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| Hotel Cellai |
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| Florence - Florence city - Florence |
| City Break |
| Number of rooms: 55 |
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Florence hotels tend to fall into one of two categories. They are either overwhelming impersonal and sterile or seem designed for backpacking students on exam leave. We liked the Hotel Cellai because it stands out from the norm! A few of the reasons it made an impression were:
* It´s location in an authentic, historic quarter of Florence, with plenty of traditional restaurants close by, frequented by real Fiorentini means you have a genuine insight into the city.
* The central market is just 200 yards away and is lots of fun to explore and includes excellent fresh Tuscan produce and streets full of bargaining opportunities is just 200 yards away.
* The prices. For a hotel in Florence these are really very reasonable. For a hotel that’s really cute, has individually decorated rooms, lots and lots of paintings and original and artistic furniture, they are excellent.
* It has a superb roof terrace with views all over the city!
* Lots of lounges and places to curl up and read in front of the fire.
* Courtesy bicycles to go exploring the city (much of Florence historic centre is closed to motorized vehicles making this easier than it sounds!)
* You can walk everywhere! Michelangelo’s David is safely housed in the Accademia museum, just five minutes from the hotel, the Cathedral with Brunelleschi’s dome 15 minutes and the Uffizi Gallery and Ponte Vecchio a 20 minute stroll through the beautiful streets of Florence.
Remember though, this is a historic building so some of the rooms will be smaller than those in soulless, purpose built hotels. If, by “added features”, you understand a hotel that feels like home with comfy chairs and chaises longues, cosy decoration, beautiful artwork and tonnes of personality rather than a flat-screen TV and DVD player in each of the rooms then the Hotel Cellai is the place for you!
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If you are coming to Florence then you already know why and what you want to see. So, after the history and the beautiful, historic buildings and Botticelli and Michelangelo, Brunelleschi and Giotto try one of the following.
An ice-cream at Vivoli, Via Isola delle Stinche, number 7. It’s incredible and the best, I think, in the whole of North Italy. (Rome, let’s face it has quite a few establishments that could rival it – try the Tartufo at I Trè Scalini in Piazza Navona for one). While you’re there and revelling in the delights of your shockingly rich chocolate or the superb pistachio, turn to your right as you leave Vivoli and walk 50 yards down the street. Look up and to the right in the alleyway in front of you and you will notice a plaque on the wall indicating that this was Michelangelo’s house!
The Boboli Gardens, on the other side of the River Arno, provide a wonderful place to walk and wander. Lots of benches to take a seat and relax. Views from the top of the gardens are spectacular over all of the city and behind to the hills that circle Florence with their cypresses and ambers and yellows of Tuscany.
Brunelleschi’s less well known church of Santo Spirito (simple but beautiful lines it seems almost Mexican in design) in the piazza of the same name. Close to the Boboli Gardens and a great spot for an aperativo or a late night drink with Florence’s sophisticated younger crowd.
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Florence is not great for cars as the city government imposes very strict regulations to try and preserve the city’s streets which, let’s face it, were never built for 21st century traffic. There is a private garage just around the corner from the hotel at 23 Euros per day or alternatively a municipal parking area for 12 Euros per day. A little further afield you can find free parking along the streets though this area is a five minutes walk from the hotel and you need to compete with the locals to find one of the sought after spaces!
Alternatively if arriving by train, things are a little easier. Whilst the main train station (Santa Maria Novella) is close to the hotel (a 10 minutes walk) you probably have bags so hop in one of the taxis that wait outside the station (use the left hand exit) and let them whisk you off to the hotel. If you want to go by foot then walk away from the station into the piazza and turn left into Via Nazionale. Via 27 Aprile, where the hotel is located, is on the right hand side, approximately 5 minutes along Via Nazionale.
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