
Luxury Vacations in Florence
Soft-focus Florence is a labor of love. The incomparable Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore – known simply as the Duomo – took 142 years to build, while two masters toiled for seven years to complete its remarkable Last Judgement fresco. Art, architecture, history and food are inextricable in Tuscany’s creative capital, where Italian haute couture was born and 16th-century nobility invented buchette del vino, holes-in-the-wall serving wine by the glass that still operate today.
See the work of Renaissance giants – Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio – in the Uffizi, Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Gallery. Witness the legacy of the Medici family, whose patronage was instrumental in sparking the Renaissance and shaping the art and architecture that define Florence today. Savor the cuisine at the legendary Ristorante Cibrèo and marvel at the Ferragamo Museum’s 10,000 pairs of shoes, displayed across five stories of a medieval castle. Sip martinis in the Piazza della Repubblica, drift off to views of the Duomo from your blissful rooms in a historic palace, and slip away to the surrounding countryside of rural, romantic Tuscany.
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