CITT DI FIRENZE

The Venues

Public Transport

Landmarks

Train stations

1. Villa Vogel

---- ATAF Bus line 17

4. Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral

9. Pitti palace

2. Stibbert Museum

---- ATAF Bus line 4

5. Baptistery

10. Santa Maria Novella

3. Villa Camerata Hostel

---- ATAF Bus line 11

6. Palazzo Vecchio

11. Santa Croce

---- Tramway Line

7. Uffizi Gallery Museum

12. Fortezza Da Basso

8. Ponte Vecchio
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13. Santa Maria Novella

train station
14. Firenze Campo di
Marte train station

MOVING IN FLORENCE

The three main venues of HEMAC Florentia 2014 are spread throughout the city of Florence. This will give you the unique chance to visit Florence
while moving to reach the venues of the event.
Public transport in the city is managed by ATAF, which manages buses and a modern tramway. The map on the previous page highlights the main
paths you should focus on when moving to and from the main site: Villa Vogel.
The T1 Tramway is active from early morning to 22:00, and delivers roughly a tram every 7 minutes. The time schedule of the bus lines is indicated in
detail below. Tickets for the buses can also be used for the tramway. A normal ticket costs 1,20, and has a 90 minutes validity once endorsed.
Special tickets are available for longer travels or more days. ATAF website contains many usefull information.

Moving from Villa Vogel

Whichever your destination is, the first thing to do is to get on the T1 Tramway on Talenti tram stop and reach Santa Maria Novella train station.
Most bus lines will have a stop to the station. Depending on your destination, you may have different choices.
Go to the Stibbert Museum

Get on a Line 4 bus and travel all the way to one of the bus stops highlighted on the map

Go to Villa Camerata Hostel

Friday and Saturday

Get on a Line 11 bus and travel all the way to the headline, which is right in front of the main
entrance of the Hostel
Sunday
Get on a Line 17 bus and travel to one of the bus stops highlighted on the map

Moving to Villa Vogel

If you want to reach Villa Vogel, you should first reach Santa Maria Novella train station. Once there, get on the T1 Tramway, and step down at
Talenti tram stop
Coming from Stibbert Museum
Coming from Villa Camerata Hostel

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Once out of the museum, walk downhill to the end of Via Federico Stibbert, then walk to one of the
highlighted bus stops. Line 4 will bring you to Santa Maria Novella train station.
Friday and Saturday
Walk downhill to the main entrance of the Hostel. The headline of Line 11 is on the side of the
roundabout. Line 11 will bring you to Santa Maria Novella train station.
Sunday
Walk downhill to the main entrance of the Hostel and reach one of the highlighted bus stops. Line
17 will bring you to Santa Maria Novella train station.

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VILLA VOGEL

1. Main gym

2. Sparring Gym

3. Villa Vogel

Parking lots
Two big parking areas are available in front of Villa Vogel, and right in front of
the main gym
People coming from the tramway will reach Villa Vogel from the park
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4. the Limonaia

5. Garden

6. Park

Garden and Park

The garden right outside the sparring gym will be available for free sparring
throughout the event. Collateral reenactment events will take place in the
park right besides Villa Vogel.
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FRIDAY 14 TIME SCHEDULE

9:30 12:30

Visit to the Stibbert Museum

Hour

1. Main gym

09:00 13:30

17:00 18:45

2. Sparring gym

Marco Rubboli, Luca

Cesari: Fiore dei
Liberi: Selection of
longsword
techniques. Results
after the comparison
of the four
manuscripts
Ton Puey: "Basic
Destreza"

18:45 20:00

Piermarco
Terminiello: Rapier
Self-Defence from
Nicolletto Giganti's
Second Book

3,4. Villa Vogel

Registrations

Free Sparring

13:30 15:00

15:00 16:45

Daniel Jaquet:
Experimenting HEMA, a scientific method?

