Grand Hotel Villa Medici

Set in an elegant noble residence from the 18th century, this exclusive 5-star hotel offers high-quality service, suites with spectacular views, and a peaceful garden with outdoor pool.

With Florence train station around 500 metres away and on-site parking available, you can easily explore the many sights of this magnificent city on foot. Within 20 minutes you can reach impressive attractions such as the Duomo, Uffizi Gallery and Ponte Vecchio, as well as the shopping districts.

If you would rather not leave the hotel you can relax or keep fit in the Sina Fitness Club. Later, for some Tuscan cuisine and fine wines, the hotel's Lorenzo de’ Medici restaurant is a great choice. You can also dine in the new Conservatory, set overlooking the pool, before socialising or listening to live music in one of the two bars.

Rooms: 103
Rate: 161.7 - 1033.72 EUR
Hotel chain: Sina Hotels

This fully air-conditioned hotel offers various health and relaxation facilities. As well as the outdoor pool (shaped in a figure 8), you can enjoy the spa facilities or work out on the aerobic and weight machines in the Sina Fitness Club.

If you need any information about visiting Florence, the concierge can offer you advice on the best guided tours, excursions and shops.

For a truly unique meeting experience the hotel offers 2 recently renovated rooftop conference rooms, with views towards the Duomo. A third meeting room is also available, accommodating between 12 and 90 people.

Rooms may feature one king size bed or 2 twin beds. They are provided with a comprehensive set of modern equipments.

Many of the 83 rooms and 17 suites have private walk-in terraces with spectacular views of Florence, of the hotel’s gardens and the swimming pool.

After an extensive renovation, the hotel now boasts 33 rooms in contemporary style, which are intended for more sophisticated guests. The rest of the rooms are in traditional style with antique original furnishings.

A rich American buffet breakfast, complete with home-made pastries, is served from 07:00 to 10:30 in the Sala Caterina or the poolside Conservatory.

For lunch or dinner, you can choose from the Lorenzo de’ Medici restaurant, or the Conservatory which boasts a modern interior and long veranda leading out into the garden and pool. Both of these restaurants are open from 12:00 to 14:30 and then 19:00 to 22:30. In the summer there is also accompanying live music.

The new Jockey American Bar fuses modern and traditional elements and offers an ideal spot for relaxation. It is open from 11:00 to 01:00.

From 19:00 on Tuesday to Saturday the piano bar is a great spot to listen to some live music while enjoying an appetiser, dinner or after-dinner drinks.

Florence is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance. Wandering through its streets you will find monuments reflecting its cultural and artistic achievements of the 15th century, when Florence, along with its eternal rival Siena, became one of the main centres of commerce and banking in Europe.

A climb up to Piazzale Michelangiolo (around 3 km from the hotel) will reward you with an extraordinary panorama of domes, bell-towers, walls, towers and rooftops.

By Air:
Florence Airport is just 5 km away. Pisa Airport is 90 km.

By Train:
Firenze Santa Maria Novella train station is just 500 metres from the hotel.