Are you travelling with your family and looking for a special place to stay that provides you with creative activities, guided tours and other fun visits for you and your children?

Casa Rovai is the perfect bed and breakfast where you can find family-sized rooms that are both large and comfortable. Our staff is courteous and available for full assistance and suggestions to create a pleasant and entertaining stay for you and your family.

If you are planning to come with friends, we will be more than happy to accomodate all of you in the entire house!

Florence is full of places that can offer something for both children and adults: you can take part in guided visits or art lessons while your children participate in children's workshops.

Our bed & breakfast is in the historic center of Florence, thus all of the main museums, libraries and shops are at walking distance.

One of the newest libraries in the city, the Biblioteca delle Oblate, not only has a breathtaking view from its roof-top terrace, but is frequently busy with events and activities for crowds of all ages. Best of all, it's located within less than five minutes from Casa Rovai, and has free admission!

Chiari bookshop is right next to our b&b. Your children will really enjoy taking part in their reading workshops and arts and crafts activities related to story-telling!

Libri Liberi Bookshop: this nice bookshop very close to the San Lorenzo area has a small theatre room where they offer shows, workshops, and markets for children.

The most interesting places that now offer activities and guided tours for families are the following museums in Florence:

Florence State Museum offers at the Uffizi and other state galleries informational materials, guided visits and workshops in Italian tailored to teachers and students at all school levels, as well as to families with children and groups of adults in education programs.
Museo dei Ragazzi in Palazzo Vecchio, guided visit, workshops, simulations led by young people and actors, through Palazzo Vecchio and other palaces and museums. Discover an entertaining way to know how life was in Florence during the Renaissance!
Bottega dei Ragazzi with its 500 square meters in the Museo degli Innocenti in SS. Annunziata Square, children (age 3 to 11) are welcome to take part in more than 70 creative workshops relating to Renaissance art, the history of Florence as well as children's rights. Staff speak English, French and Spanish. While your children will enjoy the workshop with the Bottega dei Ragazzi, you will be able to admire Florence sites on your own.
Museo Horne offers guided tours and worskhops for family groups. After learning about the works collected in the museum, chidren take part in a manual or creative activity and adults can attend a very interesting lesson on Florence art history. We strongly recommend these workshops. Admission is free.
Museo Marino Marini (only on weekends) offers activities on contemporary art for mixed groups of adults and children.
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi offers special weekend workshops on the current exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi. For children aged 3 to 12 and for families. The workshop is free and held in Italian and English.

Florence is also famous for its fine tradition of museums related to the world of sciences. The Museum of the History of Science will lead you in a special guige tour through the rooms of Palazzo Castellani by characters dressed in 17th century costumes. No reservation is required for the visit. It also offer four different laboratories on occasion of 2009, the International Year of Astronomy. Children will have fun learning how to make meteorological and astronomical measurements and how to use the astrolabe! Planetario, would let children and families take part in educational activities.

All of the above activities can be reserved in advance from our staff with no extra charge. Feel free to ask!