Services for People with Disabilities in Tuscany
Overview of where to go and what to do if you are mobility, sight or hearing impaired, a wheelchair or cane user and living in or visiting Tuscany...
Travel and Transport
Airports
In all major Italian airports there is a special service providing assistance to disabled people: wheelchair service and assistance during boarding and landing. The assistance will be arranged through the airline once the airline is notified by the passenger.
- For information on the facilities available for passengers with special needs at Pisa airport: Click here
Public transport
The following transport companies have a fleet of buses specifically designed to accommodate the disabled.
- Azienda Trasporti Livorno (ATL)
At: via Di Franco 9, 57123 Livorno (LI)
Tel: 0586 84 74 13
Fax: 0586 88 45 23
email - Cooperative Autotrasporti Pratese (C.A.P)
At: Piazza Duomo 18, 59100 Prato (PO)
Tel: 0574 60 82 23
Fax: 0574 60 82 29
email - Grifo Tour
At: Via Emilia 110, 58100 Grosseto (GR)
Tel: 0564 21 012
Fax: 0564 21 012
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Access to no-drive areas of Florence
To gain permission to drive in Florence's no-drive zones, call the Municipal Police 24 hours before access is required. Provide the following:
- Name and surname of the disabled person
- License plate of the car
- Dates of entry to the Florence no drive areas
- Pass number and place of issue of the current disabled pass
- Tel freephone (in Italy): 800 33 98 91
- Email or Fax: 055 40 40 253, using the request form provided: Click here (PDF)
Tourism for the Disabled in Tuscany
Turismo senza Barriere is a tourism and leisure web portal for the disabled in Italy. It provides information on:
- accessibility in Tuscany
- visiting Tuscany including itineraries for disabled visitors
- transport
- links to other useful sites
The city of Siena is welcoming disabled visitors:
- For a list of museums with easy access: Click here (PDF)
- To find out more about Siena in sign-language, for hearing-impaired visitors: Click here
Associations for the Disabled in Tuscany
Associations for the Disabled and information centres can be found at the following Tuscany addresses:
- AIPD (Associazione Italiana Persone Down): Association for people with Down's Syndrome and their families
- Arezzo
At: Via Cavour, 97 52100 Arezzo
Tel: 0575 351 597
Fax: 0575 352 204
- Grosseto
At: Via Papa Giovanni XXIII - Circoscrizione n. 3 Gorarella, 58100 Grosseto (GR)
Tel: 0564 494 797
Fax: 0564 452 981 - Pisa-Livorno
At: Via Cesare Battisti, 55 56100 Pisa (PI)
Tel: 050 48 689
Fax: 050 48 689
email - Associazione Paraplegici (in Italian): Association for Paraplegics
At: Sede c/o Villa Fabbricotti
via Vittorio Emanuele II, 64, 50134 Florence (FI)
Tel: 055 486 474
email - L'Associazione Toscana Idrocefalo e Spina Bifida: Association for sufferers of Hydrocephaly and Spina Bifida
At: Parrocchia di Santa Maria a Settignano, Piazza Tommaseo 18, 50135 Florence (FI)
Tel: 055 697 617
Fax: 055 697 617
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- A.I.S.M. Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla: Italian Association for Multiple Sclerosis
Sezione di Firenze Luigi Amaducci
At: Via Rocca Tedalda 275, 50100 Florence (FI)
Tel: 055 691 033
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- U.I.L.D.M. Unione Italiana Lotta alla Distrofia Muscolare: Italian Union for people with Muscular Dystrophy
- Arezzo
At: Rigutino Ovest 283, 52040 Rigutino (AR)
Tel: 0575 978 830
Fax: 055 691 033
email - Firenze
At: Via San Jacopo al Girone 6/a, 50014 Girone-Fiesole (FI)
Tel: 055 690 970
Fax: 055 690 970
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- Livorno
At: Corso Italia 40 (c/o Lombardi), 57017 Stagno (LI)
Tel: 0586 943 275
Fax: 0586 444 446
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- Lucca
At: Via Fiorentini 25 c/o Villa Vecchiacchi, 55100 Lucca (LU)
Tel: 0583 954 730
Fax: 0583 954 730
email - Pisa
At: Via De Amicis, 116 (c/o Marcheschi), 56010 Arena Metato (PI )
Tel: 050 810 102
Fax: 050 810 102
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Sports associations for the disabled in Tuscany
The Italian Paralympic Committee (Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, CIP) promotes disabled sport and associated activities.
- Tuscany Provincial Committee
At: Via Leonida Repaci, 3/a, 55049 Viareggio (LU)
Tel: 0584 52 891
Fax: 0584 407 111
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