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Most of the hotels in the mid-range section have been added by the same user. That user has also added hotels to the pages of many other Italian cities. ALL these links point to hotel sites made by the same web designer/agency. Looks like large-scale advertising to me.

Hi, I'm not sure why the below was removed:

Beware of Stendhal syndrome, dizzyness caused by being overwhelmed by Florence's fantastically beautiful art! Take a break, have a gellato or a capuccino or a glass of Tuscan wine.

If you think this was just some sillyness I made up, that is not so, and a number of guide books mention it. See also Wikipedia:Stendhal syndrome. -- Infrogmation 15:03, 25 May 2004 (EDT)

Aha. Yes, I thought it was some silliness you made up. I'll reinstate it! --Evan 17:03, 25 May 2004 (EDT)

Contents 1 Cars 2 Internet 3 See 4 What is the deal on external links? 5 reserving Uffizi

Cars

"Florence is connected by good highways to the rest of Italy. Cars aren't allowed in the old town center, so plan on parking your car and leaving it for a while."

and

"Much of the town center is blocked off to automobiles; motor-bikes are common."

I was highly irritated by the amount of cars in Florence. But I must say I was in Venice the days before... But still, I found the part where cars aren't allowed ridicilously small. Guaka 13:30, 27 May 2004 (EDT)

It's not the amount of cars, it's the ridiculously narrow sidewalk for all the pedestrians. -Charles

Internet

It's difficult to find a hotel with an Internet connection in the room. The Hotel Inn offers it in their executive rooms, but it has port-blocking on 25 (email) and telnet/ssh.

The bed and breakfast listed looks like it has full internet, I wish I'd booked with them in advance. For those of you who don't need a connection at one in the morning, there are many internet points open from 10am to 10pm.

Machiavelli has internet in the lobby, in their hotel next door.. Calzaiuli has it in-room -- they cost twice as much. Starhotel has recently disabled internet access for "security" reasons.

-Charles

See

A good article but there are vitually no links. Links from the museums and main sites (Ponte Vecchio, etc) to wikipedia articles would be nice.

What is the deal on external links?

Why would a completely relevant external link be removed? Yes I am talking about Florence-Journal.com This whole Florence page is very weak and reads like it was written by a high school student. Adding a link to a site with relevant, factual information seems to be in the interest of the general public. It is called "External Links" after all - no one is forcing you to click on it, but people should be given a chance, no?

See Wikitravel:External links. The short answer is that we would like to have complete articles here. Even in incomplete articles, we are uninterested in external links as we assume the traveller can figure out how to use Google or purchase a Lonely Planet guide without any handholding from us. -- Colin 17:16, 2 Jan 2006 (EST)

The my question remains - why have them (External Links) at all? A "complete" article is a great goal, but it is never going to have everything - or the features or timeliness of something like a blog. The web is ABOUT finding new and relevant things - a web of information. The above quote sounds like it doesn't believe in the spirit of the web in the first place. It is a little strange to think that the official language of this Wiki is that it assumes users are going to turn to Google or a guide book - they have already turned to WikiTravel - why not allow the links and let the user decide...

If you read Wikitravel:External links you will see that one of our goals is to have information for printed guide, or off-line reader. While the web is about information, Wikitravel is about consolidating that information here. If you can stick florence-journal.com into a meaningful place in the article as part of the text then it doesn't need to go into the External links section. In fact we have found that section so unhelpful that we now take them out of articles as our article templates don't have them.

And if you feel the article can be improved, plunge forward and edit it so it reads like you want it to. You don't even need to log on, you can do it right now! -- Huttite 07:39, 4 Jan 2006 (EST)

reserving Uffizi

Can't find anything on the museum site about making reservations. Any chance of a link for that?

http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi/Default.asp - "Information and Booking Contact Firenze Musei, Tel: +39 055294883. Booking charge : € 3,00 per person." --Ricardo (Rmx) 11:12, 9 April 2006 (EDT)