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TOP HOTELS in
FLORENCE, ITALY
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Grande
Hotel Adriatico
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Hotel Adriatico is a modern
six storey hotel built in
the 1960s with a garden
courtyard and on site parking.
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Hotel
Donatello
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The
Hotel Donatello is a nineteenth
century Florentine townhouse situated
in a quiet leafy square in the
centre of the city, 800 metres
from the Cathedral. cost valacyclovir without insurance
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Greater
Florence now spreads several kilometres
down the Arno Valley and onto the hills
north and south of the city, but the major
sights are contained in an area that can
be crossed on foot in under thirty minutes.
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A
short walk southeast from the train station brings
you to Piazza del Duomo, site of the Duomo itself
and the neighbouring Baptistry. The
compact district from here south to the river is
the inner core, the area into which most of the
tourists are packed.This area boasts the best-preserved
medieval parts of Florence and the majority of its
fashionable streets. Just
south of the duomo is Florence's outstanding sculpture
gallery, the Bargello . The large Piazza della Signoria
, some 300m south of the Duomo, is overlooked by
the Palazzo Vecchio and the famous picture gallery
of the Uffizi. West of the Duomo, and backing onto
the train station, is the unmissable church of Santa
Maria Novella. Immediately north of the duomo is
the grand church of San Lorenzo , at the heart of
a throng of market stalls around the covered Mercato
Centrale. Clustered together just northeast of San
Lorenzo are the monastery of San Marco, with its
paintings by Fra' Angelico; the Accademia, home
of Michelangelo's David; and Piazza Santissima Annunziata,
Florence's most attractive square. The
main attraction in the eastern quarters of the city
centre is the vast Franciscan church of Santa Croce
. South of the river - preferably via the medieval
Ponte Vecchio, which is still picturesquely lined
with shops perched over the water - lies the Oltrarno
district, where the array of museums within the
Palazzo Pitti exerts the strongest pull, and the
church of Santo Spirito stands at the focus of a
lively student quarter.
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Overlooking the city from the south is the
lavish hilltop church of San Miniato al Monte.
Florentine nightlife has a reputation for
catering primarily to the middle-aged and
affluent, but like every university town it
has its pockets of activity, and by hanging
around the San Marco or Santo Spirito quarters
you should pick up news of any impromptu events.
The city's sizeable population of British
and American students ensures a supply of
English-language films, and the highbrow cultural
calendar is filled out with seasons of classical
music, opera and dance to rival the best in
Europe.
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