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15:30- 22:00 Registration and Welcome mixer at the Natural History Museum, Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden of Florence Giardino dei Semplici, founded on 1st December 1545 by Cosimo I de Medici, is the third most ancient botanical garden in the world after those of Pisa and Padua. Here, every day since almost 500 years, well-documented collections of living plants have been cared for, grown up and spread all around here for conservation, research and educational aims.
15:30-19:00 Registration
19:00-22:00 Welcome mixer
How to get to the Botanical Garden
On foot: about 5 minutes from Piazza San Marco | about 20 minutes from Santa Maria Novella Station
By bicycle: about 2 minutes from Piazza della Libertà | about 8 minutes from Santa Maria Novella Station. Bike racks are available at the beginning and end of Via Micheli
By bus: checking the Autolinee Toscane website is recommended; the road network around the Botanical garden is following the progress of the tramway works
By car: the Garden is located within the Limited Traffic Zone (ZTL), so the car must either have a ZTL permit or be parked outside the ZTL. The nearest paid parking lots outside the ZTL are in Piazza Savonarola, Piazza Libertà and along Viale Spartaco Lavagnini and Viale Giacomo Matteotti. To access the ZTL, visitors with disabilities who are not residents of the City of Florence can register using following the procedure of Servizi alla Strada SpA. Cars with a ZTL permit and a disabled parking sticker can park for free in all spaces (marked spaces for people with disabilities, white lines for residents, and paying blue lines)
From Peretola airport, tramway T2 to the Unità stop. From there it is a 20-minute walk, or one can take bus n. 17 Verga Tozzi direction to Venezia stop.