Parco della Cascine

Parco delle Cascine along the Arno River in Florence. (Photo by Nikko Max)
Parco delle Cascine along the Arno River in Florence.

A beautiful public park stretched along the Arno just outside the cetner of Florence

A path in the Parco delle Cascine, Florence. (Photo by Luca Daviddi)
A path in the Parco delle Cascine.

Florence’s main city park stretches along the Arno at the west end of the historic center. Originally a wild delta of land where the Arno and Mugnone rivers met, the area later became a Medici hunting reserve and eventually a pasture for the grand duke's milk cows.

Today, the Cascine is home to tennis courts, pools, a horse racetrack, and some odd late-18th- and early-19th-century features like an incongruous pyramid and funky neoclassical fountains. There's a flea market here every Tuesday morning.

Though perfectly safe in the daylight—and has some nightclubs at its eastern end—this park becomes a bit of a den of thieves and hangout for heroin addicts after dark, as do many sections of the Arno's banks, so steer clear.

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ADDRESS

Viale Abramo Lincoln/Piazza VittorioVeneto (along the north bank of theArno River, just west of the city center)
tel. +39-055-276-8806
parcodellacascine.fi.it

OPEN

Park: 24/7
Visitor Center: Mon–Fri: 10am-7pm; Firday

ADMISSION

Free admission

TRANSPORT

Bus: C2, C3
Hop-on/hop-off: Via Vittorio Vento (C)

How long does Parco della Cascine take?

Planning your day: It is a park. Spend as long as you like here, relaxing and decompressing from all that Reanissance art, Medici melodrama, and Dante medeivalism.

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Details
ADDRESS

Viale Abramo Lincoln/Piazza VittorioVeneto (along the north bank of theArno River, just west of the city center)
tel. +39-055-276-8806
parcodellacascine.fi.it

OPEN

Park: 24/7
Visitor Center: Mon–Fri: 10am-7pm; Firday

ADMISSION

Free admission

TRANSPORT

Bus: C2, C3
Hop-on/hop-off: Via Vittorio Vento (C)



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