Where is Hotel Bernini Palace?

At Piazza di San Firenze 29, in the Santa Croce quarter of Florence. The nearest tram stop is Unità, on lines T1 and T2, beside Santa Maria Novella station, about 1 kilometre away.

Which museums and sights are near Hotel Bernini Palace?

Palazzo Vecchio is 100 m away, Bargello National Museum is 150 m away, Uffizi Galleries is 250 m away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Does Hotel Bernini Palace have a swimming pool?

No. Hotel Bernini Palace has no swimming pool.

When did Hotel Bernini Palace open?

In 1850, about. It has rooms and suites behind the Palazzo Vecchio.

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Hotel Bernini Palace

For six years in the 1860s the government of Italy sat in the Palazzo Vecchio, and the members of its lower house ate and drank at the hotel round the corner. This is it.

Class: Five-star hotel
Opened: 1850
Rooms: Rooms and suites behind the Palazzo Vecchio
Area: Piazza della Signoria

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What sets Hotel Bernini Palace apart

The Parliament Hall
The room where the deputies had their refreshment bar is now the breakfast room, with portraits of the men of the new Italy painted in roundels on its ceiling.
Behind the Palazzo Vecchio
The hotel is a hundred metres from the back door of the palace, 250 from the Uffizi and 450 from the Duomo.
A medieval site
The building stands on houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that belonged to the Peruzzi, the bankers who paid for Giotto's chapel in Santa Croce.
A historic house
It is on the register of the Locali Storici d'Italia, the association of the country's historic hotels and cafés.

What it has

The Parliament Hall
Restaurant
Bar
Fitness room

Where Hotel Bernini Palace is

Address

Piazza di San Firenze 29
50122 Florence, Italy

Nearest tram

Unità, on lines T1 and T2, beside Santa Maria Novella station, about 1 kilometre away

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

The hotel of the Parliament

By the middle of the nineteenth century the building was an elegant hotel called the Scudo di Francia. Its best years came between 1865 and 1871, when Florence was the capital and the hotel, close to the seats of government, became known as the Albergo del Parlamento.

When the capital moved to Rome it went into a long, slow decline. It was restored in the late 1980s, bought by the Duetorrihotels group in 2010 and thoroughly restored again the year after.