The three-star Hotel Cimabue offers peaceful and elegant accommodations in a quiet residential area north of the tourist center.

The Maxim's 26 rooms are first-rate, affordable and well-located.

The six-room Tourist House Duomo is a reliable B&B with clean, cheap rooms and an unbeatable location.

Though simple, Albergo Firenze features friendly staff, great common spaces, a stupendous location and low nightly rates.

Hotel Pensione Elite is a friendly little number, a modest 10-room, two-star pension in Santa Maria Novella.

The two-star Hotel Medici has a lot to boast about. Mix in 40 simple, attractive rooms and a well-positioned breakfast room, and you have one great budget hotel.

The darling Hotel Giappone offers eight fresh-faced, frill-free rooms with a dash of hospitality.

Tucked away in a 14th-century palazzo, the Istituto Oblate is a simple nun-run budget option in a quiet corner of Florence.

Hotel Abaco, housed in a 15th-century palazzo on a quiet street just off of heavily-touristed Piazza Santa Maria Novella, is a small, centrally-located gem.

The one-star Il Bargellino feels like the cozy apartment of your favorite relatives—who just happen to live in the center of Florence!

We adore the Johanna I, a splurge-worthy B&B situated in a lavish 19th-century palazzo, with wide corridors and high ceilings, in a quiet residential neighborhood near the Accademia.