Florence · Sports & events
SPORT & SEASON
Serie A at a 1930s stadium, a brutal medieval football match in June and Chianti roads for cyclists.
Fiorentina at the Franchi
Serie A runs August to May at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, a 1930s ground under long-running renovation. Tickets need a name-matched ID at the gate.
Calcio Storico Fiorentino
Sixteenth-century football fought on sand in Piazza Santa Croce each June: four neighbourhood teams, very few rules. Tickets are scarce, and the semi-finals easier.
Firenze Marathon
Run in late November from the Duomo out through the Cascine park and back — flat, cool and considerably cheaper to enter than the spring majors.
Cycling into Chianti
Road and gravel routes leave the city southwards into the hills, and L'Eroica, the vintage-bike ride on white gravel roads, sets off from Gaiole in October.