| Overview/Description |
Set in Piazza Ognissanti on the banks of the River Arno, The Westin Excelsior is 10 minutes' walk from Ponte Vecchio. It offers luxurious rooms with wood floors and marble bathrooms.
Your room is spacious and elegant with Florentine furniture and a warm colour scheme. All air-conditioned, rooms also feature a minibar, bathrobe and slippers. They all have a 32" plasma-screen TV and a Multimedia Quadriga System with multilingual programme selection and a digital jukebox.
A large buffet breakfast is available each morning, while the award-winning chef prepared contemporary Mediterranean cuisine at ORVM Restaurant at dinner.
The 5-star Westin Excelsior is 500 metres from Santa Maria Novella Train Station and around 10 minutes on foot from Florence Cathedral. It is surrounded by some of the city's most popular restaurants and designer shops.
The Arno River has long since played its role in driving the trade and industry which forged the golden age of Florence but it retains its appeal as a major city landmark. One side of the river is banked by the stunning Palazzo Pitti and on the other the historic core of a city where the masters of the renaissance created their greatest works. All this and spanned by one of the most famous bridges in the world, the Ponte Vecchio, suggests that anywhere by the river would be the perfect place to begin a Florentine tour of discovery. Just as well then that on the south bank of the river, at the start of the historic centre, is situated one of the very finest hotels in the city, the Westin Excelsior.
A stunning building on the Piazza Ognissanti, the hotel evokes all the style, sophistication and grandeur of its locale, set within the city's high-class fashion district. There are high fashion houses, there are international embassies and comfortable among them is the Westin Excelsior, a hotel where the rich and famous come to play and anyone can use as the perfect base for exploring the city. Not only is the best of Florence within easy reach, but the best of Florentine style and Tuscan hospitality awaits on return.
Head south across the Ponte Vecchio for the Palazzo Pitti and beyond that the superb city green space which is the Boboli Gardens. Set a course north for the greatest riches in art and architectural history, typified by such world class attractions as the Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery, and the Galleria del Accademia, home of Michelangelo's David. Florence is a city which gives up its considerable charms easily and the same is true of the Westin Excelsior, a perfect match therefore for an unforgettable stay. |
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