Hotel rating: 5 Star Deluxe.
Chain: Preferred Hotels; and Resorts Worldwide
Number of floors: 3
Number of rooms: 24
Year opened: 1700
Year renovated: 2005

RELAIS SANTA CROCE, WHEN A DREAM BECOMES REALITY. Close your eyes and imagine a quiet island in the heart of one of the most beautiful town of the world. inside the heart of Florence where there are the most famous monuments and the most important shopping streets of the town. Imagine now an ensemble of history, elegance and Bon-ton, fusing together to enjoy you an unforgettable stay in the most aristochratic of the town. Open your eyes, you discover to be in a wonderful palace, where you feel soon to be at *Home*. Welcome to the Relais Santa Croce, where the style of life is made of harmony, refinement, charm and discretion. Soft lights and friendless welcome the Guest, that immediately is mantled in a discreet and familiar atmosphere. The sensation you receive is to be tenderly circled with all the sagacities to feel you, like Home. And then the Rooms. A few rooms, different each one by the other, as any guest is unique and special. Each room is a little oasis, where searched furnishings of the Tuscan handicraft are placed side by side with the most modern technology. Little classic style bureaus, plasma tv, internet access. Corners with little soft leather couches. All rooms are extremely luminous, as the two great Royal Suite, where toll ceilings Volta¿s, painted with original 19th century frescos, and precious antique furniture*s, alternated with valuables modern pieces, make the stay unique into the *Da Verrazzano* Suite /140mq. and the *Dei Pepi* Suite /85mq. Any detail has been thought to create an ambience where luxury and elegance are mixed with harmony, where the esthetic meets the high quality of comfort. In each room the Guest finds the comfort and the elegance of his private apartments. To relax and regenerate, you can immerse yourself in the huge jacuzzi bath surrounded by the light marble of the luxurious bathroom, listening to good music or watching the tv, while the water infuses well-being into your body. Each prestige suite has inside plasma-TV, high speed internet access, shower with turkish bath and sauna, Jacuzzi, air conditioning, personal safe deposit box. A very big king size bed waits you to fill the operation * Pamper*s Dream*. You discover the serenity and the sweetly of a place where the elecance are a style of life, surrounded by thousand attentions, you feel quickly easy. Is in the obsession of the detail, in the constant fear of perfection and in the constant search of lovely, that has been forged the spirit of the RELAIS SANTA CROCE. Here you will find the best of Florence, the best of Art and the best of living as italian style. An unforgettable part of Florence where kindness and harmony are soul of hospitality and make a place rich of sweetness and serenity, a place easy to find and hard to leave.