By admin on August 31, 2012
Florence is divided into 4 historical neighborhoods: Santa Croce, San Giovanni, Santa Maria Novella and Santo Spirito. Each quarter takes the name from a place of worship located within its area.
Today we’d like to present the Santa Croce area in Florence, found along the eastern end of Florence’s historical center and running along the right bank of the Tuscan river Arno. It’s a great area to explore and visit with its churches, markets, numerous restaurants, nightlife and shops.
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By admin on August 23, 2012
Last year’s edition was a great success so this summer it’s back!
The cool initiative called “A roof with a view” is back this summer, including the photographic contest to to win a trip back to Florence! The most beautiful terraces of hotels and restaurants in Florence open their doors to the public until September 30, 2012 offering breathtaking cityscapes: those who will be able to catch the best panorama win a holiday back in Florence.
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By Cristina on July 12, 2012
The popular U.S. magazine Travel and Leisure conducts an annual survey among its readers to identify the world’s best travel destinations.
This year over 80000 magazine readers replied to the poll and finally few days ago, the top 10 destinations in the the world was revealed.
Florence came in second place worldwide, preceded only by Bangkok, therefore making it the best city destination in Europe, before other popular cities such as Istanbul (3rd position), Rome (6th) and even Paris (tenth placement).
How can we not be proud of this accomplishment?! 
It’s not clear if who participated in the survey has already seen Florence or still in the planning stages to come visit. What is certain is that the famous “cradle of the Renaissance” is ready to welcome everyone for a really unforgettable stay.
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By admin on July 3, 2012
Florence can be considered a huge open air museum with no entry fee, where you don’t always have to purchase a ticket to enjoy the artistic masterpieces of the great Masters of the past and priceless works. All you need to do is just around to be impressed by the beauty of the city and its richness.
Florence offers a large artistic and cultural panorama with many museums, squares, gardens, buildings, streets which should be present in your itinerary discovering one of the most beautiful Renaissance city in the world. But generally your time is limited, right? And you can’t visit everything you’d like to in the few days you do have…. so we’ve made a list of the definite “must-sees” in Florence! Include these in your visit to make the most of few days you do have in this splendid Renaissance city !
1. Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria is set a few meters from the Piazza Duomo and Ponte Vecchio (the “Old Bridge”). Here you will be able to admire the impressive Palazzo Vecchio with its Torre di Arnolfo lately open again to the public to allow guests to enjoy a wonderful cityscape. To the right, enjoy the statues housed under the Loggia del Lanzi and the Uffizi Gallery (if you have time, we recommend giving at least 2 hours to the museum).
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By admin on May 8, 2012
One of the most popular searches on FlorenceAccommodation.com, and also on Google, seems to be farmhouse in florence center. We imagine that anyone doing this search is actually thinking of a farmhouse farmhouses near to the center of Florence, looking in fact for something in the countryside, otherwise what type offarmhouse would it be?
At the same time, the thought takes up back to the times when Dante walked around the city, when the city was much smaller that now and farms were located just outside the city walls and the main monuments were really just a few steps away from the woods and you could get fresh air as soon as you left the city walls. Today’sagriturismo, however, were born much much later. 
Today, to find the first actual working farm estates near the city, you need to go look a thte area of Scandicci, or toward the boundaries of the Florentine Chianti area, in the vicinity of Pontassieve or in Fiesole. You can also consider all of the accommodations in the area around Florence up to arrive to Mugello seeing as it is easy to reach with public transportation as well as by car and be able to enjoy the calm serenity and authentic Florentine countryside without being too far from the historical center of the city.
How cool to imagine the countryside right in the center of Florence! (Photo by Maria Lumbreras Arcos)
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By admin on April 30, 2012
Google Maps: showing the Duomo of Montefiascone instead of the Duomo of Florence
We’ve been receiving calls from some of our visitors saying that the maps across our websites, in particular in pages such as
http://www.florenceaccommodation.com/florence-historical-center/, that the Duomo of Florence is showing up labeled as the Montefiascone Cathedral and can we fix it…? We are here to reassure everyone: we checked this morning and our very own Duomo of Florence is still sitting in its rightful spot, more imposing than ever
The beautiful Basilica of Santa Margherita, or Montefiascone cathedral is still in Montefiascone, even if its transfer to Florence would have been a great occasion to visit it. It seems that Google Maps at the moment is convinced that the cathedral of Montefiascone took over the place of Florence’s cathedral, and all maps (including those on websites such as ours that use Google’s great map service) are currently showing this curious error. It also seems that this mistake is only showing up on the internationl version of Google Maps: search for “Florence Italy” to see it yourself. On the Italian version of Google Maps the Florence Duomo is right where it should be.
We’re sure this is a short-lived blimp of the Google Maps service and that our beloved Florence Duomo will soon return to its rightful spot for international visitors. In the meantime, you can rest assured that you can continue to book your room with a view over Florence’s famous Duomo
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