Hidden Florence vs Florence Travel & Audio Guide

This is your pocket guide to the history and people of Renaissance Florence. Hear the lesser known stories about the major historic attractions of the city, as well as finding adventures off the beaten path. - Audio-guided tours from historic characters Take a stroll alongside your guides from the past - wool workers, policemen, bankers and matriarchs are waiting to take you by the hand through this historic city. - Discover more of Florence You can use this app as you move through the streets of Florence and trigger stories with GPS - or - sit back and let your fingers do the walking by tapping on story points. - Insights from history experts Based on authentic historical documents, this app will take you places that other guides don’t reach. Stories have been created by researchers and leading experts on Florentine history, Including extra insights at every point. - Features - Audio-guide tours to hidden parts of the city; - Switch between interactive historical maps and modern day; - Visit points in any order or follow recommended routes; - Get deeper information from the scholars behind the app at every point; - Two stories available in Italian ----- Hidden Florence is the result of a collaborative research project led by Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter), with Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge) and Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto), and project team members Daniel Jamison and David Rosenthal. The project has been funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (award: AH/R008086/1), the University of Exeter and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada (grant: 435-2015-097). This app contains content produced for Hidden Florence, a project originally created in 2013-4 by Fabrizio Nevola with David Rosenthal and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (award: AH/K005138/1), the University of Exeter and the HEFCE Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) for Open Innovation.

Tickets and tours: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery and more. Hear the story of every sight with the audio guide and walk an itinerary planned on the time you have. In English and 11 other languages. TICKETS AND TOURS IN FLORENCE Entry tickets and guided tours: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Palazzo Pitti, Boboli Gardens and Medici Chapels, booked through GetYourGuide from the page of each place. Food tours and cooking classes, wine tours. Day trips from Florence: Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano and Cinque Terre. FLORENCE AUDIO GUIDE Tap "Listen" on any place of the guide and the app reads its story aloud, sentence by sentence, while you stand in front of it: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Pause, go back a sentence, change the speed. The audio guide speaks the language you read the guide in. FLORENCE ITINERARY BY THE TIME YOU HAVE Tell the app how much time you have and where you start, and it plans a walking itinerary through the sights of Florence: the stops in order, the walk between them in minutes, the route on the map. Follow it step by step, stop by stop. Or save the places you like and turn them into your own walk. MAP OF FLORENCE All the sights of Florence on one map, and where to eat, nightlife and shopping on layers of their own: the photos of the most famous ones, the others by name as you zoom in. Tap a place for its page, its tickets and the walking directions from where you are. THINGS TO DO IN FLORENCE 122 places to see, each with its story, photos and the tours that visit it: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Palazzo Pitti, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Basilica of Santa Croce, Church of Santa Maria Novella and Museum, Bargello National Museum and many more. TRAVEL TIPS FOR FLORENCE 200 answers to the questions travellers ask before and during a trip to Florence, for example: • Tickets for Florence attractions • How to visit Florence with limited time • Best time to visit Florence's major attractions MORE IN THE GUIDE • Day trips near Florence • Local guides you can contact for a private tour • Weather for the next 7 days • Hotels in Florence on Booking.com, for tonight, the weekend or your dates • My guide: save places with a tap and find them on the map FREE, OR PREMIUM The Florence guide, the audio guide, the map, the travel tips and a one-hour itinerary are free, with ads. Premium, a single purchase, removes the ads and adds longer itineraries, your own lists of places ("Day 1", "Day 2"), unlimited walking directions and the offline guide: the whole guide of Florence downloaded to your phone, to read without a connection.