On the plain between Florence and Prato, Campi Bisenzio grew along its river — the Bisenzio that names it — around the Rocca Strozzi, the fourteenth-century stronghold recorded in the Florentine family's chronicles. The parish church of Santo Stefano keeps artworks betraying the closeness of great patrons.
Today it is one of Italy's capitals of shopping and leisure — its retail hubs draw the whole metropolitan area — and the Teatrodante Carlo Monni keeps the cultural scene alive in the name of the locally born actor. Florence is twenty minutes away, Prato ten: a hardworking plain, not a suburb.
Near Campi Bisenzio
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
