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Florence (Tuscany):
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Airports:
There are two airports, though only one, Galileo Galilei Airport
near Pisa, handles international flights; a fast train, coordinated
with flights, connects with Florence Santa Maria Novella train
station (one hour). Amerigo Vespucci Airport, outside
Florence takes smaller domestic and charter flights
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Golf courses:
- Golf dell’Ugolino - Via Chiantigiana, 3 - Grassina
9 km from Florence -
Season: year-round -
18 holes, Par 72, SS 71, 5676 mt.
Facilities: driving range, pro-shop, golf car,
restaurant, pool, tennis, billiard room.
- Castelfalfi Country Club - Località Castelfalfi
50050 Montaione
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Foreign Embassies
- Austria- Lungarno Vespucci, 58 tel.055 2654222
- Belgium - Via dei Servi, 28 tel 055 282094
- Brazil - Piazza Pitti, 5 tel. 055 222336 -
- China - Via dei Della Robbia, 89 tel. 055 5058188
- Denmark - Via dei Servi, 13 tel. 055211007
- Russian Federation - Corso Italia, 8 tel.
055 2608940
- Finland - Via degli Strozzi, 6 tel. 055 293 228
- France - Piazza Ognissanti, 2 tel. 055 2302556
- Germany - Lungarno A. Vespucci, 30 tel. 055 294 722
- Great Britain - Lungarno Corsini, 2 tel. 055 284133
- Greece - Via Cavour, 38 tel. 0552381482
- Norway - Via G. Capponi, 26 tel. 055 2479321
- Nederland - Via Cavour, 81 tel. 055 475249
- South Africa - Piazza de’ Salterelli, 1 tel.
055 281863
- Spain - Via Lamberti, 2 tel. 055 2608606
- USA - Lungarno A. Vespucci, 38 tel. 055 2398276
- Sweden - Via Bonifacio Lupi, 14 tel. 055 499536
- Switzerland - Hotel Park Palace, Piazzale Galileo tel.
055 222434
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Discos and piano bars
- Andromeda - P.zza dei Cerchi 7
- Auditorium FLOG - Via M. Mercati 24
- Central Park - Via Fosso Macinante 2/4/6
- Dolce Zucchero - Via Pandolfini 36/38
- Elysee - Via delle Oche 19
- Full Up - Via della Vigna Vecchia 21
- Il Rifugio Via Corelli 33 int.
- Jackie-O' - Via dell'Erta Canina 24
- Jaragua - Via dell'Erta Canina 12
- Lady White - Via Mannelli 181/185/187
- Lo Scorpione - Via Castello d'Altofronte 14
- Maracanà - Via Faenza 4
- Meccanò - Via degli Olmi 1
- Penny Club - Via dei Bardi 37
- Pongo - Via Verdi 57
- Red Garter - Via dei Benci 22
- Rockafé - Borgo degli Albizi 66
- Space Electronic - Via Palazzuolo 37
- Tabasco Disco - Via Pandolfini 26
- Tenax - Via Pratese 46
- Yab Yum- Via Sassetti 5
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International Libraries
- Athenaeum Studio Bibliografico - Via S.Gallo, 79
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BM Bookshop - Books in
English - Borgo Ognissanti, 4/r
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Edison - Piazza Repubblica,
5
Books in English, French, German, Spanish.
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Feltrinelli International -
Via Cavour 12/r
Books in English, French, German,
Spanish.
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Seeber International Library
- Via Tornabuoni, 70
Books in English, French,
German, Spanish, Chinese, Arab
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Libreria City Lights -
Literature books in English
Via S. Niccolò 23/r tel.
0552347882
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Paperback
Exchange, via Fiesolana 31
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Pharmacies in
Florence open 24 hours:
- At S.M. Novella Train station
- All'insegna del Moro - Piazza S.
Giovanni 20
- Molteni - Via
Calzaiuoli 7
- Radio Taxi:
- Tel. 055 4390 – 055 4499
- Tel. 055 4798 - 055 4242
- Supermarkets :
General grocery stores are called alimentari and offer from
vegetables to pasta. There are Coop, Standa, Superal, and Esselunga
supermarkets in Florence area. There
you can also find household goods and clothes. You also can get quality
fruit and vegetables in the open air markets at Piazza St. Ambrogio and
at the Central Market of St. Lorenzo (Mercato Centrale) housed inside a
large two-story 19 th C building.
- Coop
Supermarkets:
- Supermarket -Via C. del Prete 106
- Supermarket - Via Cimabue 47
- Supermarket - Via Salvi Cristiani 13, Coverciano
- Supermarket - Viale Talenti 94, Isolotto
- Esselunga
Supermarkets:
- Supermarket Argingrosso -
Via dell'Argingrosso
- Superstore Canova - Via Canova
- Supermarket Galliano - Via Galliano
- Supermarket Giannotti - ViaGiannotti
- Supermarket Masaccio - Via Masaccio
- Supermarket Milanesi - Via Milanesi
- Supermarket Pisana - Via Pisana
- Standa
Supermarkets:
- Standa Viale dei Mille 140
- Standa P.zza Dalmazia 12/14
- Swimming pools
- "Costoli" - V. le Paoli
- "A. Franchi" - V.le Maratona
- "Nannini" - Bellariva L.no A. Moro 6
- "Don Minzoni" - Via Locchi
- "Isolotto" - Via Bandinelli 61
- "Paganelli" - V.le Guidoni
- "S. Marcellino" - Via Chiantigiana
- "Flog il Poggetto" - Via M. Mercati 26
- "Le Pavoniere" - Via della Catena 4
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The Università degli Studi di
Firenze - Piazza San Marco 4, ranks number seven
out of the 77 Italian Universities for number of students:
63,000. It is the largest in Tuscany and
consists of 12 Faculties: Agriculture, Architecture,
Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Liberal Arts,
Medicine and Surgery, Mathematics, Physics and Natural
Sciences, Pharmacy, Political Science, Psychology. (website www.unifi.it)
- Theaters and Opera houses:
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