Firenze Card: 33 Museums special pass in Florence
March 25, 2011
What a great new! From today – finally!!!! – all tourists and art lovers can visit Uffizi, Academy, Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, Bargello Museum, Medici Chapels, Palazzo Vecchio, and many other museums (for a total of 33!) with just one special Card.
The price is euros 50,00 and the card is valid for 72 hours. You can also use all the public transports in Florence free of charge if you show this “Firenze Card”. With this card you won’t have to stay in the lines for hours, just go to the museum and start your visit!
Where can you buy the Firenze Card? This special museums pass is not bookable in advance. So, be prepared to stay in the lines for a few minutes. The places where you can buy it are: Palazzo Vecchio (in Piazza della Signoria), and the Chiesa di Orsanmichele in Via Calzaioli (between the Duomo sq and the Singoria sq.) Very soon it will be available in many other places.
Let’s come to Florence and enjoy the Renaissance! <strong>Mr My Resort Guesthouseis waiting for you!
Get to Florence by flight
March 4, 2011
If you’re getting to Florence by flight, here are some useful informations to get from the airports to Mr My Resort Inn.
1. From Pisa airport to Florence: “Pisa Airport – G. Galilei” http://www.pisa-airport.com/ (english version availabile)is located between 1h to 2hours and half from Florence city center, depending on the transport you choose. By bus: http://www.terravision.eu/florence_pisa.html , by train http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html (put “Pisa ae” for Pisa airport and Firenze for Florence train station). Actually there is a special 1 hour high speed service, available until 8PM (after 8pm there are some trains to get in Firenze stazione in 1h and 40 min. ).Tickdet price is about 5,00-6,00 euros per person. There is also a taxi service leaving from the Pisa airport at a fixed price of euros 150,00 (it takes about 40 minutes to get into the historic center of Florence).
Rent a car in Pisa and get in Florence center: this is not the best. If you want to spend your time in Florence, then your car will stay in a garage or a parking because you can take the car just to drive outside the city center and amd not into the historic center like some residents can do with a special permission. We suggest you to save money and rent a car when you leave Florence to get in the countryside like Chianti area, Siena, etc. Or: rent your car in the morning and go outside Florence for a daily trip and then drop it off to the car rental in the evening and skip the garage tariffs!
2. From Florence airport to Florence center: Florence airport “Firenze Peretola Airport – A. Vespucci” http://www.aeroporto.firenze.it/IT/index.php (english version available) is very close to the city center. Taxi is the best way. The tariff is between 18,00 – 22,00 euros including your bags, and you will arrive at the B&B in no more than 15-20 minutes depending on the traffic around the city center.
Choose your room and come to our romantic place to stay in Florence!
4/9-17 Week of culture in Florence 2011: museums free
February 22, 2011
Culture Week 2011 falls in April this year, very close to the Easter Vacations!
What is the week of culture? It is a very important event involving all the State Museums with specials and free tickets access. Here in Florence you can visit: the Uffizi Gallery, Academy Museum, Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens, Bargello Museum, Medici Chapels, and many other attractions. All of them free of charge!
Is is possible to get tickets in advance? Yes of course! You can use the online booking service available on the Official state museums web site or if you’re a guest at Mr My Resort Inn we’ll do that for you (no credit card needed). If you intend to pre-book your tickets to avoid the long lines, then you will pay just for the pre-booking service, which is a great advantage.
What are you waiting for? Florence is so sweet in April and you will have a very good time here. Walking in the city of the Renaissance will be the most exciting experience ever, admiring the David, watch the city lights from the Ponte Vecchio… In addiction, you can’t miss the opportunity to spend a vacation at Mr My Resort Inn during the free entrance week to the main museums in the city center!
You can also think about the possibility to take a daily trip to Pisa or Siena and visit their museums, since this event is valid for all the State Museums in Italy.
Book your room at Mr My Resort, and we’ll do your Culture Week 2011 special!
Week of Culture, April 9-17, 2011. Valid for all State Museums in Florence.
Christmas Holidays and the New Years Eve in Florence: what to do part 2.
December 22, 2010
In my recent post about what to do during your Christmas vacations in Florence I gave you some suggestions about concerts and restaurants open for the traditional Christmas lunch.
Here I give you some tips about the New Year’s Eve in Florence. Locals are used to spend the night of 12/31 in two ways: stay at home (or go to the restaurant) with friends and families for the traditional Cenone di Capodanno, or eat before midnight (pizza or a restaurant witha menu “à la carte”), then spend the night in the Lungarni on the river or in the piazza, champagne in a hand watching the midnight fireworks and then go for a drink (!) or a cappuccino&croissant in a Café.
