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Updated: Wed 27 May 2026 15:21 CET

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Since a ban on new tourist lets began in Florence's Unesco-listed centre last year, the number of new rentals has surged in surrounding neighbourhoods. Photo by TIZIANA FABI / AFP

The city has tripled the area where new short-term tourist rentals are blocked, in the first move of its kind in Italy.