What’s happening in Florence this week: 15–22 November 2026
It is a quieter stretch in Florence, with 2 events on this week, which makes choosing easy. All of them are concerts. Here is what is on, who it suits and how to plan your days out.
For music fans
Choose between 22Simba | Miria - Live Tour at Teatro Cartiere Carrara (ex Tuscany Hall) (Wednesday, 21:00) and Arisa - Live Tour at Nuovo Teatro Verdi (Thursday, 21:00).
Planning your days out
Most start at 21:00.
Wednesday is the busiest day, with 1 events.
Florence this week: quick answers
What’s on in Florence this week?
2 events, including 22Simba | Miria - Live Tour at Teatro Cartiere Carrara (ex Tuscany Hall) and Arisa - Live Tour at Nuovo Teatro Verdi.
Where to go in Florence: events, concerts and shows worth your night
Florence is a Renaissance city with a modern opera house, a summer of open-air music in the piazzas and gardens, and a compact centre where every evening ends with a walk across the Arno. Below is where to go in Florence for a night out, with addresses, and what tends to be on when.
Opera, ballet and concerts in Florence: the Maggio Musicale
The Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Piazza Vittorio Gui 1, 50144, near the Cascine park, maggiofiorentino.com) is the modern opera house, home to the Maggio Musicale festival in spring and a season of opera, ballet and symphony concerts the rest of the year. The Teatro Verdi (Via Ghibellina 99) hosts the Orchestra della Toscana and touring pop and musicals; the Teatro della Pergola, the oldest theatre in the city, does drama and chamber music. Rock and pop tours play the Nelson Mandela Forum and, in summer, the Visarno Arena in the Cascine.
Florence nightlife: Santo Spirito, Santa Croce and the Oltrarno
Piazza Santo Spirito, on the Oltrarno side of the river, is where locals spend the evening: bars around the square, aperitivo at seven, dinner at nine. Santa Croce and the streets around Via de’ Benci have the student bars and small clubs; the larger clubs are outside the centre and in the summer villages along the river. The buses stop around midnight, but everything central is a walk.
Museums and galleries in Florence for an evening
The Uffizi and the Accademia need timed tickets days ahead and stay open until about 6.30 pm; the Uffizi opens late on selected evenings in summer. For contemporary art, the Museo Novecento (Piazza Santa Maria Novella 10) holds the twentieth-century collection, and Palazzo Strozzi (Piazza degli Strozzi) stages the big touring exhibitions, open until 8 pm and late on Thursdays. Villa Bardini and the Boboli Gardens close at sunset.
Florence festivals and events by season
- Spring: the Scoppio del Carro on Easter Sunday in front of the Duomo, and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival of opera and concerts from late April into June.
- Summer: Firenze Rocks at the Visarno Arena in June, the Calcio Storico matches in Piazza Santa Croce around 24 June, and open-air cinema and concerts in the piazzas and at the Bardini and Boboli gardens through July and August.
- Autumn: the Florence Biennale and the opera and theatre seasons opening in September and October, and the Festival dei Popoli documentary festival in November.
- Winter: the Christmas market in Piazza Santa Croce from late November, and Pitti Uomo in January, when the fashion world fills the city.
Things to do in Florence tonight and this weekend
The listings above are the live version of all this: every concert, show, club night and exhibition on in Florence tonight, tomorrow and this weekend, with times, prices and tickets, updated every hour.
