travel42 Hotel Review: Antica Torre di Via Tornabuoni

Antica Torre di Via Tornabuoni travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located upriver from the Ponte Vecchio, eyeing the romantic Ponte Trinita, a 10-minute walk from the Uffizi, about the same distance from the Duomo, this extraordinary, crenellated structure was constructed by nobility in the early 13th century.

Passed down the bloodline until around 1700, its hotel roots were set down in the early 1900s when it was a was a privileged pension for British aristocrats. It wasn't converted into an honest-to-goodness hotel un...