The musuem has held Medici collections of Etruscan, Roman, Greek, and Egyptian art since 1870.

Address:
9B Piazza Santissima Annunziata
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-294-883

The chapel contains The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, Masaccio’s early Renaissance masterpiece.

Address:
10 Piazza del Carmine, Santa Maria del Carmine
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-276-8224

Following a massive building restoration, Florence’s 117-room Four Seasons hotel finally opened in June 2008. Located in the fifteenth/sixteenth-century Palazzo Scala della Gherardesca—with monumental frescoed halls and room décors that range from opulent Renaissance suites to a discreetly elegant, almost Georgian style in most r... Moreooms—this is the city’s first true resort hotel. Facilities include a spa, an outdoor pool, and an eight-acre private park. Room amenities go beyond the usual satellite TV to included DVD players, iPod docking stations, twice-daily maid service, and WiFi. Service, under manager Patrizio Cipollini, is top notch. There’s an annex in an ex-convent—500 yards away, on the far side of the park—with its own entrance at 46 Via Gino Capponi.

Address:
99 Borgo Pinti
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-262-6250Less

The hotel restaurant of the Four Seasons Hotel, Firenze is serious and excellent. Chef Vito Mollica serves homemade pastas such as ricotta-and-mint ravioli in a lamb sauce.

Address:
99 Borgo Pinti, Palazzo della Gherardesca Hotel
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-262-61

The restaurant, so named because the long, vaulted space once housed a carousel, is a perfectly straightforward restaurant owned and run by Prince Dimitri and Soldano d’Asburgo Lorena. Everything’s good, from a plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce to the boneless bigeon on a spit and the "infernal potatoes" it comes with.
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Address:
12/R Borgo Pinti
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-241-341Less

The museum houses an impressive collection of African and Asian art.

Address:
12 Via Proconsolo, Near the Duomo
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-239-6449

A café with delicious small plates, located on the ground floor of a palazzo in Santa Croce.

Address:
11/13R Via Isola delle Stinche
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-289-368

Opened in December 2006, PORTOfino is rapidly becoming the Florentine’s favorite seafood restaurant. Although it’s ten minutes by cab from the city center, the ride is well worth it. The stylish, 40-seat dining room has washed wood floorboards and tables draped in ecru cloths, and the ultra-fresh fish comes from Liguria or Livorno each ... Moreday. Ask the waiter to recommend the day’s best catch.

Signature Dish: Raw fish and oysters served on a bed of ice; fish carbonara (spaghetti with egg and catch of the day).

Address:
25-27R Viale Mazzini
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-244-140Less

The city’s best kosher option serves a mean lox, couscous, and falafel.

Address:
Via Luigi Carlo Farini, 2a
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-241-341

This lively, sprawling street market is an obligatory stop for anyone in search of cheap and cheerful fashion accessories and gifts. These days many of the leather goods on sale are made in Chinese-owned factories in the nearby Prato area, but the prices are reasonable and the quality is often surprisingly high. Look out for fine-spun silk scarves ... Moreand brightly colored leather wallets, belts and bags. Sometimes, you can even find something to die for—like a jewel-colored antelope suede shirt. The market doesn’t run on Sundays.

Address:
Piazza del Mercato Centrale
Florence, Tuscany
ItalyLess

The museum includes the famed monks’ cells with frescoes by Fra Angelico.

Address:
3 Piazza San Marco
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-290-112

View the church’s frescoes by Perugino, Andrea del Sarto, and Jacopo da Pantormo.

Address:
Piazza Santissima Annunziata
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-266-181

With his mass of snowy white hair and beard, it’s hard to miss restaurateur Fabio Picchi as he flits between the four establishments that make up his gourmet empire in Florence’s up-and-coming Sant’Ambrogio area. These days, he spends most of his time at ... Moree" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/restaurants/teatro-del-sale-florence" target="blank">Teatro del Sale, but his first enterprise was the upscale Cibrèo, where the Tuscan food is exquisite and the service top-notch. However, if uniformed waiters aren’t a priority, go instead to the 30-seat Trattoria Cibrèo, which serves the same fare just up the street. Sure, the atmosphere is a little more rustic—marble-topped wooden tables crammed into a small space—and you may need to wait a bit for a table (reservations are not accepted) but you’ll pay less than half the price for a more limited menu of the same dishes. Signature Dishes: Yellow pepper soup; pigeon stuffed with spiced fruit; Italian cheesecake with bitter orange sauce.

Address:
122R Via de’ Macci
Florence, Tuscany
Italy

Phone:
39-055-234-1100Less