The apartment is located on the third floor without lift in the historic center of Florence, between Piazza Signoria, the Lungarno and Piazza Santa Croce. It can comfortably accommodate three people in a beautiful double bed (+ a single bed). There is a small equipped kitchen and a bathroom with a shower door. The location is among the best for visiting the center of Florence and also the Lungarni. Washing machine, hairdryer, iron, fan, kettle, wifi tv. Nice view of the Arno river.
The apartment, in a typically Tuscan style with parquet and wooden beams, is located in a small pedestrian street, Volta dei Tintori, a two-minute walk from Piazza Santa Croce. It is in the historic center and you can easily reach the main monuments of Florence on foot in just a few minutes: the Ponte Vecchio is only five minutes away, as are the Uffizi, Piazza della Signoria, Piazza Santa Croce, in ten minutes on foot you can reach Piazza San Giovanni in front of the Cathedral and the splendid Brunelleschi's Dome. The apartment is totally available to guests, is located in a small typically Florentine building, on the third and top floor without a lift. The stairs are wide and comfortable to be able to climb. It consists of a living area used as a very bright open space where there is both the double bed and the wardrobe and table for eating; behind the living room there is a small kitchenette with window, three gas burners, fridge, sink and washing machine; finally there is a large bathroom with shower equipped with a window and with its door in order to be totally independent. The apartment is equipped with fan, electric stove, iron and ironing board, hairdryer, washing machine, kettle, TV and Wi-Fi fiber. Excellent for your stay in Florence. From the main window you can enjoy a beautiful side view of the Arno river and the hill where the Villa Bardini museum and garden is located. Below the house there is a supermarket for shopping comfortably and a garage for those arriving by car, as well as a pleasant coffee. Being in a pedestrian street there are no cars.
The apartment is located in the historic Santa Croce district, a stone's throw from the main monuments of the city. Going down the stairs you are in a small alley that leads directly to the Lungarno, and crossing the river you will find yourself in the San Niccolò district. From there you can visit the Oltrarno, the Boboli gardens, Palazzo Pitti, Santo Spirito or take a beautiful walk on the hill and get to the Museum and garden of Villa Bardini, Piazzale Michelangelo and Forte Belvedere. The point is really strategic for getting around the city freely.
A little history of this small road (from Wikipedia)
The road is a small uproar, and owes its name to an arch that crosses it and to the Art of Dyers, which in this area had numerous workshops. Archaeological excavations have found traces of dye tanks, drains and ovens in this area. The road was sadly famous during the flood of Florence in 1966 when it was flooded by the flood, which at this point reached the most disastrous results: the narrowness of the road made the waters speed, which literally exploded against the nearby Corso Tintori, sweeping both whatever they encountered.
The Bargagli palace, a large nineteenth-century building, and a house of the hermitage of Camaldoli overlook the street, in a corner with the Corso dei Tintori. The latter, with a modest character although enlivened in its overall design by the development it shows on the vault, was in the eighteenth century among the properties that the sacred hermitage of Camaldoli had in this area, as indicated by the shield on the arch of the driveway land entrance, with the sign consisting of two peacocks drinking from the same glass, also significant for the quality of the relief. The two buildings are connected precisely by the vault. Under the vault is the aedicule of a now illegible tabernacle, washed away by the flood of 1966. It contained a Madonna and Child with Saint John on canvas attributed to Gian Domenico Ferretti, whose scarce remains are now preserved in the superintendency's deposits. The wrought iron lantern arm was completely lost. This image had enjoyed a report by Gabriele D'Annunzio in the Faville del Maglio: "the vault where the Madonna is in the tabernacle and the lantern".
The building on the left (with its back to the Arno) was the seat of the Chamber of Labor since 1914, and as such is remembered by Vasco Pratolini in Metello. From 1921 to 1937 it was the seat of the provincial federation of fascist unions and united municipal unions; it also contains the current access to the ex-Teatro dei Concordi. On the opposite side, the oldest part of Palazzo Bargagli shows a small stone with an inventory number.
At the corner of the Arno river there is a tabernacle with a recent Madonna, sculpted by the sculptor Paris Bernucci, within a small eighteenth-century niche. It is leaning on the house of Niccolò Tommaseo and replaces, after the war damage related to the destruction of the nearby Ponte alle Grazie. In ancient times it contained an immaculate seventeenth-century oil conception, which Guido Carocci defined as "mediocre" and which was lost when the nearby Ponte alle Grazie was blown up in 1944.
Under the house there is a paid garage where you can park your car (in Florence, parking is all paid). In Corso Tintori, just a stone's throw away, find the bus stop that takes you directly to the main railway station Firenze Santa Maria Novella. Also by turning the corner, in front of the Horne Museum, you will find another bus stop, and a third one about 150 meters on foot along the Lungarno.
