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TOURIST
HOUSE GHIBERTI B&B
Address: via Bufalini 1, Florence - near Duomo Square
It's
a family run B&B offering high category accommodation in the
centre of Florence, just behind the Duomo's square, a short walking
distance from the main museums and monuments of the city. With their
previous work experience in some of the greatest hotels in Florence
and their Italian/French origin, Claudio & Christelle have created
a really unique place whose philosophy is that of keeping their
guests in a peaceful atmosphere. The house, decorated retaining
the proper Florentine style, is enriched by the many paintings by
a Tuscan artist and the individually hand made mosaics.
Their B&B offers 5 double rooms, spacious, quiet and with modern
comforts and technology. For your best stay there is at disposition
a Sauna and a large Jacuzzi (for 4 people) where you can relax after
your tour in Florence...
Every morning a rich buffet is served for breakfast in a room that
opens onto a sunny terrace.
Each room is equipped with private bathroom, hairdryer, air conditioning,
direct phone, fax with direct sending and receiving, satellite-TV,
mini-bar, electronic safe. In all the rooms there is a computer
with free internet access, connected to a printer in the reception
area and upon request a CD and a floppy disk player.
The owners of the Tourist House Ghiberti, with their experience,
will carefully assist you during your whole stay, suggesting nice
restaurants and making reservations, booking for you museums, private
guide, pleased to help you with any information you need.
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PRICES
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ROOMS |
Low
Season |
Medium
Season |
High
Season |
| DOUBLE
Single Use |
90 |
100 |
135 |
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DOUBLE
2 people |
110 |
120 |
155 |
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TRIPLE
3 people |
140 |
150 |
185 |
All
rates are in EURO, per room, per night and including VAT
tax and service charge. To convert currency
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Personal Currency Assistant
Rates include: Breakfast ·Taxes · Service
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SPECIAL
OFFER ! |
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days:
18 - 19 AUG |
days:
4 -5 -6 SEPT |
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DOUBLE-Single
Use
DOUBLE
TRIPLE |
80
100
130 |
110
130
160 |
SERVICES
- Private Bathrooms
- Air conditioning
- TV SAT
- Hair dryers
- Safe
- Direct
telephone
- FAX
with direct sending/receiving
- PC
in each room with free internet access
Prices
of the rooms include use of:
Sauna - Jacuzzi whirlpool bath
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LOCATION
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the Florence map to enlarge it
Distance on foot:
- 2 minutes to Duomo's Square
- 13 minutes to Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio
- 13 minutes to Uffizi Gallery and Ponte Vecchio
- 17 minutes to Pitti Palace
- 15 minutes to Railway Station Santa Maria Novella
- 8 minutes to Medici Chapels and San Lorenzo
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8 minutes to Accademia
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Duomo
or Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore: the task of building the
Duomo, on the site of the old church S. Reparata, was entrusted to Arnolfo
di Cambio, in the year 1296. Following his death (1302), Giotto
was appointed to the supervise building work but he devoted himself mainly
to the Campanile. Later in 1357 Francesco Talenti and
Giovanni di Lapo Ghini continued work on the Duomo of
Florence enlarging the original Arnolfo's design. 
Giotto's
Campanile (bell-tower): interesting example of the gothic architecture
in Italy, it's an imposing marble tower on square plan closed by octagonal
pilasters at the corners. Build next to the Florence Duomo, on the original
design by Giotto, was begun in 1334 by the artist and
then continued by his successor, Andrea Pisano, who completed
the original structure with the bas-relief panels. The building was completed
by Francesco Talenti in 1359 with the upper storeys,
the gothic windows and the terrace. 
Baptistery:
dedicated to St. John the Baptist patron saint of Florence, was construcetd
in the course of the XI-XIII centuries on a site of a Roman-age edifice,
domus. The building has an octagonal plane, which simbolizes the religious
ritual of baptism, and is faced in polychrome marbles the geometrical
arrangement of which is inspired by the classic Roman antiquity. The Baptistery
is enriched with three splendid bronze doors, the first one, the South
Door, was made by Andrea Pisano in 1330-1336, the other
two are the work of Lorenzo Ghiberti, the North Door
(1403-1424), and the famous East Door described by Michelangelo as the
Gate of Paradise (1425-1452). 
