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Bed and Breakfast Palazzi - Via Giuliano Ricci 12/B 50141 Florence (Italy)

Where we are

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GPS
43.814410 (43°48'51.88" N)
11.233970 (11°14'2.29" E)
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The B&B Palazzi is located in Florence in the north-west area, in a 15th century residence, precisely in Castello, at number 12/B of via Giuliano Ricci, an ancient and narrow street with little traffic, typically rural, enclosed between walls at the border of the properties.
We find ourselves in an open space where the gate with the side the two eagles marks the terminal part of the garden of the Villa Corsini. The current B&B was a part of the adjacent Villa.
Although our bed and breakfast is in a silent place out of the chaos and traffic jams, arriving in centro is a matter of half an hour or less.
Below we will give you some distances of the B&B Palazzi from the utility services, we will explain you how to get to us and how to reach the center and the hospitals.
Finally we will list the most important Ville Medicee that will be near the structure and we will talk about Monte Morello.

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DISTANCES AND TIMES (ON FOOT) OF B&B PALAZZI FROM THE MEDICEE VILLAS:

- Villa Di Castello or Villa Reale Di Castello (10 min 900 mt)
- Villa Della Petraia (9 min 800 mt)
- Villa Corsini (4 min 300 mt)
- Villa Di Careggi (27 min 2,1 km)
- Villa Il Pozzino (15 min 1,3 km)
- Villa La Quiete (10 min 900 mt)
- Villa Del Bel Riposo (4 min 350 mt)

DISTANCES OF B&B PALAZZI FROM UTILITY SERVICES

- Careggi Hospital (1.8 km)
- Meyer Pediatric Hospital (2.2 km)
- Orthopedic Trauma Center CTO (1.8 km)
- Florentine Oncology Center (1.5 km)
- Marshals and Brigadieri School of the Carabinieri, Viale Salvo d'Acquisto, 1 (2.4 km)
- Airport A. Vespucci of Florence-Peretola (4 km)
- Peripheral railway stations of Castello (1.5 km) and Rifredi (2.8 km)
- Florence Central Railway Station Santa Maria Novella (6.5 km)
- Motorway: Autosole A1 (5 km), Fi-Mare A11 (4 km), Superstrada Firenze-Pisa-Livorno (9.5 km)
- Fortezza da Basso exhibition center (6 km)
- ATAF Urban Public Transport: Lines 2, 20, 28 (Stops 500 meters away)
- Fuel distributors and car washes in via Sestese (from 150 to 550 meters)
- Oven, Bar, Minimarket, Tobacco, Hardware, Restaurant, Pizza to take away (400/500 meters)
- Esselunga shopping centers (2 km), Coop (3 km), Lidl (600 m), Penny Market (1 km)
- Poste Italiane Office No. 30 with ATM (400 mt)
- Banking agencies with ATMs (MPS, Credito Artigiano, Banco Popolare) (400 mt)
- Cinema "Castello Cineteca" (250 mt), Theater "SMS Rifredi" (2.8 km)
- Fortezza da Basso exhibition center (6 km)
- Castello Pharmacy (400 mt)

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Arriving by train

For those coming by TRAIN, we recommend reaching Rifredi station from the central station of Santa Maria Novella (the train takes 5 minutes and leaves every 5/10 minutes).
Once you arrive at the Rifredi station and exit from the via della Steccuto side to reach the B&B PALAZZI (in via Giuliano Ricci 12/B) you can choose whether to:

1) CONTINUE ON FOOT (22 MIN/1.9 KM FROM RIFREDI STATION TO OUR B&B PALAZZI)

2) TAKE THE BUS (3 STOPS/3 MIN/1.1 KM)

3) TAKE A TAXI (RUN OF 6 MIN/1.7 KM)

1) FOOT ITINERARY (22 min/1.9 km from Rifredi station to our B&B PALAZZI):
Take via dello Steccuto for 150m and once you reach the crossroads with via Reginaldo Giuliani, turn left and continue on this road for 1.3km until you reach the crossroads with via delle Panche (where the hardware store is Masi) where you must go straight on in via dell'Osservatorio and then turn left into via Giuliano Ricci. In the middle of the street, at number 12/B, is our B&B PALAZZI

