The St. Regis Florence

What the classifiers highlight

Filippo Brunelleschi's fifteenth-century Renaissance palace on Piazza Ognissanti, above the Arno, houses round-the-clock butler service and a library where guests play chess over Brunello Bloody Marys, the house drink since the hotel opened. Afternoon tea runs from 3:30 with Dammann Frères, and tours go out in the hotel's own Bentleys.