incl. Breakfast - HRS Rating: /10 - Hotel Grifone is located just 20 min. walking from the ... more
city centre. Rooms are quite,provided with tv sat,minibar,climatization,telephone,private bathroom,hairdryer.Some have fast internet connection. The hotel is loc...
Location. Hotel Grifone is located in Florence, Italy, within two kilometres of the ... more
Church of the Holy Cross, Bargello National Museum and Michelangelo's family home, Buonarotti House. The Florence Amerigo Vespucci International Airport is seven kilom...
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Location. Hotel Grifone is located in Florence, Italy, within two kilometres of the ... more
Church of the Holy Cross, Bargello National Museum and Michelangelo's family home, Buonarotti House. The Florence Amerigo Vespucci International Airport is seven kilom...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Hotel Grifone Florence is a new modern and comfortable hotel located in a residential and ... more
quiet area of Florence just 15 minutes walking from the historical city centre reachable also by public bus transportation n° 14 The Hotel Grifone Florence has...
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Hotel Residence Grifone provides rooms and apartments in a quiet, residential part of ... more
Florence with excellent transport links, 15 minutes’ walk along the River Arno from the city centre.Leave your car in Hotel Grifone’s affordable car park and take a b...
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Advantages: Must-go Italian city Disadvantages: No
In my last trip to Italy, I stayed in Florence for one and a half day. Let me share with you my fantastic experience of Florence.
Florence is the cultural capital in the medieval time, and the key player in the Renaissance movement. A small city it seems, but the home of some of the most famous people in history-Michaelanglo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo etc, just to name a few.
Again with narrow streets and allys, our first stop was a demonstration of leather. Italian/Florentine leather is world famous and shops selling leather cloths and accessories are everywhere. Obviously, I didn't leave without getting some goods myself. After that, we had a walking tour with a local guide.
Best known of all Florence's treasures is the Ponte Vecchio. This glorious bridge was the only one spared by the German attacks in the second World ...
Advantages: Beauty. History, Culture. Good food and wine Disadvantages: Expensive. Crowded with tourists.
When it comes to architectural grandeur and art treasures few cities on earth can stand comparison with Florence - the Tuscan city that pioneered the renaissance in Medieval Europe.It is truly a beautiful city with few equals even in Italy.
Founded by the Romans in the 1st century, Florence did not expand significantly until Carolingian days, but between the 12th and 15th centuries it became the greatest cultural center in Europe; some might suggest it became the hub of the universe, not only producing magnificient architecture and countless art treasures but forming ideas that form the basis of even 20th century thought.
Florence spreads itself along both banks of the River Arno and is surrounded by hills. Anatole France once wrote, "... The God who made the hills of Florence was an artist." It seems the proud people of this ...
Advantages: More art than you can wave a brush at Disadvantages: The crowds...oh, and the crowds
I had read so many guidebooks, online guides and reviews about Florence, that I wasn't sure I actually needed to visit in person. However, since we were in Tuscany anyway, and the hotel we were staying in was a mere 40km distant, I though it would be somewhat amiss not to see the city and all its glories.
Florence is a dream destination for art-lovers - some of the planet's most famous works of art jostle for position in some of the greatest galleries of the world. I'd like to tell you a bit about some of these treasures, but I'm not going to.
Not because I don't want to, but because I can't. I didn't see any!
I'm afraid I wasn't willing to queue in blazing sunshine and temperatures in the mid-30's just to see some old paintings. Call me uncouth and uncultured if you will, just don't call me at 3am!
So, if you're looking ...
