Beautiful and characteristic apartment, on the first floor of a 17th century historical building, in a typical Renaissance Florentine street, that of “Sant Antonino”, imbedded in the S. Lorenzo Local Market area, hearth of Florence’s historical centre.
All furnished and completely restored, it looks like the typical old Florentine “house”, in a traditional style as for its walls and floor (the red bricks, better known as “cotto fiorentino”), the apartment is composed of the entrance/living room with a large sofa bed (where is also a well furnished bookcase), two bedrooms with double beds, one of them having a large American wardrobe, besides a real comfortable all equipped kitchen and one bathroom with shower. It does exist also an interior terrace where it is possible to dry clothes and to enjoy fresh air, during the hot hours of the Florentine summer.

The typical Florentine ancient style kitchen is fully equipped to cook and to enjoy meals, besides being a comfortable environment thanks to its facilities (washing-machine, TV, dishwasher, oven and refrigerator).
Its wonderful position allows guests to reach all the Florence major cultural sites - Dome Cathedral, Baptistery, “Giotto” Tower, “Signoria” Palace, “Ponte Vecchio”, “Pitti” Palace and the renowned churches of “Santa Croce”, “San Lorenzo”, “Santa Maria Novella” and, not last, “Orsanmichele” with “La Badia Fiorentina”, where is a splendid painting of Filippino Lippi, celebrating the “Madonna”.
As for practicalities: near the flat is a convenient supermarket, bakeries and trattorias/pizzerias with nice food at convenient prices, a post office and banks, besides charming shopping streets, a pharmacy and a tourist office.

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The flat is located in S. Lorenzo District, the heart of Florence historical centre in all the main important historic periods. Today the realities of the area are, “S. Lorenzo” church with the “Biblioteca Laurenziana” made by Michelangelo and “Cappelle Medicee” magnificent a part, the leather and food market (both 100 metres down the flat, generally closed on Monday for the leather and on Saturday afternoon and Sunday for the food one) in which you can find all the typical hand made genuine food, as fresh pasta, or regional and national characteristic cheese and salami, but as well the really good meet of Florentine steak and really fresh and organic local fruits and vegetables.
For the clothes and leather market you can find really good hand made quality of clothes, jacket and gloves ( generally there are really good discount during summer period where you can buy a jacket for 50 euros!) and all Florentine characteristic handmade products as ceramics, fabrics and bags!
More you can enjoy the different opportunity of food offered around the apartment by historic and well known over the world bars ( I suggest for cake and pastries the “Sieni” bar just around the corner down the flat, try the “budino di riso” or “schiacciata alla fiorentina” typical sweet !) and restaurants as “Palle d’Oro “ (down the flat) or “Zazzà” just 200mts outside the flat (where I suggest to ask for the “ribollita” or “bistecca alla fiorentina” or the ” tagliatelle” with Porcini mushrooms) or if you want you can have also a break of exotic Brazilian time in Italy at the “Maracanà” just over the corner, where you can enjoy more than food, the exuberant typical Brazilian atmosphere of the samba show!

The area is normally really vivid and coloured one, especially during spring and summer period where are typical festival as S. Giovanni on 24 of June and S. Lorenzo night on the 13 of August, where you can enjoy with local people and the quarter residents typical food on the street!

Minimum stay 3 nights. Weekly cleaning is not included in the apt rate. A 100 Euro charge for final cleaning will be added to the total bill. Guests will find the apartment clean and tidy and are expected to leave it in the same conditions, for the check-out. The refrigerator must be emptied, kitchenware washed up and garbage taken out of the apartment (on the contrary customers are requested to pay an extra charge of 50 Euros).

Check-in preferably on Saturday or every day after 6pm;
Check out preferably on Saturday or every day before 9 am or after 6pm;

Payments have to be "cash": 50% at the booking (bank transfer); the rest at the apartment entrance (50%). A security deposit of 300 Euros will be requested upon arrival, as a guarantee, to be returned at the check-out, after having checked the status of the apartment and all its belongings.

Cancellations over 60 days in advance will receive 1/2 refund.
Cancellations over 30 days in advance will receive 1/3 refund.

Guests are kindly asked not to smoke inside the apt.

It is forbidden to admit in the apartment a number of persons exceeding that on the booking form or exceeding the number of beds in the apartment (4persons).

“Really wonderful experience to be in Miss Piras home, the flat is so comfortable and all furnished, the atmosphere absolutely warm and all so characteristic as an a typical Florentine stile! I felt at home in the heart of Florence, the renaissance centre over the world, thanks a lot, Kanako!”
_Mrs Kanako Murakami 16 August.

“Really comfortable flat and interesting location on the centre of Florence, in particular we had the possibility to enjoy Caterina library with all her architectural and urbanism book about history of Florence, Thanks a lot!”
_Michael Jarcho and his sweet daughter and wife from Minneapolis, 3 October