Via Romana 34 · Florence
Hotel Annalena
A nineteenth-century house in the Oltrarno, across the street from the Boboli Gardens. Guests have stayed here since 1919.
A house with a garden in the Oltrarno
The Casa di Annalena stands on Via Romana, where the Oltrarno’s workshops meet the walls of the Boboli Gardens. It takes its name from Annalena Malatesta, whose palace, the gift of Cosimo de’ Medici, she turned into a convent; the neoclassical house of today was built in the nineteenth century, and in 1919 its first and second floors opened as the Pensione Annalena.
Its twenty rooms keep the feel of a Florentine home: antique pieces, tall windows, and in some rooms a balcony or a terrace among the greenery.
1919
the Pensione Annalena opens
20
rooms in thirteen types
20 m
to the Annalena gate of the Boboli Gardens
10 min
on foot to the Ponte Vecchio
Singles · doubles · triples · suites
Rooms
Several rooms look over the gardens; some have a balcony or a terrace of their own.
Salons · loggia · breakfast room
Inside the palazzo
Behind the door on Via Romana are high-ceilinged salons, a loggia between yellow columns that opens onto the greenery, and a bright breakfast room with tall windows.
From the fifteenth century to today
From Annalena Malatesta to Montale
The house takes its name from Annalena Malatesta, adopted by her cousin Cosimo de’ Medici, whose story Machiavelli tells in his Florentine Histories. Widowed, she turned her palace into a convent. In the nineteenth century Carolina Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister, and Raffaello d’Orléans lived here; in 1919 the house became the Pensione Annalena, where Eugenio Montale stayed in his favourite room 9 and wrote Interior-Exterior.
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