Hotel type: B&B/Inn
5 rooms.
3 floors.
Built in 1892.
Renovated in 2002.
Location: Villa La Sosta is a 10 or 15 minute walk from the downtown and a 10 minute bus ride from the train station
Fantoni brother and sister have decided to use a part of this family villa, which dates back to the end of the nineteenth century, as a high class Bed and Breakfast. It’s certainly the ideal place for visiting Florence and its surroundings, enjoying an invaluable atmosphere of tranquillity and harmony.
Giusy and Antonio offer their guests warmth and spontaneity so that their stay at Villa La Sosta is like a “home away from home”.
The name of this elegant Florentine residence is linked to the road that the gardens look onto: Via Bolognese. It is the oldest postal road crossing the Tuscan Apennines and today gives convenient access to Florence from the most charming residential area around the city.
In one direction it leads to the city centre, but in the other, this road, which starts from the ancient gate of S. Gallo at Ponte Rosso, leads up the Pellegrino hill and continues through the hills of Pietra and Lastra, Trespiano and Pratolino. Here, once past the park of the Medici villa of the same name, it leaves Florence behind it and continues upwards to Futa, in the direction of Bologna, through valleys, ridges and mountains.
Villa La Sosta, which in the past was part of a more extensive hotel on the Montughi hill, is surrounded by large gardens with cypress and fruit trees; the building itself is elegant and sober, enriched by architectural elements recalling the eclectic style of the beginning of the 1900s, like the main bow-window entrance and the tower-mansard which gives a view of the surrounding hillside.
The continental breakfast is served in the spacious and elegant hall in colder months and in the garden, under an ivy pergola, in the summer. We can serve gluten-free breakfasts. There is also a billiard room and a suggestive and panoramic windowed attic where guests can relax, read, play cards, watch television or listen to music.
Private car park inside the grounds, internet point.
Credit cards accepted: Visa, MasterCard
Check In/Check Out: 2:00 pm / 11:00 am
Children: Children age 2 and older are charged at the same rate as adults.
Smoking policy: Entire hotel is non-smoking.
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