Hotel Raffaello Florence

... (my Dad’s favorite room!) One of our key destinations of interest (particularly for my parents) was to see the Raffaello (Raphael) paintings in 4 apartment rooms.  They were serenely beautiful and life like. We moved along towards the Sistine ...

... . There seemed to be a Michaelangelo in every building - we figure there was probably one in our hotel somewhere. We also saw lots of great works by Raffaello, Botticelli, Da Vinci and others, as well as some rather spectacular churches (most with, of ...

... (Etruscan Museum), and several other galleries (including the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche, or the map room, and the Stanze di Raffaello, the private apartments of Pope Julius II). Murray and I were so impressed – not only by the works in these ...

... in Februery). We still headed directly to the Sistine Chapel, because this time I actually made certain to see the Stanze di Raffaello up stairs. We spent a little extra time admiring the 500 year old tapestries, and maps along the way, but my goal was ...