Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici

Baroque art, designer furnishings, and cheap rooms at the Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici, an inexpensive hotel in Florence, Italy

*** Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici
Via del Corso 1 - Between Via del Proconsolo and Via de' Calzaiuoli
tel. +39-055-280-048
No website
€€

Sights nearby
Santa Margherita de' Cerchi [church]
Dante's House [museum]
Badia Fiorentina [church]
** Bargello [museum]
*** Duomo (cathedral) [church]
*** Museo dell'Opera Del Duomo [museum]
*** Baptistery [church]
*** Brunelleschi's dome [monument]
* Giotto's bell tower [monument]

Where to eat nearby
* Le Mossacce [meal]
** Acqua al 2 [meal]
*** I Fratellini [snack]

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The hall at Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici, Florence
A room at the Hotel Maria Luisa de Medici, FlorenceMy favorite inexpensive hotel in Florence is a third-floor walk-up in a 1645 palazzo smack in the center of town.

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

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.

This is the place I usually stay when I come to town. It's where I've put up everyone from my own parents to my Boy Scout troop (note: make sure you know what you are getting into when you agree to take a group of teenage boys on a month-long trip to Europe).

Bonus: You get breakfast in bed, served by Evelyn Morris, the Welshwoman who has managed the joint for years.

Drawback: There's a variable curfew (usually between midnight and 1am). Also, it's a third-story walk-up with no elevator.

Share a bathroom, save some dough.

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