Must-See
Mercato Centrale
Florence's 19th-century covered market of meat, cheese, fruit and produce, with a busy food hall upstairs.
- Open
- The market on weekday and Saturday mornings; the food hall every day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Piazza del Mercato Centrale, 50123 FlorenceDirections
- Getting There
- A 5-minute walk from Santa Maria Novella station.
Why Go
Built of iron and glass in 1874, the market's ground floor is where Florentines shop for food in the mornings. Upstairs, a food hall serves pasta, pizza and lampredotto until late.
Street stalls around it sell leather goods, and the Medici church of San Lorenzo, designed by Brunelleschi, is next door.
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