The photos of the view say it all. The place was lovely and clean and as centrally located as possible for a stay in Renaissance Florence. We were there on the Feast of St John the Baptist, and when we woke up in the morning, we could see the parade in traditional costumes heading to the Palazzo Vecchio out the window. In the evening, we were out at dinner too late to get a good spot by the river to view the fireworks, but we could see the top edge of a few of the bursts over the Palazzo Vecchio (the building is too large for us to see much of it directly).