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the best luxury hotels in Florence

An expert guide to the top luxury hotels in Florence, including the best for five star service, Arno views, beautiful gardens and opulent interiors, in central Florence near to the Duomo, Ponte Vecchio and Via Tornabuoni.

Villa Cora

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The St. Regis Florence

The hotel is located in the heart of prime Florentine luxe boutique territory, and no distance from the major sights, with Arno views. Its feel is sheer opulence, and the ambience is enhanced by service which manages to canada goose store be both discreet and affable. All the 100 bedrooms are as luxurious as you’d expect for this level of hotel. In an elegant glassed in courtyard, the hotel’s upscale Winter Garden by Caino restaurant is overseen by Valeria Piccini, the larger than life chef of highly rated Tuscan foodie pilgrimage restaurant Da Caino.

Four Seasons Hotel Firenze

As soon as you walk into the lobby a Renaissance loggia, decorated with original bas reliefs and stuccoes you realise that this is canada goose black friday sale no ordinary luxe kip. The hotel spreads out between the main building 15th century Palazzo della Gherardesca and a 16th century former convent on the other side canada https://www.mild-und-leise.de goose uk shop of the eleven acre park, which is the largest private garden in Florence. With its oil paintings, antiques and slightly Old Parisian dcor, it’s all elegantly sumptuous, and in the best possible haute bourgeois taste. Individually canada goose outlet online uk decorated, the 116 rooms and cheap canada goose uk suites are relaxing old style refuges from the bustle outside.

Read the full review: Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, FlorenceWith canada goose outlet uk sale a commanding position on the River Arno, right next to the Ponte Vecchio, the is possibly the best located hotel in Florence. The modern Italian designer interiors in greys, creams, whites and browns are elegant and inoffensive. Rugs cover wooden floors and large lamps abound. Clean white walls are adorned with black and white 1930s 60s photos of international stars in Florence. The bedrooms are huge; every room has a canada canada goose black friday sale goose outlet sale kitchenette (inside a cabinet) complete with mini dishwasher. Technology is used extensively but unobtrusively in the rooms, the lifts (take a selfie on the in lift iPad, or choose the music) and in the foyer. Place Firenze has been much imitated since its launch, but few of the copies match the warm, suave, elegant original. It’s on lively Piazza Santa Maria Novella, just around the corner from elegant, boutique lined Via Tornabuoni. canada goose outlet It’s a distillation of Florentine elegance, its classic contemporary dcor the result of a meeting of minds between Italo Israeli hotelier Ori Kafri and local interior designer Michele Bonan. It all feels a little like you’ve stepped into the house canada goose outlet nyc of a classy collector, a rich Florentine uncle who likes to set classical French and Italian antiques off against Moroccan lamps and Chinese lacquered sideboards. Place Firenze, FlorencePiazza Repubblica is right outside the door, and the Duomo and buy canada goose jacket cheap the chi chi shopping street of Via Tornabuoni are both a minute’s walk away. canada goose factory sale In the courtyard atrium three storeys high, and topped by a skylight the handsome austerity of the original space is warmed by relaxed, clubby furnishings. But it’s in the rooms really the point of where designer Michele Bonan’s classic modern design sense is canadian goose jacket most persuasively expressed. The sumptuous, museum like interior boasts original frescoes and marble fireplaces, and a Venetian marble sarcophagus discovered during restoration now makes for an unusual bathtub in one of the high end suites.

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Hotel Savoy

On wide, caf lined Piazza Repubblica, the Savoy is close to canada goose outlet jackets all the sights, and within easy reach of Via Tornabuoni. Curated by Sir Rocco Forte’s interior designer sister, the design is a canada goose uk black friday sapient mix of contemporary artworks (including several large repeat pattern ‘fashion’ canvases canada goose outlet of shoes or hats) and more classical soft furnishings and antiques. The style might be defined as comfortable, contemporary chic. The 88 rooms and 14 suites are in the canada goose outlet online same relaxed modern classic idiom as the communal areas. Bathrooms are done out in Carrara marble with decorative mosaic insets. sits right on the river, a duck’s waddle from the Ponte Vecchio. Michele Bonan’s design scheme combines both elements, the Hemingway hint in the masculine, cigar room dcor of the ground floor lounge and bar, the French touch in the Picasso and Cocteau themed photos in the communal areas and some bedrooms, the prominent fringes on sofas and cushions, and the navy stripes and ruched lampshades that dominate the room dcor. It has been given the gourmet ticket, with grown up white linen restaurant Borgo San Jacopo currently in the capable hands of Peter Brunel, a northern Italian chef of some talent. Nor is it merely food for the eyes: drawing on a tradition that dates back to the Medici, the hotel is deliciously perfumed with fragrances from Florentine parfumier Dr Vranjes. For a splurge, opt for the Pool Suite, a romantic love nest with a heated whirlpool canada goose outlet canada tub on its bijou roof terrace, where you can soak in seraphic views of Florence’s domes and spires.