Student accommodation in Florence
5 stays in Florence
5 places in Florence
Start with your university
Pick a university and see the buildings around it, with the walk or the ride to campus on every one.
Where to look in Florence
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Florence
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
San Marco and San Lorenzo
North of the cathedral around the older faculties and the central market, which makes it the most practical central choice for a full year.
- Il Santoprice on enquiry
- S4price on enquiry
- Manifatturafrom €990/month
Santo Spirito and Oltrarno
Over the river on the artisan side, still a little cheaper than the right bank and reliably better for food.
- Yugo Florentia Living Firenzefrom €891/month
Novoli and Rifredi
North west around the newer campus and the hospital, the best value in Florence and on tram line 1.
- Rifredifrom €850/month
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Florence actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Biblioteca delle Oblate
Public library and terraces in the historic centre with study space.
- Tram line T2
The route linking Santa Maria Novella, Novoli and the airport side of the city.
- Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio
A central neighbourhood food market east of the Duomo.
- Cascine Park
The city’s largest public park along the Arno, west of the centre.
A few Florence buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- Manifattura0.3 miles
Closest to Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Il Santo2.3 miles
Closest to European University Institute
- Rifredifrom €850/month
Lowest listed rent here
- Yugo Florentia Living Firenze9 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Florence
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Florence takes in a remarkable number of students for its size, and they come from two directions. The Università degli Studi di Firenze is a large Italian university with faculties spread across the city and a newer campus at Novoli. On top of that sit dozens of foreign study-abroad programmes, mostly American, concentrated in the historic centre. Both groups are competing for rooms inside a World Heritage centre that cannot be built in, which is why a short let here costs what it does.
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Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
Other student cities in Europe
Comparing options? These are the other cities in Europe where most students on our shortlist are basing themselves.
Getting around Florence
Three tram lines now cross Florence and they have changed how students live here: line 1 runs out to Novoli and Scandicci, line 2 to the airport, and they make the outer districts realistic in a way the buses alone did not. ATAF runs the buses on the same ticket, with a student rate. The historic centre is almost entirely pedestrianised and inside a traffic restriction zone, so a car is actively unhelpful; walking covers the middle in twenty minutes and bicycles are common on the flat. Santa Maria Novella station reaches Bologna in about forty minutes, Rome in an hour and a half and Milan in under two.
Frequently asked questions
- Everything we list in Florence is in San Marco and San Lorenzo, Santo Spirito and Oltrarno, and Novoli and Rifredi. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- Not one of the 5 buildings we list in Florence puts it in writing. That is a gap in what they publish rather than a bill to budget for, and it is worth asking before you compare two rents.