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Central and conveniently located near the Palazzo dei Congressi and Palazzo degli Affari, as well as a short walk from the Duomo, Santa Maria Novella, and San Lorenzo, the Hotel Atlantic Palace is also one of the easiest to reach of Florence's 4 star hotels from the Santa Maria Novella Train Station and from the shuttle terminal for the Florence Amerigo Vespucci Airport (only five minutes on foot).
Just a few steps from the hotel, 50 meters away in Via Faenza, you will find a masterpiece of the early Florentine Renaissance, the Cenacolo di Fuligno, a splendid fresco of the Last Supper by Perugino. Meanwhile, only five minutes away, the famous covered Market of Piazza San Lorenzo remains to this day one of the authentic corners of Florence. In this lovely Art-Nouveau structure of iron and glass, among the colorful fruit and vegetable stands, you will also find many typically Florentine and Tuscan products, such as "finocchiona", Tuscan bread, Marrone del Mugello PGI chestnuts, Certaldo onions, Empoli artichokes, Florentine saffron, and truffles, just to name a few.
A little further on your walk is the Basilica di San Lorenzo, once the parish church of the Medici family. Its patrons embellished the building over the centuries, commissioning the greatest artists of the Florentine Renaissance, including Brunelleschi and Donatello. Michelangelo's Sacrestia Nuova (New Sacristy) holding the Chapel of the Princes is a powerful and poetic synthesis of architecture and sculpture. |
