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Tourist tax in Florence, Barcelona and Amsterdam: what the rules say

By Gallivanting GadaboutBuilt from official dataSources: Comune di Firenze, BOE, overheid.nl, checked 6 Oct 2026Contains affiliate links
TL;DR

In Florence hotel guests pay €3.50 to €8.00 per person per night depending on stars, for up to 7 nights. In Barcelona city the Catalan tax runs from €1.00 to €7.00 by type of place, plus any city surcharge. In Amsterdam the tax is 12.5% of the price of the stay.1234 Check the latest: Comune di Firenze, Imposta di soggiorno: informati

Check the latest before you rely on it. Rates, limits and rules change, and some figures on this page may be out of date. Each amount links to the official page it comes from: check the current figure there before you travel, pay or declare anything. This page is general information, not legal or tax advice, and to the extent the law allows we accept no liability for any loss or problem arising from its use.

Florence

Florence's tax applies to people who do not live in the city, for at most 7 nights in a row. The place you stay collects it from you and gives you a receipt. Children are exempt until their twelfth birthday, and some groups pay half; the city's page lists them.1

Florence tourist tax per person per night, from February 2025
Where you stayTax
Hotel, 1 star€3.502
Hotel, 2 stars€4.502
Hotel, 3 stars€6.002
Hotel, 4 stars€7.002
Hotel, 5 stars€8.002
Holiday apartment (CAV)€6.002
Short-term tourist let€6.002
Youth hostel€4.002

Amounts in this table change. Check the latest: Comune di Firenze

These are the rates the city set in December 2024, valid from February 2025.1 Check the city's tax page for the current rates and the other types of accommodation.

Barcelona

Catalonia taxes stays in tourist accommodation. Under the law published in Spain's official gazette in 2026, the rates for Barcelona city from April 2026 are:3

Catalan tax on stays, Barcelona city rates from April 2026
Where you stayRate
Hotel, 5 stars or grand luxury, or luxury campsite€7.003
Hotel, 4 stars or 4 stars superior€3.403
Tourist flat (vivienda de uso turístico)€4.503
Youth hostel€1.003
Other campsites and places to stay€2.003

Amounts in this table change. Check the latest: Ley 2/2026 (Catalonia)

Barcelona's city council may add its own surcharge, which the law caps at €8 for each category.3 Check the latest: Ley 2/2026 (Catalonia) We could not read the city's own rules, so the surcharge is not included above, and we have not checked how the rates are counted (for example per person and night), which an earlier law sets. Read the law and ask your accommodation.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam's tourist tax is 12.5% of the price charged for the overnight stay, not counting the tax itself.4 The provider owes it and may pass it on to the guest. The ordinance has applied since January 2024 and was still shown as in force when we read it.4

Read the ordinance. Cruise passengers visiting for the day fall under a separate rule, not covered here.

What about Paris, Rome, Venice and other cities?

We could not use the official pages of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Milan, Venice, Lisbon, Porto, Prague, Dubrovnik or Athens: their terms do not allow reuse, say nothing about it, or the sites blocked automated reading. Your accommodation can tell you what applies.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Rates change. Cities and regions revise these taxes often; the figures are those in force when we read the rules.
  • Barcelona's surcharge is missing. The city's own surcharge could not be checked, so the total in Barcelona may be higher than the table.
  • Exemptions. Only the exemptions named above are covered; each city lists others.

Related: Japan's travel taxes in 2026 · Is it expensive? Price levels by country · Hotel booking hacks, checked.

Key takeaways

  • Florence: up to 7 nights, children under twelve exempt, rates by type and stars.
  • Barcelona: the Catalan rate, plus a city surcharge we could not check.
  • Amsterdam: a percentage of the price of the stay, not a fixed amount.
  • What we would skip: budgeting with a single per-night figure for a city; the tax depends on where you stay and, in Amsterdam, on the price.

Sources

Facts from the Comune di Firenze tax page and its December 2024 deliberation, Catalonia's Ley 2/2026 as published in the BOE, and Amsterdam's ordinance on overheid.nl, all read on 6 October 2026. See how we research.

  1. Comune di Firenze, Imposta di soggiorno: informati. Read it. Accessed 6 October 2026. Licence: CC BY.
  2. Comune di Firenze, Giunta deliberation 535 of 10 December 2024 (rates from 1 February 2025). Read it. Accessed 6 October 2026. Licence: CC BY.
  3. Ley 2/2026 (Catalonia), Boletín Oficial del Estado, BOE-A-2026-6642. Read it. Accessed 6 October 2026. Basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  4. Gemeente Amsterdam, Verordening toeristenbelasting 2024 (CVDR703815), on overheid.nl. Read it. Accessed 6 October 2026.

Changes made. We translated and summarised the rules. Florence: Comune di Firenze, CC BY. Barcelona: basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (boe.es); not an official version. Amsterdam: regulations carry no copyright under the Dutch Copyright Act, article 11.