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  • Hotel Savoy Florence

    Just steps away from the main Florence fashion houses, the Hotel Savoy is the ideal base from which to visit the key attractions of this beautiful and historic city. Styled by Olga Polizzi, the hotel's elegant décor is contemporary Italian in style with...

  • Hotel Boccaccio Florence

    Florence: a city whose name evokes an atmosphere formed of unique landscapes and monuments, of famous names in literature and art who have been responsible for conceiving and providing awareness of the Italian culture. Right here, in the heart of this...

  • Restaurant La Carabaccia Florence

    The Carabaccia is a small boat in the shape of a walnut shell that, in ancient times, transported sand and salt back and forth across the Arno, the river that crosses Florence, and is the name of a recipe, a soup, that is now on all the local menus. History...

  • Relais Santa Croce Florence

    Set in a beautiful XVIII century building, in the very heart of Florence's historical center, the Hotel Relais Santa Croce is the perfect combination between luxury, refinement, good taste and modern comfort. After a careful restoration, the Ciofi-Jacometti...

  • Hotel Casci Florence

    The Hotel Casci was inaugurated in 1926 and happily welcomed by the local press as the first hotel in Florence whose rooms were equipped with both hot and cold water. It is located in an old XV century building, later converted into a convent, along Via...

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Florence and Surroundings

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Florence is "the city of the art" par excellence, because it has been the birthplace of the Renaissance, during the XV-XVI century; its historic center has been declared World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1982, due to the great value of the architectural, pictorial and sculptural monuments placed there.
Florence and its surroundings were included among the stops of the Grand Tour, the travel that English aristocrats made through the Continent in order to perfect their classic studies.
Sesto Fiorentino, placed on the slopes of Monte Morello, is known for the "Manifattura di Doccia", one of the first porcelain plants in Europe, founded by Marquis Ginori in 1735.
Nearby there is Fiesole, the birthplace of Florence, according to the poet Valéry, founded by the Etruscans, according to Dante; Boccaccio's Decameron is set here.
Not too far from Fiesole, there are Mugello and Valdisieve areas.
Bagno a Ripoli was an ancient thermal area, visited by Florentine noblemen: for this reason elegant residences for the high bourgeoisie were built in the past.
Do not forget to visit the Medici's villas in Castello, the historic center of Certaldo, composed by tower-houses and battlemented walls, were the poet Boccaccio was born; the boundary walls and the "Ospedale di Sant'Antonio" in Lastra a Signa, both projected by Brunelleschi.
Scandicci, Campi Bisenzio, Vinci... are towns bound to the fates of Florence and endowed with unmistakable charme!

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