Venues similar to Garibaldi Blu

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

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

Twenty-room townhouse hotel on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

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

Renaissance monastery hotel and the Antesi loggia restaurant above Florence

Frescoed 15th-century villa retreat in the Fiesole hills

The world's oldest pharmacy-perfumery, in continuous craft since 1221

Made-in-Italy cocktail bar of all-Italian spirits, speakeasy mood

Belle-Epoque truffle-panini and Antinori wine bar since 1885

Since-1869 'Il Troia', home of the butter chicken and tortino

Wine-bar bistro of handmade pasta a step from the Duomo

Peruvian-Nikkei cooking that grew from a cevicheria into a gourmet destination

Family-run since 1945, the Oltrarno trattoria Florentines and insiders book

Candlelit Oltrarno bistro-cum-wine-bar, modern Florentine since 2002

The flagship of the Picchi culinary universe at Sant'Ambrogio

Working leather school and atelier inside the Santa Croce friary

Simone Cipriani's open-kitchen counter cooking by Cestello

Hidden 1920s-speakeasy cocktail bar off Santo Spirito

Sibling-run natural-wine kitchen near Piazza Santo Spirito

Boutique enoteca facing Palazzo Pitti, 3,000 labels deep