Sara's apartment is beautiful and in a fabulous neighborhood in Florence. I highly recommend it over being near the duomo and it is a short 10 minute walk to all of the sites. The square below the apartment has tons of great bars and restaurants and there are loud lively parties most summer nights. My friend and I live in a city so we enjoyed the singing and music drifting in the window as we fell asleep. We did not meet Sara, but instead her darling assistant Matilde who showed us around the apartment and collected the cleaning fee. The apartment was clean and had a fabulous shower.