family holidays in Tuscany: accommodations

Planning family holidays in tuscany? to make things perfect, offer to your family a week in the countryside with horses and animals if your children are clever during the first week of sightseeing and museums: we offer to your family one week in Florence downtown + 1 week in a farm-holidays accommodation that is perfect for kids. And more, in Florence you can visit kids-oriented museums, as listed below!

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    FAMILY HOLIDAYS TUSCANY: COMBO 3
    2 weeks family holidays, self catering 2 bedrooms A.C. apartment in florence (walking distance from all monuments) for the first week: no car no stress,
    + 2 bedrooms self catering apartment in a farm with pool for the second week, this accommodation includes room-maid 5 days, 10 hours riding lessons for children
    Price 2000 to 2400 euro depending on period
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    FAMILY HOLIDAYS TUSCANY: COMBO 2
    2 weeks family holidays, self catering 3 bedrooms A.C. apartment in florence (walking distance from all monuments) 1 week: no car no stress,
    + 3 bedrooms self catering apartment in a farm with pool 1 week this accommodation includes room-maid 5 days, 14 hours riding lessons for children
    Price 2200 to 2800 euro depending on period

    • family holidays in Tuscany: travel tips

    Tuscany is the perfect place for your family holidays: relaxing, safe, easy.

    small is beautiful

    If you travel with kids, visit florence renting an apartment on a walking distance from monuments: city bus are often not so easy to go with kids. You can find apartments on a walking distance from all monuments.

    museums we belove

    In Florence, you would enjoy Pitti and Uffizi museums, but my be your children would like something easier!
    The city offers some museums that are quite nice:
    Enjoy your Family holidays with a visit at MUSEO dei RAGAZZI, it offers some activities, even if you are one family only (2 adults 2 children) in 3 florence museums: Palazzo Vecchio, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Museo Stibbert; activities and visits are children-oriented. Have a look on the web-site!
    You can plan alsoa family visit to Museo Stibbert on your own, and have a walk in the nice park surrouding the museum.
    The University of Florence offers to family on holidays some nice museums, some of them are very easy to visit:
    Anthropology (houses more than 25,000 objects of ethnological interest),
    Geology and Paleontology (The exposed section is mostly dedicated to Italian fossil mammals, collected during over two centuries ),
    Mineralogy(The mineralogical collections, originating from the first half of the XVI century, under the patronage of the Medici family, make Florence's Museum of Mineralogy the most important in Italy),
    Zoology (The Specola Museum, founded by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine, was opened to the public in 1775, and it's the oldest scientific museum in Europe. It holds the largest collection of anatomical waxworks in the world, manufactured between 1770 and 1850 and over 3,500,000 animals, of which only 5,000 are in view to the public),
    Botanic museum (Old erbarium, wax models, etc) and Botanical Garden (Orto dei Semplici: an old and important tree collection, is open only a few days during the week, please visit the web-site)
    If you are interested in Anthropology also Paolo Graziosi museum is interesting.
    If your children are interested in ancient instruments and devices of historical and scientific interest, such as Astrolabe, Galileo's Compass, Galileo's Telescope, spend a visit in Museo di storia della scienza too.
    For soccer fans, a museum about Italia soccer teamMuseo del calcio
    Family holidays with a visit to the Museo archeologico: offers one of the most important museums in the world on the art and civilization of the Etruscans, though it also contains many fine examples of Greek art and an important Egyptian Museum is situated on the first floor,


    Out of Florence, Leonardo da Vinci museum in Vinci.