Having experienced many short term apartment rentals, I must say that for the amount of money asked for this flat, I expected a bit more. It has a lovely balcony with a great view of Brunelleschi's cupola, but otherwise, I think I would leave with a more pleasant feeling about the place had it cost me a significantly smaller amount of money. There really is more to a place than a pretty view. Very spartan, this apartment is really just a giant kitchen with a bed in it. The separate bathroom requires a certain amount of hydraulic engineering consisting of rolled up towels to act as barriers to prevent the entire apartment from flooding when one takes even the shortest of showers. On a different note, which you might interpret as positive, the bathroom is laid out in an ingenious fashion that would allow a guest to remain seated on a commode defecating whilst simultaneously shampooing and conditioning one's hair. Its an amazing timesaver. Even with the small electric space heater provided by the owner, if it happens to be damp and/or chilly as Florence was this past April, one will find that Italian apartments are especially cold. Sometimes they are even colder inside than the air is outside on the balcony. My partner and I were perfectly content once we learned the little tricks required to inhabit this space, but in all honesty $1500 is far too expensive for the product offered.