This year, Florence offers several opportunities to spend and unforgettable New Years End in Tuscany:
Concerts in the squares, free access: “Elio e le Storie Tese” in Piazza Stazione (pop music), gospel choruses in Piazza SS. Annunziata, the traditional “Classic Concert” by maestro Lanzetta in the Signoria Square, and the marching band “Funk Off“ in Piazza della Repubblica.
Restaurants open on 12/31 (book your table in advance!)
- Osteria Pepò and Osteria Tozzo di Pane: both unexpensive, both with a menu “à la carte”, friendly staff and good tuscan food. Very close to the Mr My Resort B&B, on your way to the Duomo square and Uffizi Gallery. Both are open on 1/1, too.
- Alle Murate: one of the most elegant places to eat in the city center. Expensive, Excellent, Exclusive. Duomo square.
A couple of good Cafés open on 12/31 night: Gilli in Piazza della Repubblica, between the Duomo and Signoria square, and the Grand Caffé San Marco, in S. Marco square, very close to Mr My Resort BB and at the corner with the Academy Gallery and the David.
Did you already book one of our romantic rooms to spend your Christmas time in our beautiful city?
Christmas holidays and New Years Eve in Florence: what to do part 1.
December 20, 2010
Most of our guests here at Mr My Resort bed and breakfast ask if Florence is open during Christmas and the New Year’s Eve vacations. Here is the answer: YES!
The city offers several exhibitions: from the one about Caravaggio (Uffizi), to the other about Bronzino, one of the most beautiful exhibition I have seen here in Florence since 10 years. There is also an important exhibition about an italian “naif” painter Ligabue in Palazzo Pitti, and you can’t miss the Damien Hirst diamonds skull in Palazzo Vecchio.
Traditional Christmas concerts and operas are scheduled in the most important theatres in the city center, such as Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Verdi and the Teatro della Pergola.
This year Xmas falls on Saturday, and shops are open all day on Friday. On Dec. 25th and 26th you can decide to have your Christmas lunch/dinner at Pepo’s (à la carte menu), take a walk to the Piazza della Repubblica for your cappuccino at Gilli Caffé (one of our favourite ), which is a very good place also for the aperitifs, too, and it is an elegand old-tylish Italian Café where it will be nice to seat and watch people, talk about your Christmas presents, write postcards to your family…
Higly recommended: a walking tour of the city center. The Old Bridge is a must, and it won’t be so crowded since locals are used to spend this day at home with families and at 5pm the Panettone cake is still on the lunch table… You can walk up to the Piazzale Michelangelo and enjoy the great panorama from the San Miniato Cathedral, while the Christmas lights begin to shine…
Remember that on Dec. 27th all the shops, cathedrals, bars, boutiques and small museums (Duomo included) are regulary open, and the famous food San Lorenzo Market (together with the leather stands in the streets) will be open and ready to offer all the best Tuscan food you can find in the city center.
Tuesday Dec. 28th we inform you that ALL MUSEUMS IN FLORENCE WILL BE OPEN FOR FREE from 8.15AM to 11PM
Very soon: how to spend the New Year’s Eve in Florence.
*** The picture was took by me at the San Lorenzo Church, right yesterday evening 
9/25-26 Free entrance to the state museums in Florence: European Heritage Days
September 22, 2010
Good news! Will you be in Florence at Mr My Resort bed and breakfast on the week-end September 25th-26th? If yes, then you can visit all the florentine state museums listed below for free (in case you want to pre-book your tickets to avoid queueing, it’s just euros 4,00 per person payable at the entrance; pls email us your preferred day and time you wish to go).
State Museums in Florence free entrance:
Uffizi Gallery (Tue-Sun 8.15am-6.50pm), Academy Gallery (Tue-Sun 8.15am-6.50pm), Bargello Museum (open util 5pm), Palazzo Pitti (Tue-Sun 8.15am-6.50pm) with all its galleries and together with Boboli Gardens its galleries and the Giardino Bardini (Tue-Sun 8.15am- 5.00pm/7.30pm), Medici Chapels, San Marco Museum.
As you know, Mr My Resort hotel is located in Florence downtown, just a few minutes walk to all the most important museums and cathedrals. Check our availabilities or send an enquiry from our official web site …
Iris Garden in Florence – opening season
May 8, 2010
A few steps from the Piazzale Michelangelo which offers one of the best Florence view there is the Giardino dell’Iris – Iris Garden which will be open until May 20th. the place is simply gorgeous and worths a visit in sunny days. In addiction, you can consider to visit also the San Miniato church, a magnificent building decorated with mosaics in gold and marbles, with a secret XI cent. crypt.
