How we make Florence.city
Florence.city is a discovery platform for Florence, Italy. This page explains where our information comes from, how our editorial guides are researched and written, how often we refresh, and how to tell us when something is wrong. We'd rather be plainly honest about our method than pretend a small team works like a large newsroom.
Where listing data comes from
Every place on Florence.city — restaurants, cafés, hotels, attractions, and the rest — is sourced from Google Places. Each place clears a quality floor and is then ranked by a transparent weighted score built from six inputs: rating, review count, geo-centrality, recency, category-completeness, and source-agreement.
Listings are ranked by that algorithm, not by editors. Nothing on Florence.city is paid, sponsored, or affiliate-driven. We display no advertising and accept no compensation from the venues we list. Ratings and review counts are shown from their single source — we never average ratings across different providers.
How our guides are made — and where AI fits
Our guides are clearly-marked editorial, separate from the algorithm-ranked listings. They carry the line “Made with AI, Designed by a Human”, and we mean it literally:
- AI assists the drafting. We use large language models to help research, structure, and draft prose, working only from places that already exist in our sourced catalog.
- A human is responsible for every published guide. A person sets the angle, checks the route and the facts, edits the writing, and decides what ships. No guide goes live unread.
- We don't invent places or fabricate detail. Every venue a guide recommends links to a real entry in our catalog; build-time checks reject any reference to a place that doesn't exist.
- We don't fake authority. Guides are published under Florence.city as the editorial entity rather than under invented author personas.
How often we update
Place data sourced from Google Places refreshes on a rolling cadence of roughly every 10 days, so opening hours, addresses, and contact details stay reasonably current. Even so, details change between refreshes — always verify hours, prices, and availability directly with a venue before you rely on them, especially before visiting.
Editorial guides are reviewed on a 60–90 day cadence. Each guide shows a visible “Updated” date so you can see how fresh it is. When a guide changes substantively, we move that date and, where it matters, note what changed.
Sources and citations
Where a guide draws on external references for facts — opening arrangements, history, official ticketing — we cite them. Citations appear as links in the body of the guide and, where provided, in the guide's structured data so the references travel with the page.
Corrections
If something is wrong — a closed venue, a moved address, a stale price, a guide that no longer reflects the city — please tell us. Email contact@florence.city with the page and what's off. We aim to acknowledge corrections within a few business days, fix listing data on the next refresh, and update affected guides directly. Material guide corrections move the “Updated” date.
Last updated: 2026-06-15