2) ITINERARY BY BUS
Take via dello Steccuto for 150m and once you reach the crossroads with via Reginaldo Giuliani, turn left and continue on this road for 150m until you reach the "Giuliani Ragazzi del '99" bus stop on the right-hand side of the road (at street number 142).
Here you can take one of lines 2, 28 or 80 for just three stops (for timetables see https://www.at-bus.it/it/linee-e-orari/firenze) in the direction of Castello/Sesto Fiorentino and get off at the "Sestese Sodo" bus stop in via Sestese (at street number 26 in front of the "Deutsche Bank").
From here to the B&B it takes 7 minutes on foot (500m). Once you get off the bus, go left and then turn right into via del Sodo and then right again until you get to the Masi hardware store where you need to turn left into via dell'Osservatorio, following it for 230 meters and then turning left into via Giuliano Ricci. In the middle of the street, at number 12/B is our B&B PALAZZI.

3) ITINERARY BY TAXI
--> ADVICE ON WHERE TO TAKE THE TAXI
Take via dello Steccuto for 150 meters and once you reach the crossroads with via Reginaldo Giuliani, cross the street and wait for the taxi on the right-hand side of the street towards Castello/Sesto Fiorentino.
Taking the TAXI at this intersection is much more convenient than taking it in front of the Rifredi Station where the TAXI will have to make a longer ride and with more traffic lights to come to the B&B). The estimated journey time of the TAXI is 6 MIN.
--> N.B. BOOK THE TAXI BY CALLING THE NUMBERS 0554242 OR 0554390

Arriving by plane

For those coming by plane the B&B Palazzi is about 4 km from the airport or less than ten minutes by car. Therefore we advise you to take a taxi and to be comfortably taken to our home, also considering that public transport is not very supportive in this case.
--> N.B. IF YOU WANT TO BOOK THE TAXI IN ADVANCE YOU CAN CALL THE NUMBERS 0554242 OR 0554390

By car

For those coming by car the recommended exit is Firenze Nord A1 and then continue once in the city towards Castello/Careggi. Once in the Castello area take via dell'Osservatorio and then via Giuliano Ricci where at 12 / B you will arrive at your destination and you will find a private courtyard where you can park your car.

How to reach CENTRO, CENTRAL STATION, HOSPITALS

And don't worry: we will give you INDICATIONS and TICKETS for BUS and TRAMVIA!
*All estimated journey times depend on the time chosen and consequently on city traffic.

Castello & Monte Morello

A few minutes from our bed and breakfast...the most important Medici Villas and Monte Morello...
VILLA MEDICEA REALE AND ACCADEMIA DELLA CRUSCA

(750 METERS, 9 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa Di Castello (or Villa Reale Di Castello) restored by Vasari is surrounded by a magnificent garden designed by Tribolo. Famous above all for the magnificent gardens, second only to those of Boboli. Today the villa, also called Villa Reale, L'Olmo or Il Vivaio, can be visited only by reservation on special occasions because it is the seat of the Accademia della Crusca and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, while the gardens are a site managed by the Superintendency for the Florence Museum Complex.

VILLA MEDICEA LA PETRAIA

(600 METERS, 8 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa Medicea La Petraia is located in the hilly area of ​​Castello, in Via Petraia 40 in Florence. It is considered one of the most beautiful and celebrated Medici villas, for the excellence of its precious pictorial decorations, the period furnishings and for its panoramic position overlooking the city of Florence.

VILLA CORSINI

(300 METERS, 4 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa Corsini represents a valuable villa built in the Baroque period of which our bed and breakfast was an annex.

VILLA MEDICEA DI CAREGGI

(1900 METERS, 9 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa Reale di Careggi, acquired by doctors in the first half of the fifteenth century and restored by Michelozzo for Cosimo Il Vecchio, who died right here in 1464.

VILLA LA QUIETE

(900 METERS, 11 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa La Quiete is considered one of the most significant buildings around Florence, it owes its name to a fresco by Giovanni da San Giovanni entitled La Quiete which dominates the winds (1632).

