A friend and I are planning a two-week trip to Tuscany this Autumn. We'd love to stay primarily in an atrigurismo (or a couple), but we would rather not rent a car. Can we get to our ideal farmhouse experience while relying on trains and buses? We'd be happy to rent a far for a day (or two, or three), just not the whole trip. Our great itinerary would include: flying into Florence and spending a couple days in the city, then settling in at an agriturismo and taking day trips to great Tuscan sites - Cinque Terre, Pisa, Lucca, Siena (or similar places medieval towns, art, duomo, etc). Then maybe a couple nights in another city toward the end of the trip, then fly back out of Florence.
Posted by
Tilburg, Netherlands
2829 posts
IF you don't want a car, it's better to set a base for exploration in a city and take trains from there. Even if there were some crap (like 4 times a day) bus service passing near your agriturismo, it would be challenging to organize trips from there.
Posted by
Ann Arbor, Mi
3696 posts
I think it would be much easier to simply have a car while you are in Tuscany. I would not have the car in Florence, CT. or Siena, and if that is all you want to see, then forget a car... but if you want to travel the countryside and see the little villages and towns that make up the charm of Tuscany, then you should have a car. Just stay at a farmhouse and make day trips.