Florence Travel Forum

It appears that we will be in Florence during the Calcio Fiorentino event (?) in June. It is listed on Rick Steves' Festival listings for Italy in 2009 as a costumed soccer game and fireworks. This link is given www.globeit.it/caf but since it is all in Italian and I don't see any options for an English translation, I was wondering if anyone can tell me more about this event. We would love to attend a soccer game while we are there, even if it is a costumed one I suppose! Can anyone tell me more about it (or give me the basics from the website I suppose?)?? Would it be worth checking out? We'll be in Florence for 2-3 days including the date of this event (the 24th).

Thanks for any help - I really appreciate everyone's input on these boards!

Read this; http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/a70c9/

Do you already have hotel rooms? It sounds like the hotels will be fully booked during the event.

Thanks for the info - and yes we have booked our hotel room luckily!

:-)

So I take it we can just purchase tickets on the day of the event, right? It sounds like that is what you did on your page I think

I don't know if you have to buy a ticket to attend Calcio Storico. That page I sent you wasn't my homepage.

Ciao!