The rich hotels offers in Florence

The nature, history, and the art make of Tuscany a tourist region of first order for some time now. Literature and the good tourist endowment have also helped, thanks to the varied Florence hotels offers, and in the other art cities. A long and picturesque coast line, a system of medium mountains gradually with growing forests and snowed during winter, the extreme frequency of thermal phenomena shows the kindness provided by nature in Florence, all places are easily accessible from the hotel.

To this we can add Florence`s favorable geographical position which puts it in condition of seizing the traffic flows between the tourist destinations of northern Italy and the great Roman pole, attracting visitors with its great offers of lodgings in hotels.

Nevertheless the great artistic-cultural appeal of Florence`s outskirts, with San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Fiesole, Chianciano Terme, Lucca, etc., half of the presences in hotel concentrates on the beach resorts of the coast. This is natural in a certain way, if you come to think that in the concept of tourist offer it’s naturally included that of vacations, of longer duration regarding the tourist visits in a narrow sense, including foreigners but mainly Italians (also inhabitants of the same region!). Besides, it’s not difficult for the tourist to combine both things, preferring the sea where they find an abundant hotels offers (and having everything registered in terms of presence) to alternate beach activities with brief trips to the near cities of art in the interior. All in all, the attractive offer gives the Tuscan beach resorts, accessible for a day departing from Florence hotels, it’s truly wide: the beaches alternate the sand with rocks; the islands of the archipelago constitute an offer and a good opportunity for sport sailing; quiet towns are obligatory places in the 'journey.'

Therefore don’t be impressed if in the era of mass tourism, and of the widest hotels offers in Florence in its long history, the Tuscany coast is an important tourist destination.

To the old versiliese tourist region that for the first time introduced in Italy the fashion of sea resorts in the beginning of the last century (it’s of 1822 a decree of the duchess of Lucca that dedicates separate beaches for swimmers of both sexes), the coast of Livorno is added and, in the last decades, that of Grosseto. Viareggio continuous to be the unquestionable capital of tourism of Tuscany sea and one of the biggest centers of its kind in Italy, while Forte dei Marmi conserves its prime of elegance.

The hotel offer in Florence makes the Tuscan art accessible

An inexhaustible offer of hotels in Florence and in big and small centers, with walls, towers, churches and other elements of heterogeneous cultural heritage, allow us to enjoy our vacations in Tuscany, and constitutes the essential tourist contribution to the history and art, making it easily accessible from the hotel itself.

The 140 000 beds in hotels (generally in small facilities directed to the family) and the 280 000 extra-hotel are the main offer of the Tuscany tourist agencies. As for the promotion given to literature, let’s just think about the charm of the countless quotations of Dante - citizen from Florence - located in Tuscany, or the publicity that has been given to the region by important foreign travelers, writers, and artists who have stayed in hotels of Florence, but simply aristocrats and bourgeois of refined culture, since 1600. As example of a film celebrity, the film "Room with view."

For these reasons Florence and all Tuscany are visited every year by nearly six million tourists, for a total average of thirty million stays distributed in the wide offer of Tuscan hotels, with this performance it reaches the fourth position in Italy (after Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, and the Trentino-Alto Adige) in the list of tourist regions. More than a quarter of the guests in hotels are foreigners, coming especially from European countries but, contrary to other regions where the Germanic component outstands, is also noticeably the North American participation.

Once lodged in a hotels of Florence you can enjoy the exceptional art heritage, splendid testimony of its secular civilization. In Florence lived Cimabue, and Giotto, parents of Italian painting; Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, renowned of the architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello, and Masaccio, pioneers of the Renaissance, and worldwide geniuses of Leonardo, and Miguel Ángel.

Their works - as those of many other generations of artists, until the teachers of our century - are exhibited in the numerous museums of the city, easily accessible from the hotel. The cultural offer in Florence comprises:

The Uffizi, the most distinguished art galleryin the world;

the Palatine Gallery, with the paintings of the "golden centuries";

the Bargello, with the sculptures of the Renaissance;

San Marco Museum, with its offer of works of the Angelico; the Academy, the Mediceas Chapels, and the Buonarroti House, with Miguel Ángel's sculptures;

the Museums Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Roman, Corsini, the ModernArtGallery, the Museum of the Duomo Work, of the Argenti, of the Hard Stones.

Famous monuments mark the stages of the Florentine artistic civilization: the Battistero with its mosaics; the Cathedral with its sculptures; the medieval churches with the pictorial offer of cycles of frescoes; the monasteries and the cloisters; the convents and gatherings; the Certosa.

The civilization of Etruscan in Florence is exposed in the ArchaeologicalMuseum that possesses a rich documentation.

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