Opening aperitiff

Roger Norling,
Mattias Moberg:
The dussack in
motion

Free Sparring
il Nero photography

Fabrice Cognot:
Poleaxe basics

Oliver Walter, Harry

Winter: What
Paulus Hector Mair
could do with his
staff

Free Sparring

Activities on Fiday will start at the Stibbert Museum. Visits to the museum armoury will start every 15 minutes, in groups of up to 25 people.
Dr. Daniel Jaquet will held his lecture in the ballroom of Villa Stibbert.
Activities at Villa Vogel will start at 09:00. People directly arriving to Villa Vogel will be able to register and have full use of the gyms for free sparring
sessions.
An opening aperitiff will be served inside Villa Vogel starting from 13:30.

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SATURDAY 15 TIME SCHEDULE

Hour

1. Main gym

2. Sparring gym

9:00 10:00

Warmup

Ludus Magnus registrations

10:00 12:00

Matt Easton, Carlo

Parisi: "The art and
science of the feint"

12:00 13:30

Matt Galas: Meyer

longsword: the 4
openings

il Nero
photography

Free Sparring

13:30 14:00
14:00 14:30

Jens Peter Kleinau:

"Behind the obvious:
understanding the
hidden treasures of
Talhoffer's Messer in
the Munich Cod.
icon. 394a"

3,4. Villa Vogel and Limonaia

Dierk Hagedorn: Fighting in armour:

concepts and misconceptions

14:30 16:15

Paolo Tassinari:
"Italian XVI century
two-handed sword,
basic principles - I"

Daniel Jaquet, Dierk

Hagedorn:
"Shortened sword:
throw him on the
ground!"

16:30 18:15

Roberto Gotti,
Massimiliano
Fraulini: "Marozzo
dagger and
grappling
techniques"

Andreas Engstrom:
"Techniques using
offline and passing
footwork from
Scandinavian
military sabre"

18:45 20:00

Roger Norling,
Mattias Moberg:
"Quarterstaff: catch
him in his own
techniques"

Women
Warriors
Ludus Magnus

Luca Dazi, Andrea

Morini, Riccardo
Rudilosso: "Spear
and shield, for the
lovers of a classic"

Guardia di
Croce: original
treatises
showcase

il Nero
photography

Tournament Finals

The Ludus Magnus Open Tournament will be held on saturday. Registrations will be open for all the participants untill 10:00. If the weather is clear
and warm, the Tournament will be held in the open sparring area next to the sparring gym ( 5 on the map), and the sparring gym will be reserved for
free sparring, as usual.

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SUNDAY 16 TIME SCHEDULE

Hour

1. Main gym

9:00 10:00

Warmup

10:00 12:00

Paolo Tassinari:
"Italian XVI century
two-handed sword,
basic principles - II"

12:00 14:30

Ton Puey:
"Advanced Destreza:
complex actions on
the blade of the
opponent"

2. Sparring gym
Oliver Walter,
Harry Winter: "The
eight techniques
with the Messer
from Codex
Wallerstein"

Free Sparring

14:30 16:15

Carlo Parisi: "Basic

Backsword after
Zach Wylde"

16:30 17:00

Tournament Awards and Closing ceremony

17:00 19:00

Ilkka Hartikainen:
"Unlocking the
Anonimo Bolognese"

Free Sparring

Free Sparring

Challenge Conan
Alessandro
Battistini, Iacopo
Venni: "Florentine
sword and dagger"

3,4. Villa Vogel and Limonaia

il Nero
photography

Free Sparring

Challenge Conan

Challenge Conan will take place in the sparring gym. Registrations to the challenge will be open for all participants directly in the gym.
During the days of the event il Nero photography will set up a professional photographic set inside the Limonaia.

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Guardia di
Croce: original
treatises
showcase

ARRIVAL, REGISTRATIONS AND LOGISTICS

Stibbert Museum
HEMAC Florentia will start its activities in the Stibbert Museum, on friday morning, from 9.30.
People attending the visit to the museum will meet in the park of Villa Stibbert. The museum is part of the park, so you will be able to reach the
wonderful gardens from the museum entrance.
Visits to the museum will start at 15 minutes intervals each, and each visit will have 25 participants at maximum. The visit lasts for one hour, and it
covers all the weapons and armours exposition in details.
Dr. Daniel Jaquet will have his lecture Interpreting HEMA: a scientific method? in the ballroom of Villa Stibbert. Participants to the lecture should
take care of visiting the muesum before 10:30.
Registrations to the event will be done directly in Villa Vogel.

