Florence & Tuscany - Italy - page 1008

hence no tolls); look for blue signs saying FI-PI-LI (as in Firenze-Pisa-Livorno). Another
dual carriageway, the S2, links Florence with Siena.
TRAIN
Florence's central train station is Stazione di Santa Maria Novella (Piazza della Stazione) . The
left-luggage counter (Deposito Bagagliamano; first 5hr €5, then €0.70 per hr six-12 hours and €0.30 per
hour after that; 6am-11.50pm) is located on platform 16 and the Assistenza Disabili (Dis-
abled Assistance) office is on platform 5. International train tickets are sold in the ticketing
hall ( 6am-9pm) . For domestic tickets, skip the queue and buy your tickets from the
touch-screen automatic ticket-vending machines; machines have an English option and
accept cash and credit cards.
Florence is on the Rome-Milan line. Services include the following:
Lucca (€5.10, 1½ hours to 1¾ hours, half-hourly)
Pisa (€5.80, 45 minutes to one hour, half-hourly)
Pistoia (€3.10, 45 minutes to one hour, half-hourly)
Rome (€17.25, 1¾ hours to 4¼ hours)
Bologna (€10.50 to €25, one hour to 1¾ hours)
Milan (€29.50 to €53, 2¼ hours to 3½ hours)
Venice (€24 to €43, 2¾ hours to 4½ hours)
Getting Around
TO/FROM THE AIRPORT
Bus
A shuttle (single/return €6/8, 25 minutes) travels between Florence airport and the
Stazione di Santa Maria Novella train station every 30 minutes between 6am and 11.30pm
(5.30am to 11pm from city centre). Terravision ( www.terravision.eu ) runs daily services (one
way €4.99, 1¼ hours, hourly) between the bus stop outside Florence's Stazione di Santa
Maria Novella on Via Alamanni (under the station's digital clock) and Pisa's Galileo Ga-
lilei airport - buy tickets online, on board or from the Terravision desk inside the Deanna
Bar. At Galileo Galilei airport, the Terravision ticket desk is in the arrival hall.
Taxi