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Air Mail | Collegio alla Querce Auberge Opens in Florence
Zero crowds and abundant pleasures make Collegio alla Querce, Auberge, the best new place to stay in Florence
Brunelleschi’s imposing Duomo and Giotto’s marble Campanile have been admired from this site overlooking the city center since the 16th century. The hotel was originally the home of a noble Italian family. They covered its walls in frescoes, many of which are still visible today. It passed into the hands of the Barnabite monks in the mid–18th century, and Collegio alla Querce—college of the oaks—became a boarding school for the order’s elites. It closed in the 1990s and has been abandoned ever since.