Villa Vogel
The main venue, Villa Vogel, will be open from 09:00. The main gym and the sparring gym will both be available for free sparring untill the start of the
workshops.
Registrations will be done in the Limonaia (4), inside Villa Vogel, and will last till the start of the workshops. When registering you will be given a
bracelet.
Access to the gyms will be granted only after you have registered and you show the bracelet.
We suggest attendees to park their car in the big parking of the main gym, walk to Villa Vogel to register, and then... enjoy!

Opening aperitiff
Starting from 13:30 the staff of HEMAC Florentia will be glad to meet all the participants inside Villa Vogel for a welcome aperitiff. There will be
typical italian foods and beverages for all participants. The aperitiff will last till the start of the workshops.

Logistics
People are welcome to leave their equipment in the sparring gym (2) when they leave Villa Vogel. The gyms will be locked, but not supervised.

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THE NIGHTS
We would like to leave complete freedom of movement to all the participants to HEMAC Florentia 2014. However, as it may be a good thing, we have
planned some meeting points at specific places where you will find other participants.

Thursday
As some of you will be in Florence on thursday night, we would like to welcome you to the gym of the Sala d'Arme
Achille Marozzo Firenze. You will be able to attend one of their lessons, and have some good free sparring, if you wish.
The address of the gym is: Via Pistoiese, 130.
Should you need more info, feel free to contact iacopo.venni@achillemarozzo.it or call +39 345 21 33 245.
As an alternative, some of us will meet in Piazza del Duomo (in front of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence cathedral) at
22:00 and have a walk to the near Hard Rock Caf. If you want to hang out with us, feel free to join.

Friday

The meeting point for friday night will be Piazza Santa Croce, at 22:00. The plaza is surrounded by pubs and cozy places
where people can hang out staring at the wonderfull Basilica of Santa Croce.

Saturday

Saturday night we'll meet in Piazza del Carmine, at 22:00. Once again we'll be in a place surrounded by small pubs and
bars, right near the magic atmosphere of Lungarno.

Refer to the contacts below if you need to keep in contact with us during the nights.
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CONTACTS AND ADDRESSES

Here it is a list of phone numbers and contacts you may find usefull during the events

Emergency numbers
First Aid 118

Police 113

Firefighters 115

Services
Taxi +39 055 4390

+39 055 4242

ATAF website www.ataf.net

HEMAC Florentia Staff

Luca +39 340 24 20 576

Iacopo +39 345 21 33 245

Carlo +39 338 362 9076

Villa Vogel +39 055 27 67 108

Stibbert Museum +39 055 47 55 520

Villa Camerata Hostel +39 055 60 14 51

Venues
Via delle Torri, 23

Via Federico Stibbert, 26

Viale Augusto Righi, 4

BUS SCHEDULES
You'll find in the following table a summary of the time schedule of the bus lines you will most likely use
Line 4 (Stibbert Museum Santa Maria Novella Train Station)
Station (Mercato Centrale) -> Museum

21' trip

08:38

08:48

08:59

09:09

09:20

09:30

09:40

Museum -> Station (Side)

14' trip

11:30

11:40

11:50

12:00

12:10

12:20

12:33

Line 11 (Villa Camerata Hostel Santa Maria Novella Train Station) not available on Sunday
Villa Camerata (Right outside the entrance) -> Station

18' trip

07:37

07:57

08:18

08:39

09:00

09:21

09:42

Station (Piazza dell'Unit) -> Villa Camerata

26' trip

19:30

19:45

20:02

20:20

20:40

21:00

21:18

Line 17 (Villa Camerata Hostel Santa Maria Novella Train Station) - Sunday
Villa Camerata (SEE MAP) -> Station (Side)

19' trip

07:50

08:08

08:24

08:40

08:56

09:12

09:28

Station -> Villa Camerata

15' trip

19:02

19:15

19:29

19:43

20:03

20:24

20:45

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Well said he that without books no one shall be a good Master nor even a good Student in this art. And I,
Fiore, confirm it to be true, because this art is so vast that there is no one in the world with such a great
memory to keep in mind even a quarter of it without books. And not knowing more than a quarter part of the
art, I would not be a Master.
- Fiore de' Liberi

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