The Continentale is a Hotel that, for its architectural concept and service formula, is destined to create an important evolution in the modern international hotellerie.

It aims to become the place of formulation of a new vision of the relationship with the guest, based on the strong meanings of the word pleasing. Perceiving the customer as an individual, emphasizing the one-to-one relationship, in a habitat where pleasure, care for the detail and research with no restrictions, constitute the original matrix of every behaviors.

The Continentale, for its exclusive characteristics of vision and design, has been listed in the international Designs Hotels network.
The name, that intentionally recalls and emphasizes the cosmopolitan character and positive of the best "italianità", reminds of glamour atmospheres, pleasant, amusing and fascinating experiences also for those who traveled a lot in their life.

The Continentale is a sort of spontaneously intimate and cosy “drawing-room", a meeting place for the "new international nomads", where the spaces remind, with a modern and surprising key, of a Fifties inspired idea. The years in which Italy internationally represented the place where an extraordinary mix of "joie de vivre", great cultural and intellectual experiences, from cinema to design, featured a new country, representing, like nowadays, one of the more attractive destinations, also for the great voyageurs of the time.

The Continentale wants to regain these universal values and transfer them into our time, with lightness, curiosity and a special care for the importance of the individual and the pleasure of gestures that generate inner, rather than outer, well-being.

A structure located in a strategic and sensational way, overlooking the Ponte Vecchio and the Corridoio Vasariano, equipped with 43 rooms, spectacular Penthouse and a selection of rooms with view on the river or on the Florentine roofs.

The design concept of the rooms, in a balanced mix between hi-tech and soft design, aims to develop the idea of a modern lightness and brightness, through the clever use of light woods and voiles for the beds or in order to underline the light of the big windows.

The details of handicraft quality in the furnishings, summarized in the bureau-trunk that recalls the idea of a "d’antan travel" or in the replicas of the Fifties style lamps, are instead the elements that are closer to the Italian culture of excellence in materials and craftsmanship that represents the fundamental character of this place.

The Sky Lounge “Terrazza dei Consorti” for the total relaxes or for a cocktail, with breathtaking view of the sunset on the Arno, constitutes an unforgettable "atout" for the guest.

The common areas, that by the entrance immediately surprise the guest with a play of "live" images of the life in the road and in the Ponte Vecchio, projecting on a wall this vivid activity and virtually canceling their own separating sense, are planned to be perceived in a pleasant and intriguing succession.

Moreover, the hall will host the art installations of Fabrizio Corneli, one of the most original contemporary artists, who specifically created for the Continentale a series of works of luminous anamorphous. On the mezzanine, the Lounge Bar, together with the relax and reading areas with huge windows overlooking the Ponte Vecchio, transforms these areas in "private mental spaces" of great suggestion and exclusivity, where it is possible to enjoy atmospheres of real privacy.

The Home Theatre Lounge is the new idea of space devoted to relax, with Music and Home Cinema featuring the most modern and sophisticated audio-video systems. Above all these areas, a series of huge clocks as a detail of interior design will mark, nearly as a contraposition, the concept of a "timeless" place, where a traveler can arrest his own daily routine.

The conference room De' Consorti is located in the Consorti Medieval tower, heart of the Continental, and is equipped with ISDN lines, presentation production, audio/video taping, IR translation, videoconferencing, video projection. Max capacity 40 people.

Exclusives bonus by Romantica Tours:
- Free upgrade upon availability at time of Check-in
- From Monday to Friday: Free entrance to the Salvatore Ferragamo's private shoe museum (advance reservation is required)
- Lungarno details shopping card with either gifts or discount for holders welcomed in 30 selected Florentine shops
- Lungarno details shopping gift certificate of 50 euro with a minimum purchase of 300 euro