Even on a tight schedule, Four Seasons Hotel Firenze earns the hours.
Frescoed ceilings, museum-grade interiors and an enormous walled park give it a serene, estate-like calm rare in a city centre. The trade-off is distance from the main monuments.
Set in the restored 15th-century Palazzo della Gherardesca within the Giardino della Gherardesca — at ~4.5 hectares the largest private garden in central Florence. · fourseasons.com
116 rooms/suites across the Palazzo della Gherardesca and the former-convent Palazzo del Nero, with a spa, outdoor pool and a Michelin-starred Tuscan restaurant on the grounds. · fourseasons.com