The place and the Atmosphere

How to reach us.

From the highway Milan-Naples (A1)
Exit Firenze-Certosa, drive on towards Florence, direction centre, for about 4 Km., turn right in via del Gelsomino, drive on for about 1 Km. Then turn left in viale del Poggio Imperiale. When you get to the Porta Romana roundabout, drive along the walls’ door to your left and, after the traffic light, enter viale Petrarca. Drive along the avenue (700 mt.) up to Piazza Tasso. At the second traffic light turn left, drive for 200 mt. and you will get to via Burchiello. Driving on for 200 mt. you will arrive at B&B Monte Oliveto.

From the railway station Santa Maria Novella:
Ataf bus-liner nr. 12, direction Porta Romana. Exit at stop Burchiello (the trip lasts about 15 minutes). Walk back about 30 mt., turn left and then left again. You will arrive in via Burchiello, and after 100 mt. you will find our Bed & Breakfast.

From the airport Amerigo Vespucci”
Sita/Ataf “Vola in bus” shuttle service, linking the airport to Santa Maria Novella railway station. The B&B is 20 minutes by taxi and 40 minutes by bus away from the airport.
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Florence and the Renaissance current

Florence is often defined as the cradle of Renaissance: the town is characterized in every street and building by that extraordinary literary, artistic and scientific development which took place between the 14th and the 16th century. Among the facts preceding this period of splendour we find the crisis of the Catholic Church (expecially the controversy about the Papacy in Avignon, France, and the Western Schism) and the disastrous effects of the Black Death, all of which led to a critical re-examination of the Middle Age’s values, producing as a result a re-valuation of the classic antiquity’s ones. Florence took profit of this great social change in every aspect (material and spiritual), and it became one of the catalyzing places of that thought current, becoming in that period one of the most important centres of the world culture’s re-birth.