PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended

The California is a good budget option on a lightly trafficked street near the Duomo. Rooms were completely overhauled in 2000-01 with stylish modern furnishings, richly colored bedspreads, and spanking new bathrooms -- a few with Jacuzzi tubs, and almost all with spacious marble sink counters. There are 18th-century fresco fragments and stuccoes on many of the ceilings, and breakfast is served on a flower-covered terrace in nice weather. A few of the rooms have balconies and views of the Duomo's cupola, and they offer good deals for families.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Florence, Tuscany & Umbria, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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