We thoroughly enjoyed our 5 night stay in Maria's apartment. Maria has been wonderful to deal with, easy to communicate with and is lovely, the perfect host, she met us at the apartment for check in which made it nice and easy and she showed us around and how things worked. The apartment is in such a fantastic location, close to everything and very safe. It was clean, spacious, well equipped and with air conditioning in the bedrooms which made sleeping very comfortable. We walked to Piazzale Michelangelo at 4.30am with our teenage son to watch and photograph sunrise and it couldn't have felt safer. There are lots of great quality restaurants and cafe's nearby, we ate twice at Le Antiche Carrozze which is less than 5 minutes from the apartment and had the most delicious food we have tasted and reasonably priced, it is on the corner and overlooks a piazza where musicians were playing now and then. The train station was a 10 minute easy walk and all of the other sites were so close. We enjoyed ice cream at La Carraia's which was under 10 minutes walk away. A supermarket was close by just across the Ponte Vechio bridge which was very convenient. We thoroughly recommend Maria's apartment and wouldn't hesitate to book it again if we are lucky enough to visit Florence again. Thank you for an enjoyable stay