The Place Firenze
When you book The Place Firenze in Florence, Italy, through our Virtuoso partnership, your stay includes daily breakfast for up to two guests and a $100 USD food and beverage credit. You also receive a room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available. No premium credit card or membership needed: request a quote and our advisor books it at the same rate as booking direct.
Exclusive Booking Perks
These perks are included with your stay at the same rate as booking direct with the hotel.
- Upgrade on arrival, subject to availability
- Daily Breakfast for up to two guests per bedroom, served in the restaurant and via in-room dining (already included in property rates)
- $100 USD equivalent Food & Beverage credit to be utilized during stay (not combinable, not valid on room rate, no cash value if not redeemed in full)
- Early Check-In / Late Check-Out, subject to availability
Guest feedback
9.3/10 from 229 guest reviews
By category
Guests liked
- Attentive staff
- Beautiful decor
- Great food
Points to consider
- Room size could vary
- Slight concerns on value for money
Location
The property sits in San Frediano, the Oltrarno neighbourhood where Florence sheds its polished tourist veneer and settles into something closer to lived-in grace. This is where artisans still hammer leather in cramped workshops, where trattorias serve ribollita to locals who've been coming for decades, and where the Porta San Frediano, the medieval gate that once opened the road to Pisa, still marks the western edge of the old city. The streets here are narrower, quieter, punctuated by the occasional bell tower and the low murmur of Florentine dialect drifting from doorways.
Cross the Arno and you're half a kilometre from the UNESCO-inscribed Historic Centre, where the Renaissance built its monument to itself in marble and fresco. The Duomo's terracotta dome rises over rooftops to the east. The Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens sprawl to the south. San Frediano itself resists that grandeur, preferring the everyday rhythm of neighbourhood bars and small piazzas where children kick footballs against stone walls.
Florence Airport, Peretola, is five kilometres north, a quick taxi ride through suburbs that give way to the medieval walls. Pisa International is seventy kilometres west if you're arriving from farther afield.
Start with Luca's by Paulo Airaudo, four hundred metres from the hotel. This one-Michelin-starred dining room at Hotel La Gemma wraps itself in green boiserie and serves contemporary plates that reinterpret Tuscan ingredients with precision. For a longer evening, book Enoteca Pinchiorri, one kilometre east on Via Ghibellina. The three-starred flagship occupies a 17th-century palazzo and pairs Italian contemporary cuisine with a wine cellar that commands pilgrimages of its own. Closer to the property, the Mercato del Porcellino and the Mercato di San Lorenzo, both half a kilometre away, offer daily stalls heaped with porcini, pecorino, lampredotto. The leather market near the Loggia del Porcellino remains a working hub for bags and gloves, not yet entirely surrendered to tourist stalls.
The Uffizi Gallery and the Galleria dell'Accademia (housing Michelangelo's David) require advance booking but reward the effort with encounters that justify Florence's place in the Western canon. Walk south to the Boboli Gardens for gravel paths and Renaissance statuary under stone pines. The Bardini Gardens, less crowded, climb the hillside with panoramic terraces over the city's terracotta roofscape. Arnolfo, 40 kilometres south in Colle di Val d'Elsa, holds two Michelin stars and offers a modern glass-and-iron structure with views across the Tuscan countryside.
July and August bring heat that settles over the terracotta rooftops and bakes the stone streets into a slow haze. Temperatures push past thirty degrees Celsius, and the city empties as Florentines flee to the coast. The light is sharp, almost metallic.
Spring and autumn are gentler. April through June, the air softens, the gardens green, and the terraces fill again. September and October carry the same clarity, though rain arrives more often as the season turns. October especially can surprise with downpours that send tourists scrambling under arcade awnings.
Winter is quiet, cool but rarely harsh. January mornings can dip just above freezing, and mist clings to the Arno at dawn. The museums are less crowded, the churches cold and echoing. It's the season for ribollita and long walks through empty streets.
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