenzo, Piazza di San Lorenzo 9, 50123, Florence Italy
Check the market outside the church
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio, Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti, 50122, Florence Italy
Florence’s “second” market (after the famous Mercato Centrale), the Mercato Alimentare Sant’Ambrogio offers fresh food and other goods, from around 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM every day except Sunday. Saturday mornings especially are very busy – and some vendors only come on Fridays and Saturdays. In recent years there was some experimentation of longer afternoon hours (to give people who work a chance to make it to the market) one or two days a week but I am not sure if that is still the case.
oranges-tangerines.jpgOutside on the long west side of the market you will find mostly fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as some cheeses and cold cuts, olives, bread, eggs, soaps, honey and more. On the smaller north and south ends there are clothes, shoes, and various household items (the east side is a small parking area and is used for deliveries and trash removal). Inside are meat, cheese and fish vendors, along with some general grocery, a bar and a trattotria, “De Rocco”, which is a great place for an inexpensive lunch. The Macellerie (butchers) here are usually of very good quality, among them you can find specialties like horse steaks and small birds that you may not find in other spots in Florence. The lone fish vendor has a lot of frozen products – if fish is very important on your shopping list you will find more selection at the Mercato Centrale.
bakery.jpgOverall this is our favorite food market – the experience is authentic (as it can be in a tourist town like Florence), the service is friendly, and there are (usually) more Florentines than tourists – not to mention all the great food, and some really good prices, especially on produce.
Duration: 30 minutes
