UK → Tuscany
Removals to Tuscany from the UK
Where the last mile is a track, not a street
The arrival leg
Down the A1 to Florence or Arezzo, or the coastal A12 for Lucca, Pisa and the Versilia. From the motorway it is regional roads, then provincial roads, then quite often a strada bianca with grass down the middle.
Tuscany outside Florence is the destination people picture when they picture moving to Italy, and it is also where the final approach most often decides the job. Farmhouses at the end of a white road, hill towns with a gate built for a cart, and villas whose drive turns back on itself twice.
None of that is unusual and all of it is knowable in advance. What it is not is something to discover with a loaded vehicle at the bottom of a track.
What the last mile does to a vehicle
- The track is the job
- We look at the final approach on satellite and ask for photographs of the gate, the turning space and the surface. Gravel, mud and a slope defeat wheels that work perfectly on tarmac, so the transfer vehicle is chosen from what is actually there.
- Hill-town gates
- Towns like Montepulciano, Cortona and San Gimignano have an old gate, a steep street beyond it and no room to turn. Deliveries there are shuttles from outside the walls, planned as such.
- Restoration properties
- A great many Tuscan moves go into a house that is still being finished. Delivering into a building site needs different protection and a different unloading order, and where the property genuinely is not ready, storing here and delivering later is usually cheaper than doing it twice.
Who moves to Tuscany
Retirements and half-retirements, restoration projects that have been running longer than anyone planned, and families making a full move with school-age children — usually to somewhere within reach of Siena, Arezzo or the coast.
Before Tuscany, there is the rest of the journey
Everything up to the Italian border is the same for every destination on this site: collection at your UK address, export packing, the Channel crossing and the run through France. The route page sets that out in full, including which Alpine crossing suits which part of Italy.
The paperwork is the same too — a customs declaration, a detailed inventory and Transfer of Residence relief on your own used belongings. That is covered on the customs page. France appears on this site only as transit; if France is your destination rather than your motorway, our sister site france-removals.co.uk covers that corridor.
Moving to Tuscany — your questions
My house is at the end of a long track. Can you reach it?
Usually, with the right vehicle. We look at the approach on satellite and ask you for photographs of the gate and the turning space. Where a large vehicle cannot make it, we transfer to a smaller one — planned in advance, not discovered at the bottom of the hill.
The house is not finished. Should we still move?
Tell us how unfinished. Delivering into an active building site is possible with different protection and a different unloading order. If it is genuinely not ready, storage in the UK until it is tends to work out cheaper than delivering twice.
Do you cover the Tuscan coast as well as the hills?
Yes — Lucca, Pisa, the Versilia and down to Grosseto and the Maremma. The coastal strip comes in on the A12 rather than the A1, which is a different leg entirely.
Getting a quote for Tuscany
Send the UK address, the Italian one and a rough room list. The access at the far end shapes the quote more than the distance does.