Four Seasons Hotel Firenze occupies two landmark structures: the 15th-century Palazzo della Gherardesca, commissioned by Bartolomeo Scala—chancellor to Lorenzo the Magnificent—and the 16th-century Conventino, a former convent. Connected by 11 acres of botanical gardens, it represents the only luxury estate in Florence where guests inhabit spaces once reserved for Medici-era nobility and high clergy. Original … Continue reading Four Seasons Hotel Firenze: Where Medici Power Meets Renaissance Prestige