Hotel Glance In Florence

Located in the heart of Florence near the San Lorenzo Central Market, Glance Hotel is housed in a building designed by renowned architect Italo Gamberini in the early 1950s.

Elegant multi-functional areas, perfect for cosmopolitan travellers, create a warm, peaceful atmosphere to welcome our guests. In our hotel, every moment of the day can be experienced to the fullest.

• Rooftop pool exclusively for hotel guests, with breathtaking views of the Florence skyline
• Stylish rooms equipped with everything you need for a comfortable stay, extra-large showers and turndown service
• Well-stocked breakfast selection with natural, fresh and healthy ingredients
• Lounge bar with relaxation area, garden and social zone with free Wi-Fi

The name Glance refers to the attention to detail that makes the building so special. On each floor, space is given over to an iconic reworking of one of Florence’s most famous Renaissance sculptures.

Details from Michelangelo’s David, Giambologna’s Rape of the Sabines, Ammannati’s Neptune, and Baccio Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus are therefore reproduced on entire walls, as the main themes of a narrative which is contemporary while also paying tribute to Florence’s artistic and historical heritage.

Our meticulous customer care can be seen in our impeccable service, the comfort of the rooms and the design details…touches of class that are easy to spot at first glance.

Glance Hotel Florence is located in the historic San Lorenzo neighbourhood, home to the market of the same name as well as the famous “Mercato Centrale”, the renowned food market which was recently renovated.

Close by you can find the prestigious Accademia Gallery, home to Michelangelo’s David, and the Medici Chapels. The Duomo, Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery are within easy walking distance.

All this makes Glance Hotel the perfect starting point to discover the secrets of Florence. The Palazzo degli Affari, the Centro Congressi and the Fortezza da Basso, which hosts international conferences and trade fairs like Pitti Uomo and Pitti Bimbo, can all be found on the hotel’s doorstep.

Five minutes walk from the hotel you can reach the tramway stop that connects Florence airport to the city center. The building itself, designed by the famous Florentine architect Italo Gamberini, dates back to the early ’50s and has recently been completely refurbished.

The modern and innovative style of the rooms and communal areas is skilfully designed to create the same balance of tradition and modernity that characterises Florence itself.

ROOMS & SUITES
All our rooms here at Glance Hotel are meticulously furnished and designed to be comfortable and easy to access. Along with unique furnishings, the design choices based on simple shapes give the rooms a relaxing ambience which is reflected in a number of features:

• hypoallergenic real wood flooring, essential for guests who suffer from allergies or who have a pet with them
• noise-cancelling windows and insulated exterior walls to soundproof the room and ensure you get a good night’s sleep
• latest generation heating/air conditioning (Daikin VRV), giving guests complete control over the temperature in their room, regardless of the time of year
  large showers for total comfort and convenience
• 180 x 200 cm double mattresses and 90 x 200 twin mattresses, with luxury line for all linen (top sheets and towels), to ensure a blissful night’s sleep
• Tea and coffee maker with products from the Natursan line (Le Vie del Tè, a Florence Company)
• Espresso coffee machine in the Junior suite, Deluxe and Superior rooms

FAMILY ROOM
The Family Room at Glace is composed by two comfortable and welcoming rooms that can give you a unique rest after a sensational day: perfectly soundproofed, double beds (or two single beds in each room) for perfect sleep quality, refined and soft luxury bed linen and towels, kettle with products from the line of the renowned “La Via del Tè” house.

Latest generation heating and air conditioning system (DAIKIN VRV), to allow guests to regulate the temperature in the room in complete autonomy, regardless of the season. Most bathrooms, one for each room, have comfortable XL Showers or the Bathtub.

JUNIOR SUITE
The Junior Suites are composed of two different separate rooms for a relaxing and comfortable stay: rooms with double beds (or two single beds) with Simmons mattresses for an incomparable quality of sleep.

The sitting rooms welcome a sofa with modern lines that can be transformed into a comfortable single-sized bed suitable for a third person.

Complete the traditional equipment a refined and soft luxury bed linen and towels, Espresso Coffee Machine and Tea with products from the line of the renowned house “La Via del Tè”, 2 LCD TVs one for each room.

