Parco di Firenze Golf Club
An especially smart solution for travelers who want to fit golf into a Florentine stay wi...
Parco di Firenze Golf Club is an especially smart solution for travelers who want to fit golf into a Florentine stay without turning the trip into a dedicated sporting expedition. Its real asset is urban proximity: it allows guests to carve out a round or practice session while staying close to central Florence, with the freedom to return quickly to museums, hotels, shopping or business appointments. The course is compact and should be approached with the right expectations, not as a monumental golf destination but as a well-positioned city club that is useful and enjoyable. In that role, it performs very well, especially for travelers who value flexibility more than ceremony. It is also a good support point for golfers who simply want to keep the swing alive during a broader Tuscan itinerary. For the right audience, the luxury lies precisely there: in being able to experience Florence fully while still making room for a satisfying round without logistical friction.
Funziona benissimo come golf urbano di servizio: ideale per un giro rapido prima di tornare a vivere Firenze.
Comodissimo per soggiorni a Firenze
Ottimo per pratica e partite rapide senza spostamenti lunghi
Non è una destinazione golfistica da viaggio dedicato
Percorso più funzionale che memorabile
Exclusive Experiences
Secrets found in no guidebook, curated by our concierge.
Opificio delle Pietre Dure: il Restauro dei Restauratori
The Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence is the world's most respected restoration laboratory: it restores for the Uffizi, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan. The director organises private visits to the open workshops where they work on Botticelli, Donatello, and Michelangelo. A restorer working on a Caravaggio from 30 cm away is an unparalleled experience.
“Director Marco Ciatti accepts private visits on Wednesday mornings for groups of 4: you enter the textile laboratory where they restore the 1580 Medici vestment with 400 years of hand-spun silk. Textile restoration is slower than pictorial restoration: one square metre per decade.”
Antinori: la Vigna del Tignanello
Tignanello was the first Super Tuscan: in 1971 Piero Antinori and Giacomo Tachis invented the Sangiovese-Cabernet blend that revolutionised Italian wine. The original Tignanello vineyard is at the Tignanello Estate at Mercatale Val di Pesa: Albiera Antinori organises private vineyard visits with vertical tasting in the family council room.
“Albiera Antinori shows Giacomo Tachis's original notebook with the first Tignanello blend: it was 80% Sangiovese, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. The current blend is different — she explains why the vineyard changes over time.”
Four Seasons Firenze: la Spa nella Cappella dei Medici
The Firenze Four Seasons occupies Palazzo della Gherardesca and the adjacent Conventino: the spa is carved from the 15th-century former convent chapel with a frescoed dome. The Spirito di Firenze treatments use Impruneta clay, Fiesole olive oil, and imported Euganean thermal water: 16,000 sq metres of private gardens with the 14th-century century-old magnolia are accessible only to guests.
“The Notte Fiorentina ritual is available only from 11:00 PM to 2:00 AM on exclusive booking: the chapel-spa is opened with historic Tuscan beeswax candles and the private gardener accompanies a nocturnal walk through the lit gardens. Non-residents only by direct request to the director.”