Hotel Mia Cara Florença

Hotel is one of the best 3 star hotels in the center of Florence which is situated in a historical building in Via Faenza, in the central city's quiet limited traffic area (ZTL). The Hotel is charming and elegant, recently restructured with style and comfort. A warm welcome awaits visitors in the hotel's pleasant, tasteful, modern settings, with details inspired from tradition of Tuscany, such as the pavements in Cotto Fiorentino. Hotel Mia Cara offers a high standard of services: a 24h reception and TV room are always available, Guests are provided with tourism information for visiting museums and monuments nearby the hotel in the centre of Florence, and all the latest news on exhibits and events taking place in town and the surrounding area.

The Hotel Mia Cara features 18 pleasant rooms in the center of Florence. Comfortable, recently restored and completely renovated, they offer the best comforts among hotels in Florence. Classic styled furnishings are enhanced by ample well lighted spaces, allowing the Hotel Mia Cara to also propose family rooms, with four beds, ideal for families with children (a privilege for a 3 star hotel in Florence) in addition to the regular single, double, double-bed and triple rooms. Each room features a practical writing desk, ideal for business travelers or tourists.

A continental style buffet breakfast served in a spacious well-lit lounge with beautiful original frescoes. 

Hotel Mia Cara is a convenient accommodation for visiting Florence historical center on foot with its churches, museums, palaces, monuments, art and trade exhibitions and other main tourist attractions for business travelers and tourists alike because it is situated in an excellent central position among hotels in Florence. The Hotel is close to the central Santa Maria Novella Train Station, the Duomo, Santa Croce Church, San Lorenzo Church, etc.). The Hotel is also very central to access the exhibition centers (Fortezza da Basso, Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari) thanks to its location in Via Faenza, just a two minute walk from the central Church of Santa Maria Novella, the splendid building complex featuring a convent and basilica with a characteristic facade in green and white marble (a refined work by Leon Battista Alberti), housing within it and in its beautiful cloisters 15th century Florentine masterpieces, among which are the Trinity by Masaccio and History of the Ancient Testament by Paolo Uccello.

The hotel is situated nearby Florence major museums, among which are the Uffizi, featuring renowned monuments such as Michelangelo's David, and the resplendent Church of San Lorenzo, cherished by the Medici family, the lords and rulers of Florence in the Renaissance, who made it their chapel and embellished it with extraordinary masterpieces. The austere facade conceals harmonious interiors designed by Brunelleschi, and splendid paintings such as the Sposalizio della Vergine, by Rosso Fiorentino, and at the rear (entry from Piazza Aldobrandini), the Sacristies and Medici Chapels, where the family's tombs lie. The New Sacristy is an impressive work by Michelangelo, in which the sculptor merges a personal style and powerful expressive force in the allegoric statues of Day, Night, Dawn and Dusk.

This complex also houses the Laurenziana Library, designed by Michelangelo and commissioned by the Medici to conserve the precious collections of books and ancient papyrus scrolls in a noble and culturally rich setting. From the Basilica of San Lorenzo, take a stroll among the ancient alleyways of the Borgo of San Lorenzo to the Covered Market, a late 19th century steel and glass structure which still houses colorful fruit and vegetable stands, selling typical products products from Florence and Tuscany, wines and gastronomical delights.

The hotel is just a short walk from the heart of Florence, and the Duomo (a 10 minute stroll); a triumph of colored marble covers the Baptistery of San Giovanni and Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo), with its Cupola by Brunelleschi and Bell Tower by Giotto.

Informações de viagem

By air:  from Florence's "Amerigo Vespucci" airport, take the "Vola in bus" shuttle service to the S.M.N. Santa Maria Novella< central Railway Station; the Hotel Mia Cara is just 300 meters from the station. Just a 5 minute walk: cross Largo Fratelli Alinari and continue along Via Nazionale to the intersection with Via Faenza, the hotel is on the left.

By train: the Hotel Mia Cara is just 300 meters from the S.M.N. Santa Maria Novella central Railway Station. Just a 5 minute walk: cross Largo Fratelli Alinari and continue along Via Nazionale to the intersection with Via Faenza, the hotel is on the left.

By car: the Hotel Mia Cara is situated in the city's ZTL limited traffic area; you will find a pass at your arrival to the hotel to avoid inconveniences and traffic violations!

From the north. From Pisa and the A1 Bologna-Milano and A11 Lucca-Genova motorways, exit at Firenze Nord and follow the signs for the city Center and Stazione - Fortezza da Basso. After the Fortezza da Basso underpass, take Viale Lavagnini. Turn right at the first traffic lights onto Via Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, then proceed to the Santa Maria Novella rail station. Turn right at the traffic lights, then after 100 meters turn right again into Piazza Adua and take Via Cennini in front of you. Turn right at the end of the road, the Hotel Mia Cara is just 100 meters away.

From the south. From Pisa and the A1 Bologna-Milano and A11 Lucca-Genova motorways, exit at Firenze Nord and follow the signs for the city Center and Stazione - Fortezza da Basso. Once you've arrived in Piazza della Libertà turn left at the first traffic lights (as if turning around the piazza), then after the second traffic lights take Viale Lorenzo il Magnifico, in front of you and just a little to the right; turn left at the first traffic lights (Via Poliziano) and at the next traffic lights cross the road and keep to your right to enter Via Santa Caterina d'Alessandria. Proceed up to the Santa Maria Novella rail station. Turn right at the traffic lights, then after 100 meters turn right again into Piazza Adua and take Via Cennini in front of you. Turn right at the end of the road, the Hotel Mia Cara is just 100 meters away.