Valentine's Day in Florence
Jan 13th, 2009 | 12:14 PM
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Valentine's Day in Florence
Need advice for most romantic hotel and room or suite reccomendation....Valentine's Day dinner or lunch advice....and basically any reccomendations for a romantic weekend in Florence...2 nights 3 days.....
Jan 13th, 2009 | 01:07 PM
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What's your budget?
It's going to be cold in Firenze on Valentine's Day, so you want to think in terms of cozy. Fireplace. Hot chocolate. Heated terraces. Wine tastings. Lotsa pasta. Leather gloves.
Good place for leather gloves is Madova, just over the Arno, crossing the Ponte Vechhio. While you're over on that side of the river, take a peak at the Cappella Brancacci in the church of Santa Maria della Carmine. And you might want to be a gold ring as you come back across the bridge.
A fab place for hot chocolate is Caffe San Marco, and you can load on the calories by eating a bombolini with it, kind of a filled doughnut. It's right across the street from Museo San Marco, a converted monastery once run by Savanarola, and which has the most beautiful Fra Angelico frescoes painted in the tiny monk's cells.
Another fab place for hot chocolate is Cafe Rivoire, right in the middle of Piazza della Signoria, and it has gas heaters so you can sit outside and stare at David's fig leaf and let your imagination run wild.
Even if you are not a museum lover, you should miss sticking your head into Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, right across from the Bapistery (don't forget to go inside there) to see the real doors up close, and the musuem and worth going see the choir boys, etc.
Of course there are lots of other museums and churches -- pick according to your taste and stamina. If you just like small bites, I also recommend La Cappella dei Magi in the Palazzo Medici.
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspect...a_dei_Magi.htm
Negronis (the cocktail) were invented in Firenze. Have one. Or two.
You can stop by the Duomo and crawl up into the dome to the ponder the Last Judgment, and think about how you're going to pay in the end for all this wicked fun you're going to have.
It's going to be cold in Firenze on Valentine's Day, so you want to think in terms of cozy. Fireplace. Hot chocolate. Heated terraces. Wine tastings. Lotsa pasta. Leather gloves.
Good place for leather gloves is Madova, just over the Arno, crossing the Ponte Vechhio. While you're over on that side of the river, take a peak at the Cappella Brancacci in the church of Santa Maria della Carmine. And you might want to be a gold ring as you come back across the bridge.
A fab place for hot chocolate is Caffe San Marco, and you can load on the calories by eating a bombolini with it, kind of a filled doughnut. It's right across the street from Museo San Marco, a converted monastery once run by Savanarola, and which has the most beautiful Fra Angelico frescoes painted in the tiny monk's cells.
Another fab place for hot chocolate is Cafe Rivoire, right in the middle of Piazza della Signoria, and it has gas heaters so you can sit outside and stare at David's fig leaf and let your imagination run wild.
Even if you are not a museum lover, you should miss sticking your head into Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, right across from the Bapistery (don't forget to go inside there) to see the real doors up close, and the musuem and worth going see the choir boys, etc.
Of course there are lots of other museums and churches -- pick according to your taste and stamina. If you just like small bites, I also recommend La Cappella dei Magi in the Palazzo Medici.
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspect...a_dei_Magi.htm
Negronis (the cocktail) were invented in Firenze. Have one. Or two.
You can stop by the Duomo and crawl up into the dome to the ponder the Last Judgment, and think about how you're going to pay in the end for all this wicked fun you're going to have.
Jan 13th, 2009 | 01:11 PM
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Typo alert -- I meant to type, of course, you SHOULDN'T miss Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
and while I'm at it, Frescobaldi, just off the piazza del Signoria might be nice place for wine tasting along with a lunch or cocktail hour nibbles.
http://www.frescobaldiwinebar.it/home/default_en.shtml
and while I'm at it, Frescobaldi, just off the piazza del Signoria might be nice place for wine tasting along with a lunch or cocktail hour nibbles.
http://www.frescobaldiwinebar.it/home/default_en.shtml
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Jan 11th, 2010 | 04:56 AM
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Thank you infotrack.......I was in Florence for last valentine's day...I went to dinner for valentines day to
Enoteca Pinichiorri... it was amazing.......I am looking for something just as top notch in barcelona for valentine's day dinner........
Enoteca Pinichiorri... it was amazing.......I am looking for something just as top notch in barcelona for valentine's day dinner........
