Fodor's Travel Talk Forums - how long is the drive from florence to rome?

Excerpted from a previous post, just a week ago: http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34372758 Best wishes, Rex ======================== ========= Rome to Florence Author: Rebecca Brandt ([email protected]) Date: 10/13/2002, 07:53 pm Message: Can someone please tell me how far it is by car from Rome to Florence? Thanks Rebecca Author: Tom ([email protected]) Date: 10/14/2002, 08:06 am Message: Yes and no. Leaving Rome can take two hours, or it can take 15 minutes. On second thought, it is coming into rome that can be nerve-wracking, more than leaving. And finding your way into Florence can be daunting to a first timer. If you choose, you can certainly do the autostrada portion WELL UNDER three hours, maybe even under TWO. A lot of Italians sure do. Author: Alice Twain ([email protected]) Date: 10/15/2002, 12:41 pm Message: Ann: The drive from ROme to Florence take 2hours, two hours and a half at worst. Maybe even less with the new law that allows cars to reach 150 Kmph on the autostrada. Last time I had to do it, it took us 2 hours or maybe even a bit less. It is tru that it was 6am when we left, but it is also true that we still had the old law allowing less speed on the autostrada.