Entry hours:
Suturday 10 and Sunday 11 March
from 9.30 am to 12.00 am only for professionals
from 12.00 pm to 7.30 pm for public
Monday 12 March
9.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Ticket entrance:
€ 15 for the public - daily ticket
€ 8 for professionals who have submitted a registration - the entrance card is valid for all the three days of the fair.

The event is open to professionals and general public.
Professionals and Traders can buy the ticket (8 € per person) and it is valid for the duration of the fair.

The general public can buy a daily ticket at a price of € 15 per person.
Children under 10 stay free.
Dogs are not allowed.

Invitation letter
The invitation letter is the letter we usually issue after a visitor’s request to help them for a visa issuance.
Before issuing an invitation letter, we need the following documents:

- In case of a new visitors all the business details so that we can proceed with the registration: business name, address, main telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, main referent’s name and position and his/her business contact details.
- Always for new visitors: An invoice issued for the requesting company by a supplier.
It would be much better if the invoice is issued by one of the exhibitors of one of our fairs. This procedure is the most important one to be followed for non-European Countries since it would avoid us the request of translated documents and allows us to quicken the registration process.
- Always for new visitors: in case they cannot send us an invoice, they can send a document issued by the Chamber of Commerce of the referent Country. In the document there should be clearly specified the business activity, for example "retailing of food and beverage".
IMPORTANT: the VAT number or any country’s tax codes, without any further specific documentation, cannot be accepted.
- The attendee’s passport’s copy. We need the first page with the passport’s details (issuance, expiry, number, attendee’s name and family name) and the back page where the attendee’s work is specified. ALWAYS, BOTH FOR REGISTERED AND NEW VISITORS.
- In case the job is not specified, we need to receive a certification on a company letterhead specifying the attendee’s role inside the company. ALWAYS, BOTH FOR REGISTERED AND NEW VISITORS.

After the reception of all the requested documents, our staff will decide whether the invitation letter can be issued.

IMPORTANT:

- In case of fairs on payment, invitation letters are issued only after the purchase of prepaid tickets. However the purchase cannot be made before the reception of all the required documents and our confirmation of the invitation letter’s issuance.

Exhibitor Parking
Pitti Immagine offers its exhibitors (cars only) a free underground parking located in the Porta al Prato - Stazione Leopolda.
Visitors may enter in the parking by presenting a special ticket, which will be sent along with the Pitti Card.
The parking is without housing and with the express exclusion of liability of Pitti Immagine for theft and damage to vehicles (or objects contained in them) parked therein.
The area is connected to the Fortezza da Basso with a continued shuttle-bus service.

Visitor Parking / fee parking 
outdoor at Piazza Vittorio Veneto
Indoor at Stazione Leopolda, Fortezza da Basso, piazza Stazione.

Wardrobe and luggage
Inside the exhibition area are available free of charge cloakroom and luggage storage for exhibitors and visitors.

The price of your pass includes a copy of the fair catalogue.
Every exhibitor has the right to a fair catalogue, distributed on stands on the first day of the fair.
Catalogues may only be obtained at the fair, they are never sent out.
Journalists can get their copy of the catalogue in the Press Room.
PR agents with a client at the fair will find their catalogue on the stand.
A pdf copy of the catalogue is available for online users. 

By train
The railway station Santa Maria Novella is far about one mile from the exhibition area, only 5 minutes by tram (line 1).

By Tram Line-1
(from Santa Maria Novella station, side via Alamanni 5 minutes to Stazione Leopolda).

By airplane
Amerigo Vespucci Airport in Florence. The Stazione Leopolda is 15/20 minutes away by taxi.

By car
Higway A11 (Firenze-mare): way out Firenze Nord.
Higway A1 (arriving form Milano/Bologna or Napoli/Roma): way out Firenze Nord
keep going on viale Guidoni and viale Redi following the indications for the city center, in direction of Porta al Prato.

By bus
line C2-C3 / stop at Porta al Prato.
 

In cooperation with Pitti Immagine, Carlson Wagonlit Travel proposes accomodations in some Florence hotels.

The agency to contact is:

Sara Marchi
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Groups and Events Department
phone + 39 055 0949 1861
fax +39 055 4367322
Via Panciatichi 38/5
50127, Firenze - Italy
smarchi@carlsonwagonlit.com
www.carlsonwagonlit.com