May 10-15 there is the 54° International Iris Competition, so you can see hybridisers and horticulturists from different nations work in the Garden and expose their flowers. Dont’ miss it! From the historic center Mr My Resort area you can take the bus n. 12 or 13 and go directly to the Piazzale; the Iris Garden is located on the east part of the terrace overlooking the city. If you are good walkers then you can go there by feet in about 1hr30″, crossing the Old Bridge Ponte Vecchio.
Check where B&B MR My Resort is located here: http://www.mrflorence.it/eng/Central-B&B-Florence.html
IRIS GARDEN
open daily: 10am-12.30pm
and 3.00pm-7.00pm until May 20
Free entrance
April 16-25 free admissions in State Museums, Florence
April 14, 2010
Florence offers lots of opportunities to visit its gorgeus museums, and this april 2010, from 16th to 25th you can enter in all the State Museums for free! An entire week called Settimana della Cultura 2010 where most of museums in Italy will be open free of charge.
Yes, you wont’ have to pay the ticket, and in case you have already made your booking in advance, you will pay just the 4,00 euros for the reservation service.
A few minutes walk from your charming bed and breakfast in Florence downtown, you will enjoy free entrance at: Uffizi museum, Academy Gallery, Medici Chapels, Bargello Museum, Davanzati Ancient Florentine House Museum, Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens.
You can’t miss this special event, it’s just once a year so hurry, we have just 5 rooms and the Settimana della Cultura 2010 is coming soon! In addiction, april 16th falls on a Friday, so plan your week-end getaway now!
Website: Mr My Resort
Our charming B&B in Florence close to the Academy Gallery and its David
April 7, 2010
Before to start a trip to Florence, so many guests ask us: where is located your bed and breakfast in Florence?
I would say in the most lively area of the city center, where locals live, where restaurants are not for tourists only, and where the food Market of San Lorenzo give its special touch of colours.
But, to give you the exact location of our romantic B&B in the city center of Florence, I have to say that we’re just 3 minutes walk from the world-famous Academy Gallery and its Michelangelo’s David.
This museum is easy to visit, and is full of extraodinary masterpieces such as Michelangelo‘s Prisoners (in the Prisoner’s Corridor), St Matthew, and the Pietà di Palestrina. There is the unmissable Annunciation by Lorenzo Monaco, and the Madonna del Lago by Botticelli, the Deposition by Bronzino, works by Filippo Lippi, and many others… On the upper floor there is a large selection of paintings 14th-16th century.
The David was originally placed in Piazza della Signoria, right on the steps of Palazzo Vecchio, representing the strenght and the dignity of the Florentine Republic; it was there for about 400 years, and then it was removed for proctection pourposes, and the Academy Gallery became his place.
If you intend to visit the David, then reserve the tickets in advance; you will save precious time to touring other gems in Florence historic downtown! At Mr My Resort Inn we offer museums booking service without additional costs, so email us and book your tickets to see the Academy Gallery!
1. Tea rooms in Florence: “Derb”, a Moroccan oasis.
March 10, 2010
Located close to the Medici Chaples and the San Lorenzo church, right two steps from MR My Resort Inn, the “Derb” Moroccan Tea Room creates a tranquil setting for enjoy tea, but this places is not only a typical tea room.
As a Tea Room, here you can find the best Moroccan selections of typical tea from the large menu, together with typical biscuits and home-made cakes, some in Moroccan style, others more italian. Here it is possible to have a light lunch with a vegetarian cous-cous or a good panino, or come in the afternoon to read a newspaper and sip a home-made fruit-juice, or a tea with fresh ingredients and special aromas (try the Risveglio a Marrakech, or Notti d’Arabia, or just the simple tea with fresh mint). The late afternoon this is a good place for aperitivs, too.
But as I told you, this is not only a Tea Room. The proprietor, Sofia, is a young sweet girl who creates jewels in Moroccan style in her laboratory located in a part of the “Derb”; you can see her working at rings or hear-rings while you’re sit at the table with your drink.
In addiction, she imports directly from Morocco some typical hand-crafts products: hand-made covers in colored silk, silk pillows, moroccan slippers in leather, and the famous “tagine”, that they use to prepare the cous cous but that one’s can use and a standard plateau to serve food on table. Colored glasses decorated with silver, warm colored dishes hand-decorated.
Do you want to discover the true secret of the Moroccan girls beauty? Here is it: the Argan Oil. This prodigious, completely natural element, is considered as a must by all the arabian ladies, and it is actually used in most of recent beauty treatments for hair, body and face. You can find it at “Derb”, pure 100% and bio, at a very reasonable price! Don’t miss it! You can use the Argan Oil after our Body Space experience at MR My Resort…
DERB, Via Faenza 21/R
(open daily 11.30am – 7.30pm. Closed on Sunday)