🟡Florence is one of the Italian art cities where the Easter long weekend offers various events with its museums open for the holidays.

🕊️ Sunday 20 April 2025 🕊️ Piazza del Duomo 11:00 am the explosion of the Cart

Every year Florence celebrates Easter Sunday in a truly special way. The Scampia del Carro is a fixed event with more than 350 years of tradition : it is a 2-3 story high tower (also called “Il Brindellone”) pulled by two oxen adorned with garlands.
From the altar of the Cathedral the Archbishop lights a rocket in the shape of a dove, “la Colombina”, which flies out of the church along a wire that hits the Cart in the square, giving life to a spectacular fireworks display that is met with applause from the entire audience: this is what we mean by the explosion of the Cart!

🕊️Museums open for Easter in Florence:

Uffizi Gallery

Accademia Gallery

Bargello Museum

Medici Chapels

Civic Museums

🕊️The Easter markets.

There will be markets and fairs with typical products and much more. Update of the schedules follows.

🕊️Outdoor Picnic

Parco Mediceo di Pratolino accessible for the whole Easter weekend and free. 6 Km from Fiesole.

Walk in the Monte Ceceri Park (Fiesole) with equipped area.

Monte Morello with a beautiful view of Florence

Monte Senario , combining a stop at the nearby sanctuary,

Horticultural Garden at the foot of Via Bolognese in Florence with monuments

Garden of Parnassus via Tieste above the Horticulture garden

Even though everyone calls it “the Dragon Garden” (precisely because of the strange snake that could look more like a dragon)

Villa il Ventaglio free entrance from 8:15 to 17:30 (Easter Sunday open. Easter Monday opening hours to be updated.

🕊️To visit :

Bardini Garden with spectacular blooms of wisteria

Rose Garden

USEFUL INFO FOR EASTER🕊️

Bus line 7 and T2 timetables will be regular