Lugares in Florence

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

Florence's oldest historic cafe, founded 1733

Red-velvet, Pergola-theatre seats — the see-and-be-seen Sant'Ambrogio bistrot

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

Neighbourhood wine shop and aperitivo room in Le Cure

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

Panoramic Fiesole terrace with the classic view over the duomo

Café, aperitivo and culture inside a Renzo Piano-restored former prison

Tiny Lebanese saj kitchen with home-cook authenticity

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

Cult San Frediano craft-cocktail bar with an irreverent list

Shabby-chic neighbourhood wine bar in Le Cure

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

Twentieth-century and contemporary art in a former Leopoldine hospital

The antiquarian's jewel-box museum, blue walls and the Devil's bronze

Greenhouse dining room reinventing Tuscan cooking in Sant'Ambrogio

Old-Tuscan tavern right on Fiesole's main piazza

Florence's leading stage for international contemporary art

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

Hidden 1920s-speakeasy cocktail bar off Santo Spirito

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

Greenhouse wine bar in a riverside garden by Porta San Frediano

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

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

Renaissance monastery hotel and the Antesi loggia restaurant above Florence

Late-night neighbourhood wine room on Borgo San Frediano

Florence's gelato dynasty, the same family since 1929

Carpenter's-workshop cafe-bar on Piazza Santo Spirito with live music

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