Planning a trip to Pistoia
The tourist information office (tel. 0573-21-622; www.turismo.pistoia.it; also visit www.comune.pistoia.it) is at Via Roma 1/Piazza del Duomo 4 (inside the Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi). It’s open daily 9am (10am on Sun) to 1pm and 3 to 6pm.
Getting There
Pistoia is on the Florence-Lucca-Viareggio train line, with more than 35 trains daily from Florence (45–55 min.). The train station is on Piazza Dante Alighieri. To reach the center from there, walk right ahead on Via XX Settembre for about 5 blocks as far as Via Cavour in the city center.
By car, from east or west, take the A11: from Florence, past Prato, and from Pisa or Lucca past Montecatini. From the south, a slower but panoramic drive heads north from Empoli through olive groves and past Vinci. The most convenient free parking is signposted "Cellini," and lies just southeast of the city walls.
