Florence 5-Star Hotels

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ABOVE: Terrace of the Grand Hotel Villa Medici with a view of Florence's Baptistry and Duomo.

Excelsior
The Westin Excelsior overlooks the Arno from the Piazza d'Ognissanti, several bridges away from the Uffizi Gallery. The 168-room hotel is popular with upscale American business and leisure travelers, and it recently earned a spot on Condé Nast Traveler's Gold List.

Grand Hotel
This Condé Nast Traveler's Gold List award winner faces the River Arno. The Renaissance-style palazzo is awash in luxurious touches such as marble floors, a stained-glass ceiling in the lobby, and elaborately decorated guest rooms that have entertained the rich and famous and the merely rich.

Regency
This converted mansion is something of a boutique hotel: It has only 35 rooms and an English decorating scheme with plenty of antiques and dark wood paneling. The hotel is located in a residential district, 10 minutes from the city center on foot. See guest comments.

Villa Medici
The Grand Hotel Villa Medici is affiliated with the prestigious Leading Hotels of the World group, but it isn't a chain property: It's a distinctive hotel in an 18th Century palazzo between the Santa Maria Novella railroad station and the Arno. Amenities include a swimming pool, fitness club, and sauna.

Villa San Michele
This member of the Orient-Express chain is in the hills of Fiesole, 15 minutes by cab from Florence's main railroad station. The hotel occupies a former monastery where the chapel is now the lobby and an arcaded courtyard has been turned into a restaurant. A scheduled shuttle runs between the hotel and the city. (This site requires the Flash plug-in and will open in a new browser window.)

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