Seeking tips for a day trip or overnight from Florence to visit the Ravenna mosaics with two friends. We don't have a car. Know a guide who can pick us up in Bologna and take us to the top sites for mosaics? Other ideas for simplifying the bus/train logistics from Florence?
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San Diego, California, USA
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Hello BarbaraGail, and welcome to the forum,
When is your trip? This is normally a pretty straightforward train Florence to Bologna and then Bologna to Ravenna and the biggest issue is that fast trains come in on lower level 3 and you need to make your way up to the surface for local trains and vice versa. This trip would take about 2.5 hours using the fast train to Bologna and then the regular train to Ravenna.
But there is scheduled work at Florence train station off and on this year so if you check schedules now you'll get some really weird results. As long as your dates don't run into track closures this is pretty straightforward. The time to drive or take the train from Bologna to Ravenna is about the same unless there's traffic.
Have a great trip,
=Tod
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
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day trip or overnight from Florence to visit the Ravenna
JMO but 2.5 hours each way is too far as a day trip. Try to stay overnight in Ravenna- it's a lovely town
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Washington DC
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It took me two full days of aggressive sightseeing to cover all the mosaics and art museums in Ravenna. I had a bit of time to walk around the attractive historic center but not enough to go to the Classis historical museum out in Classe, even though I was very near it when visiting Sant'Appolinare in Classe.
People not as fanatical as I am about mosaics can and do make shorter trips to Ravenna, but if you can spare the time to spend at least one night there, i don't think you'll regret it.