This is the place I usually stay when I come to town. The hotel's dim halls are crowded with genuine baroque art-a marble child in a chair, a chipped sculpture from the della Robbia studio, tattered oil paintings by Van Dyck and Sustermans-and the cavernous rooms are stuffed with a mix of antiques and 1950s designer furnishings. However, it gets my personal highest, three-star rating for having ten times the character of chic hotels that charge five times as much-and for being in the precise geographic center of the city, on what was once the decamanus maximus (main street) of the Roman settlement Fiorentina.

This is not a luxury hotel in any sense of the word-not by a long shot.

My favorite inexpensive hotel in Florence is a third-floor walk-up in a 1645 palazzo smack in the center of town. Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici SADLY, THE MARIA LUISA DE' MEDICI HAS CLOSED.īaroque art, designer furnishings, and cheap rooms at the Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici, an inexpensive hotel in Florence, Italy

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