Hotel Palazzo Vecchietti Suites and Studios

Hotel Palazzo Vecchietti Suites and Studios

Order breakfast to the room at any hour, free of charge, and eat it beside a picture window that opens over the rooftops of central Florence, then step outside into a spot sited between Palazzo Strozzi and Piazza della Repubblica, close enough to Via de' Tornabuoni to browse its boutiques before mid-morning. Palazzo Vecchietti occupies a noble 16th-century residence built for the Vecchietti family, fur merchants and patrons of the arts whose name Dante wrote into the fifteenth canto of Paradiso, a literary detail no neighbouring hotel can claim. With only 14 rooms, the palazzo stays quiet in a city that rarely is; reception runs day and night, and the concierge arranges everything from a Chianti wine tour to a table at a fish restaurant near the Arno. Rooms come with a Nespresso machine and kitchenette, so a traveller can make her own coffee before the buffet opens, and the suite with a sofa gives space to spread papers or settle in for a longer stay. As a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the hotel offers a massage room, a steam bath, and a small library, and pets are welcome at the door. None of this suits a group booking or anyone chasing resort-scale facilities; fourteen rooms fill fast, and there is no lobby to disappear into. It suits someone who wants the historic centre, walkable to the Duomo and Ponte Vecchio, without the noise that usually comes with that address. What lingers afterward is the quiet: a palazzo built for merchants, still standing exactly where Dante left it. Fourteen rooms in a 16th-century Florentine palazzo named in Dante's Paradiso, between Piazza della Repubblica and Via de' Tornabuoni. Each has a Nespresso kitchenette; the hotel offers a library and steam bath, better suited to a quiet stay than a large group.