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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t love big cities, but do love art / art history. It’s been years, but when I went to Italy in my 20s (with my parents / without kids) we spent 4-5 nights in Florence and there was plenty to do. We also spent one or two nights in Cinque Terre and hiked the connecting trails and two nights in Sienna. On our way to Sienna we left early and visited a bunch of the hill towns, which I really loved. (I live in CA now and, while the landscape is similar as a prior poster noted, the history is not.) I preferred Sienna and the Hill towns to Florence but there was so much art to see in Florence. (Get timed tickets to the Ufizi and the Academy.) Apart from those, other places I remember years later are strolling along Ponte Vecchio, the Duomo, the Laurentian Steps / Laurentian Library, walking / “hiking” (it’s hilly) up past Galileo’s house to San Minato al Monte (we liked this enough we went up again the next night), visiting the Bargello (my art history professor told me this was the best of the often missed art in Florence and I really loved it), and the Boboli gardens. We also spent an afternoon strolling / exploring and went to a neighborhood we hadn’t visited in prior days that had a massive farmer’s market, but I don’t remember where that was. In terms of planning, I planned it all - originally planned to travel alone and then my parents joined me which was great. In retrospect I think it would have been a long trip alone and I would have missed things. (My parents suggested Sienna and my dad was more comfortable driving in Italy than I would have been.). I was glad we didn’t have a car for Florence and Cinque Terre. [/quote]

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