Tuscan Regional Administrative Tribunal
Tuscany's regional Administrative Court, known as TAR Toscana.
The Tuscany Regional Administrative Tribunal refused on 25 September 2026 to suspend Florence's freeze on new tourist lets in nine zones, finding the challengers had described their harm only in generic terms. It has set no date for a full hearing.
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The Tuscany Regional Administrative Tribunal, known as TAR Toscana, is the first-instance Administrative Court for the Tuscany region of Italy. It sits in Florence and hears challenges to acts of public bodies in the region, from municipal ordinances to regional planning decisions. Its rulings can be appealed to the Council of State in Rome.
In 2026 the Court became the main legal venue for Florence's short-term rental rules. On 30 June it upheld the city's requirement that hosts identify guests, ruling that a video call with visual checks of identity documents satisfies the duty while fully unattended key-box entry does not. On 25 September it refused interim suspension of the city's freeze on new tourist lets in nine zones, and it has set no date for the full hearing.
Because regional Administrative Courts decide cases one region at a time, the tribunal's reasoning carries weight beyond Tuscany as other Italian cities draft their own historic-centre limits.
The tribunal declines to suspend the freeze
The tribunal's 25 September 2026 order kept Florence's ban on new tourist lets in nine zones in force while the challenge proceeds. Interim suspension requires an applicant to show concrete, imminent harm, and the judges found the operators had described theirs only in very generic terms.
the Court has fixed no date for the full hearing, so the freeze will run for months on the strength of an interim refusal. It was the tribunal's second short-let ruling in Florence in three months. On 30 June 2026 it rejected rental operator Valerix srl's appeal against the city's guest-identification rule, accepting identity checks by video call but upholding the ban on unattended key-box check-in. Both decisions bind Tuscany only, but they are among the first judicial tests of Italian historic-centre rental curbs.
Is Florence's short-let freeze still in force?
Why did the court refuse to pause the Florence freeze?
When is the full hearing on Florence's freeze?
