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Accessible travel: Rome + Florence (cobbles, lifts, museums)

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Things change. Italy's accessibility information changes faster than its monuments. Lifts go out of service, a transit strike can close a line for a day, and a museum can reroute its step-free path during works. We checked what we could on 2026-10-10 and labelled what we could not. Where a source page was blocked or silent, we say so and name the page to check.

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Promise: a four-day Rome and Florence plan that is honest about stones, steps and lifts, with the booking steps that make assistance actually show up.
Trip length: 4 days, 3 nights (2 Rome, 1 Florence).
Best months: spring and autumn shoulder months for temperature; confirm weather and crowds on your dates (varies by year).
Budget band: roughly mid; accessible rooms, a few accessible-taxi rides and timed tickets are the cost drivers. Fill in your own numbers in chapter 8.
Best for: wheelchair users (manual and powered), walker and cane users, travelers with limited stamina, and the companions who help them.
Base guides (cross-linked, not repeated): /guides/rome/, /guides/florence-tuscany/, /guides/budget-rome-florence/, /guides/multigen-italy/.
State Department: Italy is Level 2, Exercise increased caution, due to terrorism; no regional Do Not Travel or Reconsider areas are listed [read 2026-10-10 — page dated September 10, 2026 in the advisory header and August 11, 2025 in the footer, https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/italy-travel-advisory.html].

At a glance

Stamped today: ATAC buses (100% with boarding platforms and a wheelchair area), ATAC Line A lift gaps, Sala Blu notice rules, Vatican Museums free wheelchair loan and free entry rule, Uffizi accessible entrance, Palazzo Vecchio and Boboli notes from the city's access PDF (read, not official attraction pages).
Not verified (pages blocked or silent): Colosseum free entry for disabled visitors and companion, Accademia official page, GEST tram accessibility, Duomo nave and Pantheon, Borghese lift, Ponte Vecchio, St. Peter's ramp, ETIAS.
Strike alert: GEST's home page showed a 24-hour company strike notice dated 10 October when we read it [read 2026-10-10, https://www.gestramvia.it/ — not an official fare source]. Check the date of any strike on your own trip.
Pace: three to four stops a day, one of them a timed-entry site. Heat, cobbles and queues eat energy.