Latest generation heating and air conditioning system (DAIKIN VRV), to allow guests to regulate the temperature in the room in complete autonomy, regardless of the season. All bathrooms have XL showers or baths with Rituals Luxury courtesy line.

DELUXE ROOMS
Spacious and welcoming design spaces characterize the lovely Deluxe rooms, composed of double beds (or two single beds). The large spaces welcome a sofa with modern lines that can be transformed into a comfortable double bed if necessary.

COMFORT UP ROOMS
The Comfort Up Rooms, located on the top floor of the Hotel, some overlook the internal courtyard and others the ancient and characteristic roofs of Florence.

ROOF POOL & BAR
Rooftop terrace with pool, open from May to October. The aesthetic charm of Glance Hotel Florence culminates on the sixth floor of the building, on the large rooftop terrace that offers sweeping views of Florence’s picturesque skyline. A simple, elegant and modern space, with clean lines and tasteful furnishings.

Our large heated pool, measuring 12 x 3 metres, sits atop the building. Come and take a romantic and refreshing dip – a real treat for the body, the mind and the eyes. The swimming pool is available to our guests throughout the summer.

In between dips, you’ll probably want to enjoy a cool drink by the pool, surrounded by the city’s rooftops. To quench your thirst, the pool bar is open during the day throughout summer, ready to transform into a lounge bar as early evening sets in.

Private events, wine & champagne tastings, light lunches and aperitifs, degustation evenings, cooking displays, musical concerts for a hundred guests, or corporate events: no matter the type of entertainment, holding your event on the rooftop terrace of Glance Hotel Florence will give it a touch of class and a lot of wow factor.

In the evening, the terrace opens out over the city with unforgettable sunsets and the amazing view of Florence by night, making it the perfect location for any elegant and glamour venue.

LOUNGE BAR & URBAN GARDEN
At Glance Hotel Florence, details make all the difference. You’ll notice the beauty and comfort of our hotel as soon as you step through the door. The lobby area, the beating heart of the hotel, is designed for socialising and relaxing.

The elegant simplicity of the contemporary furniture found throughout the hotel creates the perfect atmosphere for entertainment. Guests can also enjoy the large, comfortable sofas and the bar where they can sip on a cocktail and have a bite to eat with friends, or use our Internet Point with FREE WI-FI.

In addition to this area, we also have a large outdoor patio with a garden: the perfect spot for welcome drinks, aperitifs and informal meetings surrounded by aromatic plants and fragrant flowers. You can also enjoy a relaxing breakfast out on the patio.

THE BREAKFAST
An energising breakfast in true Tuscan style. After a peaceful night’s sleep in a supremely comfortable room and a reinvigorating soak in the Glance Hotel Florence’s extra-large showers, all that’s left to set you up for the day is a delicious breakfast.

Fruit and vegetable juices, gluten-free products, natural comb honey, cereals, and authentic products bought fresh every day straight from Florence’s Mercato Centrale (Central Market), where the high quality and local provenance of the food is proven and certified.

MEETINGS
No more boring meetings in the same old depressing rooms. At Glance Hotel, you can organise meetings and conferences, or you can meet customers and suppliers during a business trip in an innovative and stylish space.

Our MEETING ROOMS also have a CO-WORKING area with computers and printers that are free to use.

PET FRIENDLY
At Glance Hotel Florence, your four-legged friends are welcome to join us. On request, we can provide comfy cushions, bowls for water and food, poop bags for dogs, and litter boxes with sand for cats.

THE ACADEMY GALLERY 
The Academy Gallery in Florence is – after the Uffizi Gallery – the most famous museum in Italy. It displays the largest number of statues by the famous Italian Renaissance artist “Michelangelo”.

First of all the David (1501), symbol of Florence in the world and the masterpiece of the Renaissance, brought inside the academy in 1873 to protect it from the bad weather.

With its beauty and strength, Michelangelo’s David symbolizes the virtue and freedom of the Florentine Republic, embodied by Palazzo Vecchio, in front of which the statue was originally placed and where you can still find a copy of it today.

THE SAN LORENZO MARKET
Whether you are individual travelers, couples or families, the city’s Oldest Market is the ideal place to discover the authentics Florentine flavors!

