travel42 Hotel Review: Villa San Michele, A Belmond Hotel

Villa San Michele, A Belmond Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

An easy 20-minute limo ride from the frenzy of central Florence, in a 16-hectare terraced park of cypress and olive trees, this property has perhaps the most impressive lineage of any hotel in the world.

After all, the Medici once owned this 16th-century monastery, and Michelangelo designed the facade. However, since the opening of Villa Mangiacane, located about 15 kilometers south of the Ufizzi, this is not the only hotel with angelic provenance. Purpor...