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PALAZZO
GAMBA APARTMENTS
Address: via Martelli 2, Florence - Duomo Square
This
exclusive residence is a noble palace situated in Duomo Square in
the centre of Florence and offers luxury apartments and suite, spread
out in seven floor with elevator, all with an incomparable view
dominating the Brunelleschi's dome and the Duomo. By walking, in
a few minutes you reach everything... all the artistic spots in
Florence, museums and monuments, as well as restaurants and shopping
streets.
All the apartments (new opened in August 2003) have been restored
in the same elegant florentine style, with all modern comforts.
Some of them have fresco in the wall. The apartments have different
composition providing accommodation from 2 to 6 people, and contain
fully equipped kitchenettes (kitchen in the Suite), refrigerator,
oven and dishwasher, satellite TV, direct dial telephones, video
intercom, air conditioning and heating, hair dryers and safe. Each
bedroom has private bathroom.
Services include a multilingual personnel at the reception desk
(h 8-21), daily chamber-maid service and a private garage (upon
request).
ACCOMODATION
ONE
BED ROOMED APARTMENTS
2/3 people - 2/4 people |
One
bedroom, living room with kitchenette and bathroom.
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TWO
BED ROOMED APARTMENTS
4/6 people |
Two double bedrooms, living room with kitchenette and bathrooms.
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PENT-HOUSE
SUITE
maximum 6 people |
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Three double bedrooms, kitchen, living room with open fire place,
2 bathrooms (one with Jacuzzi tub) and two terraces with incomparable
views over the Duomo and the city. |
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PRICES
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APARTMENTS |
Low
Season
Nov
- Dec
Jan - Feb - Mar
16-31 Jul - Aug |
High
Season
Apr
- May - Jun
1-15 Jul
Sept - Oct
Fairs, Festivities |
2005 |
2005 |
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BED ROOMED
(2/3 - 2/4 people) |
150 |
200 |
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TWO BED ROOMED
(4/6 people) |
200 |
250 |
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PENT-HOUSE SUITE
(max 6 people) |
350 |
400 |
All
rates are in EURO, per apartment, per night and including
VAT tax and service charge. To convert currency
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Rates include: Taxes · Service
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CHECK IN: 14.30 - 19.30 |
SERVICES
- Private Bathrooms with shower (Jacuzzi
tub in the Suite)
- Fully equipped kitchen
- Refrigerator, owen, dishwasher
- Air conditioning / Heating
- TV SAT
- Hair dryers
- Safe
- Direct
telephone
Chamber-maid
services every 3 days.
Daily reception service
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LOCATION
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the Florence map to enlarge it
Distance on foot:
- in front of Duomo's Square
- 6 minutes to Piazza della Signoria
- 10 minutes to Uffizi Gallery and Ponte Vecchio
- 15 minutes to Pitti Palace
- 8 minutes to Railway Station Santa Maria Novella
- 5 minutes to Medici Chapels and San Lorenzo
- 20 minutes to Fortezza da Basso Congress Center |
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). 
