a bedroom in a Hotel degli Orafi apartment
	Florence is full of art treasures beyond the most famous ones.
	Major sights in Florence are only steps away from the hotel
	The Ponte Vecchio is virtually just out the front door.

Discretion And Comfort In The Most Convenient Location

Barely noticeable from outside its privileged location directly on the riverfront Lungarno and only two blocks from the Piazza della Signoria, the discreet Hotel degli Orafi keeps a low profile in a city where high-profile art steals the spotlight.  No matter. The hotel does just fine, thank you, welcoming guests to an establishment that offers the rare contemporary ambience in a city where history pervades nearly every hotel.  Hotel degli Orafi appeals to all aesthetic senses by offering period decoration in its main building and modern style in its tower, which is not a glass and steel skyscraper but rather an ancient tower restored to serve the needs of modern-day hotel guests; the tower is attached to the main building.  If Hotel degli Orafi seems vaguely familiar, the hotel served as the location for filming the fictional Pensione Bertolini in the 1985 film A Room With A View.  One glance of the beautiful dome of Florence's famous cathedral from Hotel degli Orafi's rooftop terrace will engender a warm feeling for romantic cinema fans who now have the view from the film's climactic love scene right in front of them.  The room in which Helena Bonham Carter's Lucy Honeychurch and Maggie Smith's Cousin Charlotte stayed is available for guests wishing to follow in the footsteps of the ladies from the movie.

Hotel rooms in Italy can be on the small side, but thankfully Hotel degli Orafi keeps with the modern preference for more space by offering apartment-sized suites in addition to its rooms.  The fully self-contained suites are very much a rarity, as few hotels in Italy offer the option of a private kitchen.  For families or friends travelling together, a two-bedroom apartment is available and makes a perfect base for exploring the many wonderful sights in the city of Florence and in its vicinity; a tour with Through Eternity will take visitors in groups or in private to see top sights like Michelangelo's David and the masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery, or perhaps to less explored corners of the city where more art treasures lay waiting to be visited.  Through Eternity guides also know how to find the best gelato shops.

Hotel degli Orafi (which means 'hotel of the goldsmiths' in Italian) is named for its proximity to another of Florence's most famous sights, the Ponte Vecchio bridge that is home to many jewellery shops, including the fabled Italian company Buccellati.  Less famous but no less appealing are the wonderful leather products of the small boutique Io, where the art of leather long practiced in Florence is taken to extremes in the form of leather-bound books made to order, though more extraordinary would be a leather-clad grand piano.

Hotel degli Orafi
Lungarno Archibusieri 4
50121 Florence
tel:  +39 055 26622
hoteldegliorafi.it