Divided into two section: the ground floor where the real market takes place and the first floor which is a food courtyard where you can taste any specialty from all over Italy. Outside, however, you can stroll around the stands selling the most popular items in town: the leather!

CHURCH OF SAN LORENZO
Looking at the uncompleted facade of the church of San Lorenzo, it is almost difficult to believe that once, this church was the cathedral of Florence and that it was located outside the city walls! The basilica claims the title of the oldest church in Florence and hosts many masterpieces of the majures artists and architects of the florentine panorama.

MEDICI CHAPELS
Right next to the Basilica, with a separate access, there are the Medici Chapels which hosts the tombs of 50 exponents of the noble Florentine family.

The complex includes the “New sacristy” that Michelangelo built to house the tombs of Lorenzo and Giuliano dei Medici, and the Cappella dei Principi, built from the beginning of the seventeenth century, as a mausoleum for the Medici. This stop is unmissable!

THE DOME
A only one large complex consisting of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Brunelleschi’s Dome, Giotto’s Bell Tower, the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Santa Reparata and the museum of the Opera del Duomo. If you haven’t visited this, you haven’t seen Florence!

The experience to get up the dome designed by Brunelleschi is unique, beyond the beautiful view that can be enjoyed from its top. It is the largest dome in the world and following the path that carries to the panoramic terrace allows you to better understand its structure. It is a grandiose and mysterious work, truly one of humanity’s most important masterpieces.

BARGELLO NATIONAL MUSEUM
The Bargello National Museum that we all know was built at the end of the ninteenth century, but a long time ago it was made to be a prison.

Nowadays, the museum stores a lot of sculpture masterpieces, above all of the Renaissance, placed in a thirteenth-century palace, such as art works from Michelangelo, Donatello, Ghiberti, Cellini, Giambologna, Ammannati and much more. The sculptures made in bronze and marble that you can admire today, as other artistic items, originally came from the Uffizi Gallery.

PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA
Palazzo Vecchio, with its Arnolfo Tower, has always been the political symbol of the city of Florence, located in “Piazza della Signoria”. The building was built on the ancient ruins of the Roman theater of Florentia, dated 1st century. AD, still visible along the walkway of the Palace.

At the time of Florence capital city of Italy (from 1865 to 1871), the building hosted the Italian Parliament and it represented for centuries the seat of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Medici Family.

Today it is the headquarters and museum of the Municipality of Florence. Today the museum hosts wonderful rooms and private apartments, all results of Renaissance architectural transformations.

THE UFFIZI GALLERY
The Uffizi Gallery in one of the largest collections of Italian painting in the world and the visit to this museum will be an incredible experience, which you can hardly forget. Even if you are not a fan of art, you are going to be impressed by the beauty kept inside!

PONTE VECCHIO
Did you know that the Ponte Vecchio was the only bridge to cross the river Arno until 1218? The actual was built in 1345, after a violent flood destroyed the previous one and remained so even during the Second World War, when German troops destroyed all the other bridges in the city.

The ancients butchers shops, and vegetable growers shops which were able to unload their waste directly into the Arno, left their place to goldsmiths. Above, it is crossed by the Vasari Corridor, which connects Palazzo Vecchio with Palazzo Pitti.

PITTI PALACE
A few steps from the Ponte Vecchio we are arrive finally at the Pitti Palace. At the time of construction around 1440, it was the largest and most imposing Renaissance private residence of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany in the city of Florence, with its richly decorated rooms and the splendid Boboli Gardens.

It currently holdes four different museums: the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, the Palatine Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Fashion and Costume. From inside it is possible to go directly to the Bardini Garden and Forte Belvedere, the Medici family fortress, a hidden pearl!

BOBOLI GARDENS
The Boboli Gardens is the famous and wonderful Florentine historical park that represent the Italian gardens.

It is an open air museum where you can walk among the beauty of statues, fountains and buildings where the history of Florence and Tuscany has come to life and where curious information is hidden about the life of the nobles who spent their days in the Garden.

Anyone who goes to visit it, even just for a simple walk, comes out enchanted. We reveal one of the curiosities of the Boboli Gardens: inside there is “the lemon house”, where it is possible to admire citrus plants dating back to the Medici era, which they themselves cultivated.

Rooms: 68

Price: from 164 EUR per night

Source: www.glancehotelflorence.com