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Santa Croce: A Lively Neighborhood in Florence

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…

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A Roof with a View, take a pic and win a holiday in Florence!

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…

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Florence is the Favorite Travel Destination in Europe

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…

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An Agriturismo in the Center of Florence?

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? 🙂…

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The Duomo of Florence replaced by Montefiascone Cathedral!

April 30, 2012

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…

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