Heritage hotels in Florence

Le Cure, Florence From $1,200

Collegio alla Querce

A sixteenth-century palazzo and elite boarding school holding original frescoes and refectory.

Impruneta, Florence $$$$

Dimora Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio's Renaissance estate retains a family chapel frescoed by his grandson.

Duomo, Florence From $450

Helvetia & Bristol Firenze - Starhotels Collezione

An 1885 Grand Tour palazzo preserving nineteenth-century antiques and restored frescoed halls.

Duomo, Florence From $250

Hotel Brunelleschi

A restored sixth-century Byzantine tower and medieval church with an on-site archaeological museum.

Duomo, Florence $$$$

Hotel NH Collection Firenze Porta Rossa

A 13th-century Monalda Tower anchor woven into a Renaissance palazzo.

Bellosguardo, Florence From $600

Hotel Torre di Bellosguardo

Sixteenth-century Bernardino Poccetti frescoes crown the foyer of a thirteenth-century tower.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence $$$

Leone Blu Suites

Original Pietra Serena masonry and historic salons across the Ricasoli dynasty's noble floor.

Duomo, Florence $$

Numeroventi

A 1510 Renaissance palazzo with Baroque ceiling frescoes and a courtyard Hercules sculpture.

Santa Croce, Florence From $450

Palazzo Firenze by Baglioni Hotels & Resorts

Protected eighteenth-century frescoes and coffered ceilings beneath an intact vaulted music room.

Duomo, Florence From $650

Palazzo Portinari Salviati

A fifteenth-century palace where Dante's muse Beatrice and Cosimo I de' Medici resided.

Duomo, Florence From $700

Palazzo Vecchietti

A 1578 Renaissance palace reshaped by Giambologna, retaining ancient Byzantine tower fragments and medieval fireplaces.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence From $1,300

St. Regis Florence

A fifteenth-century Brunelleschi palazzo along the Arno, with restored Renaissance frescoes throughout.

Duomo, Florence From $250

Stella d'Italia

A sixteenth-century Vasari-designed palazzo featuring preserved Renaissance architecture, eighteenth-century frescoes, and historic noble club origins.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence From $700

The Excelsior Hotel Florence

A grand riverside palazzo where Napoleon's sister Carolina Bonaparte lived out her final days.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence $$$$

The Excelsior, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Florence

Caroline Bonaparte's 1830s riverside palazzo, later transformed into a storied Grand Tour address.

Santa Croce, Florence From $950

The James Suite Hotel 1564 Firenze

A restored 1564 convent where original Renaissance arches and angelic ceiling frescoes surround a secluded cloistered courtyard.

San Lorenzo, Florence $$$$

Tivoli Palazzo Gaddi Firenze Hotel

Sixteenth-century noble salons preserve original baroque frescoes and an official national monument designation.

Oltrarno, Florence From $450

Villa Cora

An 1860s aristocratic residence once home to Empress Eugénie and visited by Tchaikovsky.

Candeli, Florence From $600

Villa la Massa

A sixteenth-century Medici countryside retreat with a converted fifteenth-century olive mill.

Fiesole, Florence From $1,200

Villa San Michele, A Belmond Hotel, Florence

A fifteenth-century Franciscan monastery with cloisters and a facade attributed to Michelangelo.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence From $300

25hours Hotel Florence Piazza San Paolino

A converted fourteenth-century monastery and former bank headquarters preserves historic masonry alongside the San Paolino church.

San Frediano, Florence From $250

Ad Astra

An eighteenth-century aristocratic palazzo on the Torrigiani estate, preserving grand chandeliers, parquet floors, and historic frescoes.

Porta al Prato, Florence $$$

Anglo American Hotel Florence, Curio Collection by Hilton

Restored nineteenth-century vaults and an iron canopy anchor this 1892 Florentine hotel.

San Marco, Florence $$

Arte' Boutique Hotel Firenze

A seventeenth-century palazzo with preserved nineteenth-century ceiling frescoes across thirteen guest rooms.

Montughi, Florence $$$$

Borgo Pignano Florence

A fifteenth-century hillside villa and ten restored historic annexes anchoring private Renaissance-style gardens above Florence.

Santo Spirito, Florence $$$

Casa Botticelli in San Felice

A fifteenth-century palazzo on Piazza San Felice once inhabited by Victorian poets.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence $$$

Casa G. Firenze

Restored eighteenth-century palazzo that once housed the Ginori ceramics dynasty and Carlo Lorenzini.

Porta al Prato, Florence $$$

Dimora Palanca

An 1860s villa built as a salon for artists, set beside a restored limonaia.

Fiesole, Florence $$

FH55 Hotel Villa Fiesole

Preserved nineteenth-century frescoes adorn guest room ceilings beside a converted monastic lemon house.

Duomo, Florence From $150

Grand Hotel Cavour

Vaulted stone archways and Galileo Chini frescoes anchor the medieval palazzo.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence From $250

Grand Hotel Minerva

A nineteenth-century palazzo facing Santa Maria Novella, once a historic monastic hostel.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence From $150

Hotel Berchielli

A riverfront palazzo operating since 1890, where Picasso and Romain Rolland once stayed.

Santa Croce, Florence From $250

Hotel Bernini Palace

A fifteenth-century palazzo featuring the Sala Parlamento, decorated with portraits of Italian unification statesmen.

Duomo, Florence From $350

Hotel Calimala Florence

A nineteenth-century palazzo preserving etched exterior sgraffito motifs alongside distressed internal stone walls and high ceilings.