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FIRENZE (FLORENCE) FIRENZE (FLORENCE)

Excelsior Florence’s grandest hotel is made from Morandi alla Crocetta This house just behind
two 19th-century houses that stand next to the the archaeological museum was a brothel
River Arno. Its fabulous interiors abound in oil in Medici times, and subsequently a convent.
paintings, marble staircases, statues and stained The Antuono family has lived here since the
glass windows. The rooms are spacious and 1920s, and now runs the first-rate hotel. There are
old-fashioned in style; many have good views many special touches, from frescoed rooms to
over the river. Close to the train station. phones in the bathrooms.
N Piazza d’Ognissanti 1, 50123 Firenze. Map p335 D5. N Via Laura 50, 50121 Firenze. Map p335 D5.
§ 055 28 87 81. ` 055 21 74 00. $ grandflorence@ § 055 234 47 47. ` 055 248 09 54.
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FIRENZE (FLORENCE) FIRENZE (FLORENCE)

Loggiato dei Serviti This vaulted hotel is airy Porta Rossa Italy’s second oldest hotel, dating
and calm, and is set in a traffic-free square by the from 1386, is a purposeful, bustling and civilized
Ospedale degli Innocenti. The decoration is spare place. Leather couches and stained glass decorate
and elegant, with carved wooden bedheads and a the vaulted reception area. Bedrooms are
few well-chosen pieces of furniture. The place is comparatively plain but are large; it’s worth
popular with visiting art historians so book well asking for the tower suite with its views over
in advance. Breakfast is very good. town. Best of all is the hotel’s central location,
N Piazza della SS Annunziata 3, 50122 Firenze. close to Piazza della Signoria.
Map p335 D5. § 055 28 95 92. ` 055 28 95 95. N Via Porta Rossa 19, 50123 Firenze. Map p335 D5.
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MASSA E COZZILE MONTEFOLLONICO
Villa Pasquini Once the retreat of an aristocratic La Chiusa The restaurant, an old olive oil mill, is
family, little has changed since the 19th-century. the centrepiece, but great care has been given to
N Via Vacchereccia 56, Margine Coperta, 51010 Massa e the bedrooms and suites. Superb bathrooms.
Cozzile, Pistoia. Map p335 D5. § 0572 722 05. N Via della Madonnina 88, 53040 Montefollonico, Siena.
` 0572 91 08 88. $ info@villapasquini.com 0 b,d. Map p336 B1. § 0577 66 96 68. ` 0577 66 95 93.
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MONTE CASTELLO DI VIBIO MONTERIGGIONI
Fattoria di Vibio All is effortless simplicity and Borgo San Luigi Farmhouse country hotel in
relaxed elegance at this 18th-century farmhouse. vast, lush grounds. Copious buffets, pool, tennis.
N Località Buchella-Doglio 9, 06057 Monte Castello di N Località Strove, Via della Cerreta 7, 53035
Vibio, Perugia. Map p336 C2. § 075 874 96 07. Monterriggioni, Siena. Map p335 D5, p336 B1.
` 075 878 0014. $ info@fattoriadivibio.com § 0577 30 10 55. ` 0577 30 11 67. $ info@
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