Your castle in the hills

The Torre di Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy

Torre di Bellosguardo
When most folks want that Florentine hotel in the hills fix, they head toward Fiesole. Most folks are dead wrong. The best "countryside" hotel in Florence lies on the south side of the Arno, on Bellosguardo Hill. Why is it the best?

This place feels more like a bona fide medieval/Renaissance castle than just about any other hotel in Italy, with period rooms that don't feel too duded up for modern tastes and echoing halls with flying stone staircases down which you expect to see Errol Flynn come swashbuckling at any moment. What's more, there's an amazing close-up panorama of the city just across the olive groves beyond the swimming pool.

If I had the scratch, this is where I would stay every time.

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