BY CAR (from the Highway to My Friends)

 

Part 4: from "via del Romito" to My Friends

 

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Once crossed the bridge at the end of “via del Romito”, you have to turn right and you will see that the road forks: it goes downhill on the right and it stays at the same level of the bridge on the left.

Take the left direction and you will enter a road that makes a wide bend on the left and then goes downhill.

Now you will see the high walls of a fortress on your left; go ahead until you will have to turn left (round the corner of the fortress) and to enter a huge avenue (“viale Strozzi”).

This avenue will go underground in a 100-metres-long passage and you have to take the right lane at this point.

Soon afterwards the end of the underground passage, you will meet a cross-light on the right at the beginning of a wide and straight avenue (“viale Lavagnini”); drive along it for 250 metres till an other cross-light.

You have to turn right just before this cross-light and you will enter a narrow street between a modern white palace and a chemist's shop ("Farmacia S.Caterina").

This street (called "via Santa Caterina di Alessandria"), after 100 metres, passes along the left side of a large square ("piazza Indipendenza") with trees and flower-beds.

At the first cross-light you meet, go straight on.

Then you won't see any more the square on your right, but shops on both sides of the street.

You are in "via Nazionale" now.

The first thing you meet is a little cross-roads.

You have to go right at this cross-roads and you will enter a narrow street called "via Guelfa".

Drive along it till a very little square ("piazza del Crocifisso").

Here turn left and you can park for a while.

Then, if you like, I could help you to find a good parking place.

My lodge is just 5 metres far from this square, just left, round the corner between the square and "via Faenza" but you can't go there by car.

On the left side of "via Faenza", you will notice a wooden door (open during the day) at the number 66 (black).

There, ring at a white button where there's "My Friends room rent" written.

You will meet me at the same floor where you will be, after opening a black-ironed greized gate.

You have arrived at My Friends!!

 

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