Francesco from Florence

About me I was born and raised in this town and, after spending an almost-two-year-long spell working in Bratislava, I settled back in my hometown, working first as a business consultant and then as an administrative in a large company. I am book-addicted, so I spend a lot of my free time reading. I also love to watch and play (but mainly watch) football, supporting the local t...

Aug 9, 2025

La Cité Florence

Have a drink while surrounded by books

""La Cité" Florence is a café I'm really enthusiastic about: drinking with friends, reading books, listening to music, I love spending time here..."

If you like to hang out and drink with friends (like I do), if you are a book-worm (like I am) and you love to listen to live music (like I also do), you can understand how enthusiastic I am about La Cité. This is the spot for my favourite way to spend my time, meeting each other. It is a cozy café with raw furniture, a nice atmosphere and shelves full of books all around. Those books are not there just as an ornament, in fact, it is possible to purchase them, since La Cité is also a bookshop.

They have a good choice of teas (according to Italian standards), and the cocktails they serve are quite good: I recommend Aperol Spritz if you wanna go soft and Negroni (original cocktail from Florence) if you want to go hard.

Despite the limited amount of space inside, there are often small concerts (well, not in Summer, it would be too hot), but when it happens on the weekends it becomes almost impossible to get inside, since it is so crowded that most of the people have to hang out outside the front door. When it is like that, you might try to get inside NoF, which is almost in front of it, but it is even smaller there, so I can't guarantee you can squeeze there.

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