The stylish, ultra-cool Apartment Drusilla offers the perfect city centre location and a sensational warm welcome. This bright and airy three bedroom duplex penthouse apartment in a beautiful 17th century Florentine palazzo overlooks a stunning pedestrian piazza and its ancient church. It is an indulgent, super stylish retreat that will impress the most discerning of guests, offering designer furniture, top-of-the-range fittings and radiating warmth in bucket loads.
Apartment Drusilla is located in one of the coolest, most vibrant neighbourhoods of Florence, the Oltrarno, where you will discover picturesque alleyways sprinkled with historic Renaissance buildings, trendy wine bars, contemporary art galleries, artisanal craft boutiques, antique shops, restorers, fine dining restaurants and traditional trattorias. Oltrarno sits on the left bank of the Arno River with its treasures including the Pitti Palace, the Basilica of Santa Spirito and the Boboli Gardens. During your stay, Florence will provide a feast of world-class art, gourmet Tuscan cuisine and romantic Renaissance architecture with masterpieces at every turn. It is enchanting, utterly irresistible, and totally captivating. This UNESCO World Heritage compact city allows you to gorge on 16th century palaces, medieval candle-lit chapels, marble basilicas, fresco adorned churches and world-class art museums.
The beautiful Apartment Drusilla enjoys super high ceilings, a cool spiral staircase, and a wonderful mezzanine level. The living room offers a wonderful blend of contemporary cool and antiques to offer a fabulous space. With wooden beamed ceilings and giant windows that drown this magical space in natural light it offers character, charm, and trendy styling. At one end of the generous living space there is a comfy sofa, trendy accent chairs, bean bags, oversized contemporary art and a giant television followed by some easy seating and a fabulous dining area. Here you will find some gorgeous Biedermeier style upholstered chairs surrounding a sociable circular table. The kitchen is just fabulous with its bright red colour splashes and slight industrial feel. It enjoys a handy breakfast table as well as excellent appliances. There is a separate laundry room too.
Apartment Drusilla boasts three fabulous bedrooms, one on the lower floor of the apartment and the others above. They all come with televisions. One offers comfy twin beds and an ensuite shower room, another offers a queen size bed and an adjacent private shower room and the last boasts a king size bed and offers an adjacent private shower room. The bathrooms are truly amazing, generous spaces with vibrant colour splash mosaic tiles. The mezzanine level also offers and open office area with a large desk. Apartment Drusilla certainly offers an oasis of calm and cool in the bustling, vibrant city of Florence.
What Oliver loves...
Apartment Drusilla is a capsule of contemporary cool with oversized art, a fabulous mezzanine and super living spaces where some vintage pieces blend in perfectly
The apartment enjoys oversized windows which drown these gorgeous spaces in natural light. It is a wonderful oasis of calm after a busy day exploring this fabulous city
The neighbourhood is wonderful, very vibrant and full of magical buildings and fantastic eateries
What you should know
Off street parking and public parking is available for a daily fee nearby should you have a rental car
Each of the three bedrooms enjoys a fabulous ensuite or adjacent private shower room
The Italian government might require a small Visitor’s Tax to be paid per person per day
You will enjoy a morning housekeeping service every day except Sunday and a mid-week linen and towel change if you book for a week
A porter service is available on arrival and departure and a grocery service is available though the cost of food is obviously not included
Please note that the use of any external caterers and/or contractors is not permitted.
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Apartment Drusilla is a stylish duplex apartment located in a gorgeous 17th century Florentine palazzo in the trendy Oltrarno area of Florence. Florence’s gems, the Ponte Vecchio, Piazza della Repubblica and the pretty Boboli Garden are all close to the apartment. Apartment Drusilla enjoys a fabulous central location for exploring this timeless, mesmerising city.
The medieval city of Florence is sprinkled with brilliant masterpieces that will totally captivate you including the wondrous Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Basilica of Santa Novella, the Pitti Palace and Ponte Vecchio. There are incredible museums and art galleries including the Academy of Fine Arts which is home to Michelangelo’s ‘David’.
The Pitti Palace was designed by Brunelleschi with the construction starting in the second half of the 15th century. The work was commissioned by the Florentine merchant Luca Pitti who wanted his residence to be the most impressive in the city. Pitti bought all the houses between his new palace and the footpath of the hill to construct the Boboli Gardens. Later, the palace was remodelled and expanded and during the 19th century Napoleon used it as a residence during his rule in Italy. Today, the palace is home to important collections of sculptures, paintings, costumes and porcelain in a complex that includes several impressive museums. These are the Palatine Gallery, the Modern Art Gallery, a Costume Gallery, Silver Museum and Porcelain Museum.
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, or Duomo, stands proud over the city with its magnificent Renaissance dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. This enormous Gothic structure, named in honour of Santa Maria del Fiore, was built on the site of the 7th century Church of Santa Reparata, the remains of which are in the crypt. The cathedral was begun late in the 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio with the dome added in the 15th century. The cathedral’s exterior is decorative pink, white and green marble. Inside, you will discover incredible mosaic floors, a 1443 clock designed by Paolo Uccello and Giorgio Vasari’s magnificent frescoes of the Last Judgment.
If you organise a walking tour of the city, you can skip some the queues, including those at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Duomo. As well as seeing ‘David’, you will also see Michelangelo’s unfinished ‘Slaves’ at the Academy of Fine Arts. During a walking tour, you will pass the smartest piazzas including the Piazza della Signoria with the towering Palazzo Vecchio, the wonderful, picturesque Ponte Vecchio Bridge, the leather market, Porcellino and incredible street art. Few cities are so compact in size and so smothered in architectural gems. The city has hardly changed since the Renaissance.
Florence is fantastic for boutique shopping. Italy’s fashion industry was born and bred in Florence with homegrown designers including Guccio Gucci and Salvatore Ferragamo. Their haute-coutre boutiques were opened in the 1920’s and Florence remains an A-lister fashion destination. As well as haute-coutre, you will discover wonderful family-run workshops, Florentine goldsmiths and shoemakers, artisan scents and fantastic food shops. Florence takes enormous pride in its gastronomy and the city is surrounded by wine-rich hills. You can visit market trattorias serving traditional bowels of ribollita, gelateries with delicious ice creams or fine dining restaurants where only the best ingredients will do. It is impossible not to be seduced by Florence and its many wonders.
The Region
Florence, a charming city located in the heart of Tuscany, Italy, is a place where history, art, and culture come alive. Nestled along the banks of the Arno River, this enchanting destination has captivated travellers for centuries with its timeless beauty and rich heritage.
Tuscany
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