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Apartment |2 bedrooms |Sleeps 4

Central Florence in Florence

from £122 / night

£848 / week

2 nights minimum stay

Changeover flexible

4.5 out of 5

2 reviews | Write a review

Key info  Air conditioning, car not necessary, no pets allowed

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About the home

The apartment consists in living-room with sofa, complete kitchen, bathroom with shower, a bedroom with a king sized bed and a loft bedroom with two twin single beds.

Located in a pedestrian area of Florence with shops, restaurants and museums around, at the third floor without lift of an old Florentine palace. At the ground floor there is one of the oldest restaurants in Florence.

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The Tuscany / Firenze Province region

It is impossible to divorce Tuscany from one's preconceptions. A row of cypress trees breaking the blue sky on a rolling hilltop. Olive groves and grapevines marching tidily down the side of a slope. Small medieval hill towns gazing down upon a country that has been carefully cultivated since Roman times. It has been said indeed, that rather than take a photo of the modern landscape, you can gaze into a painting by Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael or Piero della Francesca. Much of the scenery is simply unchanged in 500 years.

Where to start with Tuscany? We have the 'art cities' of Florence, Pisa and Siena - the galleries and museums, devotional buildings and architecture of Florence (Firenze) alone could swallow your entire holiday in Tuscany. Another week would just about deal with Pisa and its Campo dei Miracoli around the Leaning Tower and Baptistery. There is also the lesser known Lucca, a perfect medieval city within its unbreached medieval walls. But let's take a few other highlights without which no tour of Tuscany is complete.

Siena is a superb medieval city, which depopulated a few hundred years ago as a result of the Black Death and never quite filled up again. Indeed parts of this opulent and stylish town, around the stunning black-and-white marble Duomo, retain a semi-rural air. Cobbled streets spiral towards the central 'Campo' site of the twice yearly Palio horse race. There are dozens of little hill towns towards the south and west of Siena, with San Gimignano (the city of towers) being best known. Montepulciano, Cortona and Pienza are joys, but also see lesser-explored Pitigliano, Massa Marittima and Volterra.

Between Florence and Siena you have Chianti, superb wine country of course and a popular retreat for British and American expatriots. The main towns of 'Chiantishire' are Greve and Radda in Chianti. See too the medieval cloth town of Prato, with the Castello Imperator and a fine Pisan-Romanesque Duomo. Another undiscovered gem is Pistoia, with a well preserved medieval core. Heading towards the coast we have Pisa, Lucca and then the coastline of the Versilian Riviera. The most famous of the local resorts is Viareggio, a fashionable resort in Victorian times, and still a fun seaside town, with great gelaterie, restaurants, beaches (though you will have to pay) and the huge February carnival. Livorno (or Leghorn as Brits dubbed it) is often dismissed as a bombed and uninspiringly rebuilt port town, but there is a lovely old town of canals and humpback bridges, a 'little Venice' indeed. Offshore we have the isle of Elba, once home to a defeated Napoleon.

The southern Tuscan coast becomes Maremma, once a malaria-ridden backwater but now home to the famed Maremma cattle and the 'butteri', cowboys who tend them. The countryside rises to the hills of Monte Argentario and the rather lovely and ancient town of Orbetello. South of Siena we come to the remarkable San Gimignano, a small town that became a powerful republic, albeit briefly. The soaring towers are monuments to the pride and hubris of the warring families of this town. Volterra is something quite other - built remote and striking on a high plateau, DH Lawrence wrote that it 'gets all the wind and sees all the world ... an inland island'. Thence on to Massa Marittima, an important mining town since pre-Roman (Etruscan) times. And south of Siena spreads the countryside of the Crete Senese ... which is probably that Tuscan countryside that most of us first-time visitors picture in our minds.

We can't leave southern Tuscany without visiting the Abbazia dei San Galgano, one of Italy's most stunning Gothic buildings, and the Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, with its superb Renaissance frescoes. On to Montepulciano, at 600 metres above the sea it's the highest hill town in Tuscany. Then to Pienza, a Renaissance new town created from scratch by Pius II in 1459. Another lovely hill town nearby is Montalcino - wine buffs will know the name.

Eastern Tuscany's main towns are Arezzo - a beautiful Etruscan, Roman and medieval city, and the home and inspiration of movie clown Roberto Benigni (much of 'La Vita e Bella' was filmed here). Finally on to Cortona, from whose heights you gaze down upon Lake Trasimeno. The town has the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, a fine Duomo and the Museo Diocesano.

The Florence / Central Florence area

Florence city centre and the city of Florence
When we say that an apartment is centrally located this means that it is situated inside the area of the ancient walls surrounding the city.
The centre of Florence is divided into two parts by the Arno river.

The neighbourhoods of San Lorenzo, lie to the north, and are the most centrally located. The San Giovanni quarter, where you find the Duomo, the Baptistry and Palazzo Vecchio you might call the heart of the city center.

The principal museums and churches of Florence are located both to the south and to the north of the river.

In the centre of the city you will find houses dating back to Medieval, Renaissance, Neoclassical and early 19th Century times, but never modern homes.

When, on the other hand, we say that an apartment if located in the city of Florence this means that it is outside the ring of roads circling the city where once there stood the last city walls, destroyed in the middle of the 1800's.

How to get there

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Fly directly into Florence - We are connected with the main airports in Europe
Local buses run regularly between the airport and the town with an only 25 min drive.

There are always local taxis available - fare should be no more than 20 euros.

Ask for your personal pick up at the airport, a nice way how to start your journey in Florence

Activities near Florence

Reviews

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28 Apr 2013

“Quiet Apartment Steps Away from The Duomo and San Lorenzo Church” We just returned from a week long stay in the Alberti apartment. It was exactly as pictured on the website and steps away from the Duomo on the busy pedestrian Borgo San Lorenzo. There are 70 steps... more

08 Oct 2012

“Beautiful apartment in the heart of Florence” We were so fortunate to find this apartment in Florence. We travelled with two teenagers. The Alberti apartment provides the space, privacy and amenities we were looking for. There are 70 stairs... more

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Rental prices

Prices for group size 4
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	31 Mar 13	1 Jan 14	993€ 993	183€ 183	183€ 183	2 Nights

The property does not have weekend tariffs.

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

The prices are all inclusive

(Taxes, final cleaning, A/C or heating, )

Payment: 30% on reservation, the balance at the arrival.

No deposit is required.

Credit Cards: VISA & MASTERCARDis accepted.

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