Porta Faenza Hotel Florence

General Information

The Hotel Porta Faenza will produce you savour the family atmosphere of the antique time Florentine houses: the tile floor, the exposed beams, the antique tools scattered everywhere, toghether with all the amenities will produce it your perfect home in the antique Florence.

The Hotel is situated in the center, right next to the central railway station (Santa Maria Novella), to Palazzo dei Congressi (the Conference Center) and to the Fortezza de Basso. The plurality attractive memorials and galleries in Florence are within a short distance.

For being located in a foot passenger precinct, the Hotel is a tranquil and marvellous site, the perfect point of departure for you to explore Florence and its artistic and cultural life. Hotel Porta Faenza is located in Via Faenza - one of the earliest medival streets in Florence - close to Porta Faenza, a gate in the fiteenth-cnetrury town walls. It was designed in 1997 via the restoration and conversion of Palazza Pegna, the antique residence of a family of merchants, whose original structure features been maintained intact.

Porta Faenza was part of the town walls and was located at the end of what is up until now called Via Faenza. It features been so called not for being positioned towards the city in Emilia, but from the name of the Nuns from Faenza, who had their convent in the surrounding area once. Between 1534 adn 1537 Porta Faenza was connected to the Fortezza da Basso without being demolished: by watching attentively you are able to silent distinguish its sqared profile in the central bastion towards the town or its arch from the interior of the fortress.