Florence: The Svadore 3-Day Travel Guide

This is not a $20 Travel Guide. If you’ve seen those digital 10-day guides for the price of a cocktail, you already know what’s inside: surface-level “must-sees” scraped from Google, viral TikTok cafes with three-hour lines, and logistics that haven’t been updated since 2022.

This is a Professional Intervention. As a travel planner, my clients pay for my time, my lived experience in Italy, and my ability to navigate Florence’s hidden artisan workshops, wine windows, and frescoed dining rooms so they don’t have to. People hire me to build trips like this, but not everyone has the budget for a custom itinerary. So I built the next best thing: the exact 3-day Florence blueprint I’d plan for you, with the same research, the same family-run trattorias, and the same insider knowledge I provide to my private clients, in a 63-page guide you can take with you.

This is not a checklist of 30 landmarks crammed into three days. It’s a carefully balanced itinerary that weaves a few essential icons, the Duomo, David, Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, with the places most visitors walk right past: a 19th-century apothecary selling dragon’s blood resin, wine windows that have been serving since the plague, a bookstore disguised as a butcher shop, and artisan workshops where the techniques haven’t changed since the Medici were signing the checks. Every day is designed so the iconic and the intimate sit side by side, and you never feel like you’re just ticking boxes.

At $249, this guide gives you my high-touch curation and logistics for less than the cost of a single day of my consulting time.

Who This Is For:

• The Overwhelmed Planner: You have 50 tabs open and zero idea how to connect them. I’ve done the heavy lifting; you just follow the map.
• The “Skeleton” Traveler: You have your flights and hotels, but your days are a blank slate. This guide fills the gaps with intentional, high-low experiences.
• The Averse to Tourist Traps: You want the soul of Florence, the 14th-century apothecaries, the artisan bookbinders in the Oltrarno, and the wine windows that have been serving since the plague, not the “Top 10” list everyone else is following.
• The Practical Luxury Seeker: You want the curation of a private travel planner, but aren’t ready to pay the full custom service fee.

What’s Inside the Blueprint:

• 3 Days of Cinematic Logistics: A complete 3-day itinerary organized morning to nightcap, neighborhood by neighborhood, ensuring you’re in the right place at the right time.
• 155+ “Svadore Approved” Pins: A companion Google Map with every restaurant, cafe, bar, artisan workshop, and hidden shop pinned and ready to navigate.
• The “Anti-Algorithm” Picks: Curated restaurant and shop picks with specific notes on exactly what to order and why it matters. No filler.
• Neighborhood Deep-Dives: Insider guides to the Centro Storico, Santa Croce, San Marco, Via de’ Tornabuoni, the Oltrarno, Santo Spirito, and San Niccolò.
• 10 Essential Florentine Dishes: A visual field guide to what you should be eating, from bistecca alla fiorentina to lampredotto to cecina, with photos.
• Logistics & Cultural Insurance: Essential information on getting around, money, connectivity, packing, and basic Italian phrases that go a long way.
• Fun Facts & Hidden Stories: The kind of details about Florence’s history and culture that you’ll actually remember and repeat at dinner.

Every place in this guide has been personally visited, tested, and photographed.

$249 | Instant digital download. PDF format.