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

Casa Rovai is the perfect bed and breakfast where to find both large, comfortable family rooms and full assistance and suggestions from our staff to enjoy a comfortable stay for you and your children.

If you are planning to come with some 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 to attract at the same time children and adults: you will be able to take part in guided visits or lessons of art while your children are participating in a workshop.

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

One of the newest libraries in the city is the Biblioteca delle Oblate, with a breathtaking view from its terrace reachable, in less than five minutes from Casa Rovai. This library is equipped with a special children's area. Admission is free.

Chiari bookshop is right next to our b&b. Your children will really enjoy taking part in their reading workshops and manual activities related to books and funny stories!

Libri Liberi Bookshop: this nice bookshop very close to San Lorenzo area has a small theatre room where they offer shows for children. Laboratoires and markets for children or led by 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 Gallery and other museums material, 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 a funny 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 at weekends only 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 hot 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!