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Moving to Florence: Language & First Steps
Renaissance city popular with students and creatives; smaller, so daily Italian matters more.
Living in Florence
A Renaissance city popular with students and creatives; because it's small and tourist-heavy, everyday Italian matters more for finding non-tourist housing and handling the questura. Oltrarno and Campo di Marte are common newcomer areas.
To settle into Florence you'll need Italian — and the practical kind: your residency registration (residenza) at the comune and your codice fiscale tax number, opening a bank account, and seeing a doctor. Here's what to do first and the phrases to learn.
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What to do in your first week in Florence?
- Register your address / residency — your residency registration (residenza) at the comune and your codice fiscale tax number.
- Open a local bank account so you can get paid and pay rent.
- Register with a local doctor (GP) and sort health insurance.
- Get a local SIM / mobile plan and set up any required digital ID.
- Learn your transport options — tickets, passes and routes.
Italian phrasebooks for Florence
For the full country picture, see our guide to moving to Italy.
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