VILLA IL POZZINO

(1300 METERS, 16 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa on the hills of Florence located in Via Giovanni da San Giovanni 12 whose name derives from the well located in the inner courtyard of the villa, which was built at an unknown date in the fifteenth century, as evidenced by a mention of Carocci of the early years of that century .

VILLA DEL BEL RIPOSO

(300 METERS, 4 MIN. ON FOOT)

Villa Del Bel Riposo, where for a long time the writer Carlo Lorenzini known as “Collodi” lived, hosted by his brother, who certainly drew inspiration from these places and from its inhabitants, for the drafting of his literary work-masterpiece “Pinocchio ”, Whose adventures have been translated into many languages ​​and known throughout the world. The Municipality of Florence placed in its honor a commemorative plaque on 27 April 2007, at the entrance of the villa, now a private residence.

MONTE MORELLO

INTRODUCTION

The territory of Monte Morello is of considerable landscape and environmental interest, due to its location, the value and breadth of the woodland, water resources, the presence of numerous historical testimonies and works of artistic value. For this reason it falls, with the highest degree of protection, among the "protected areas" under the regional legislation.

MONTE MORELLO

MORPHOLOGY

Monte Morello is located northwest of the capital and is divided between the municipalities of Vaglia, Sesto Fiorentino and Calenzano. The highest peaks are the Poggio all 'Aia, known as the "Terza Punta" (934 meters; recognizable by a wooden cross) in the municipality of Calenzano; the Poggio Casaccia, known as the "Prima Punta" (921 meters; there is an iron cross placed there) in the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino; the Poggio Cornacchiaccia, called "Second Point" (892 meters); the Poggio Trini (763 meters) in the municipality of Vaglia; the Poggio al Giro (747 meters) and the Monte Rotondo (708 meters) in the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino.

MONTE MORELLO

HISTORY

The mountain was deforested almost entirely at the time of the Grand Duke Cosimo I, to make the beams of the roofs of the Palazzo degli Uffizi. A first attempt at reforestation of the mountain, also for aesthetic reasons related to the Florentine landscape in which Monte Morello has a leading role, occurred at the time of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, who in 1784 asked the monks of the convents of Monte Senario, Camaldoli and Vallombrosa to buy land on site to reforest them; this operation failed, the Lorraines themselves undertook to buy the southern slopes of the mountain and created a hunting reserve there.

MONTE MORELLO

STILL A LITTLE STORY

Only in front of the danger of landslides and landslides ever more looming, it was decided for a massive reforestation work; started in 1909 by the initiative of the Socialist deputy Giuseppe Pescetti (elected in the college of Sesto Fiorentino) who entrusted the task to the agronomist Mariani Domenico, ended only around 1970 and gave back to the mountain the sylvan aspect of a time by use of black pine, cypress and silver fir. During the Second World War, Monte Morello was one of the strongest and safest partisan bases and theater of numerous war actions, such as the Battle of the Fonte dei Seppi of 14 July 1944. In the woods of Monte Morello, in the monumental area of ​​Cercina, in memory of the killing of some partisans on 7 June 1944 which, through the radio station Radio Cora, maintained contacts between the Tuscan resistance and the allied troops, there is the Cippo to the Fallen of Radio CORA as evidence of that tragic event known as an Eccidio of Radio CORA.

MONTE MORELLO

TODAY

Today Monte Morello is a real Bike-Park with over 200 km of trails. Many paths are not mapped by C.A.I. and they do not have indications or fixed structures to facilitate orientation, many paths are not found on the maps, and there are only natural bumps, paths carved by water erosion and some jumps made with some axes .. for bikers more extremes.
Pedaling it is frequent to meet wild boar, roe deer, deer, but also hares and pheasants, foxes, vipers, fallow deer, skunks and martens.
If you come from outside Florence and want to take a ride on a MTB or a bicycle, we can rent our bikes for free, if you want level MTB or racing bike or bike together with an expert guide from Morello and beyond (you will choose the itinerary you) well we will help you organize all this.

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