Florence Marathon November 2010

Hotel Calzaiuoli, a 4 star hotel in Florence, is the right chiice for your stay during the Marathon in November 2010.

It has a charming breakfast room where you can start your day enjoying a rich American buffet or the typical Florence pastries, with a wide choice of Tuscan cold cuts and cheeses.

A welcoming and private environment, with a view over Via Calzaiuoli, where you can try sweet or salted specialties before going to visit the city museums and monuments. An excellent room service for continental breakfast is also available until 10.00 am.

For lunch and dinner, the staff at Hotel Calzaiuoli is ready to recommend you the best restaurants in the surroundings, in the very heart of Florence, where you can try the traditional taste and flavour of Florentine cuisine, appreciated worldwide.



The Florentine route follows landscape views and monuments of singular beauty, which made the city famous worldwide. A route touching the most fascinating places in Florence, such as piazza del Duomo, piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio and many other roads and squares rich in history and culture, before ending in the solemn majesty of piazza Santa Croce. The path is fully surfaced and ramp-free, exception made for the slightly sloping stretch of road at the start. Those characteristics make it particularly flowing and appreciated by all the athletes.

The Florence Marathon is the main road race event taking place in Tuscany, which together with Rome is rightly by now the most important international marathon in Italy and among the first 20 marathons in the world as far as quality and number of participants. The event inaugurated by Orlando Pizzolato, multi-winner of the New York Marathon, has been attended during the years by some of the main Italian athletes such as Giacomo Leone, Francesco Ingargiola, Michele Gamba, Fabio Rinaldi, Denis Curzi and Angelo Carosi, in the men’s field, Tiziana Alagia, Gloria Marconi, Florinda Andreucci, Bettina Sabatini, Anna Rita Incerti and Vincenza Sicari, in the women’s field, just to mention a few, besides top-ranking foreign runners. James Kutto, Kenyan beginner over the long distance, who crossed the finishing line in 2h08’41 “, exceeding the record established by his compatriot Daniel Kirwa Too in the year 2001, with 2h10’38”, has established the men’s record of the event in the year 2006. On the contrary, the women’s record has been established during the 2002 edition by the Slovenian Helena Javornik, winning with the excellent time of 2h28’15”.


Special discounted promotion “Marathon” for a minimum stay of two nights, American breakfast and taxes included.

Reserve your stay at Hotel Calzaiuoli forNovember 2010 Marathon in Florence!

Hotel Position

By car: from Autostrada A1 (motorway) exit at Firenze Nord, then follow directions to Centro Firenze Duomo (Centre of Florence Cathedral).

By train: the Hotel Calzaiuoli is at 10 minutes on foot from the station of Santa Maria Novella. When you leave the station, follow directions to Centro (Centre) and Duomo (the Cathedral). The Hotel is very easy to find: it is in Via Calzaiuoli, the road which connects the square Piazza del Duomo with Piazza della Signoria.

By plane: The Hotel Calzaiuoli is at about 10 km from the airport Amerigo Vespucci Peretola Florence, which can be reached within minutes or by the ATAF shuttle bus (ticket price 4,50 ). Get off at the train station, the Hotel is at 10 minutes on foot. You can also catch a taxi (price: 20,00 approximately).

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