Στέκια in Florence

16-room design retreat over Europe's largest private garden

Michelin-starred dining in Palazzo Portinari Salviati

Florence's oldest historic cafe, founded 1733

Mid-century-art design hotel on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

Frescoed 15th-century villa retreat in the Fiesole hills

Twenty-room townhouse hotel on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

All-day concept space: restaurant, cocktail bar, florist and design store

Panoramic Fiesole terrace with the classic view over the duomo

Art-bookshop and vegetarian kitchen tucked behind Santa Croce

Tiny Lebanese saj kitchen with home-cook authenticity

World's-50-Best cocktails inside a 13th-century palazzo

Shabby-chic neighbourhood wine bar in Le Cure

Marco Stabile's creative Italian table behind the Uffizi

Old-Tuscan tavern right on Fiesole's main piazza

Ferragamo-family riverside hotel with Michele Bonan's 1950s-cinema rooms

Charcoal-grilled Ottoman and Anatolian cooking, the city's credible Turkish room

Greenhouse wine bar in a riverside garden by Porta San Frediano

Eclectic 13-room Oltrarno B&B of salvaged antiques and frescoes

Renaissance monastery hotel and the Antesi loggia restaurant above Florence

Mother-and-son counter for handmade Tuscan dishes in San Niccolo