Dedicated to all the travellers looking for romantic hotels in Florence

During these years, many travellers looking for romantic hotels in Florence chose Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco to indulge themselves with an intimate stay to celebrate the important moments of their love story.

For us it is an honour to be considered
romantic from our guests!

In Florence, a real romantic hotel conveys to its guests the emotions they experience in every corner of the city, in the piazzas, peeking at the inside of the historical palaces, admiring the view nearby the Arno river, or dreaming from the terraces and the panoramic areas facing seducing perspectives.

These impressions, gathered from the outside, walking in Florence, naturally reflect also on the inside of our hotel, completing a travel experience precious and evocative, in contact with the true soul of our city.

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For this reason, the interiors of Il Guelfo Bianco are in full harmony with the aesthetic of Florence, and the interiors of an historical palace, similar to a dream back in time, immersed in the long lost Florentine past.

To be in the very heart of Florence helped a lot this work of philological reconstruction, that has the aim to preserve the most authentic charm of the history of our dwelling, making period details and modern comforts coexist.

The choice of the furniture and decor of Il Guelfo Bianco, is in fact focused towards Italian and French workmanship, made of authentic unique pieces from the 1700s and 1800s, found in peculiar antiques shops.

Every room is decorated in a different way, unique in its style: on the walls a rich art collection of contemporary artists, completed by a set of modern services, guarantee of a relaxing and enjoyable stay.

In this coexistence between history, modern art and love for design, the enchant of a passionate weekend in Florence comes to life, maybe imagining to live for a day the lifestyle of the noble Florentine families that once lived at Il Guelfo Bianco.

We wanted to celebrate romanticism in our hotel, with a journey back in time, because Florence is source of inspiration for these kind of feelings for those travelling in couple, either if they are at their first trip together, or celebrating the anniversary of a long life together.

So, welcome to all the passionate travellers looking for the atmosphere of a romantic hotel in Florence, aiming to be witnesses to a love moment at Il Guelfo Bianco.

For any information write us at info@ilguelfobianco.it or book your room online!

Ваш отель в центре Флоренции

Guelfo Bianco, отель в центре Флоренции, это – идеальное место для тех, кто хочет провести отпуск в самом центре флорентийской жизни: всего в одном шаге от всех знаменитых мест и, одновременно, пребывая в стратегически выгодном расположении относительно всех видов транспорта, курсирующих по городу.

Окруженный несколькими важными флорентийскими достопримечательностями, среди которых Дуомо, Галерея Академии, Палаццо Медичи Риккарди, Капелла Медичи и рынок Сан-Лоренсо, отель Guelfo Bianco позволяет совершать пешие прогулки по городу, одновременно находясь в самом центре туристических развлечений.

При этом, наш отель в центре Флоренции – это не только история и искусство, которые можно ощутить, едва выйдя из номера, это еще и возможность добраться до нас пешком от центрального вокзала Санта Мария Новелла всего за 10 минут!

А если пешие прогулки вас не привлекают, или у вас с собой много багажа, всегда есть классические такси, готовые прийти к вам на помощь. От железнодорожного вокзала до отеля поездка будет стоить около 12 евро и займет около 10 минут, в зависимости от загруженности дорог. Если вы прибываете из аэропорта, стоимость проезда на такси будет фиксированной и составит 22 евро плюс 1 евро за чемодан, и длиться она будет около 25 минут при обычной загруженности дорог.

Если же вы прибыли на собственном автомобиле, не волнуйтесь, вы можете добраться до самого отеля в центре, несмотря на то, что он находится в зоне, ограниченной для движения. Вы сможете попасть в зону с ограниченным движением без какого-либо штрафа: достаточно, чтобы до момента вашего прибытия вы сообщили нам данные вашего номерного знака, а об остальном позаботимся мы.

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При этом, следите за тем, чтобы невольно не стать нарушителями других правил во время перемещения по городу, как, например, правил проезда по полосам, предназначенным для движения автобусов и специальных видов транспорта… во Флоренции следует быть очень внимательным в отношении подобных вещей!

А как обстоят дела с парковкой? Вам следует знать, что во Флоренции проблемы с парковкой могут быть просто огромными, однако отель Guelfo Bianco предусмотрел и это, и соседняя зона парковки, является идеальным решением для тех, кто прибывает во Флоренцию на автомобиле и хотел бы сохранить его в безопасности во время своего пребывания. Парковка находится всего в 5 минутах ходьбы от отеля, а цены колеблются от 27, 31 и 33 евро в день. После вашего прибытия обслуживающий персонал стоянки лично позаботиться о том, чтобы забрать ваш автомобиль у гостиницы и отдать его вам перед отбытием.

Если же вы хотите оставить автомобиль в другом, более предпочтительном для вас месте, это – не проблема, вы всегда можете остановиться на 15 минут перед фасадом отеля, что достаточно для выгрузки и погрузки багажа. При выезде, как обычно, сообщите нам данные своего номерного знака, чтобы избежать штрафных санкций за нарушение режима зоны, ограниченной для движения. Если же вы собираетесь взять автомобиль в аренду, мы будем рады помочь вам добраться до самого близкого к отелю пункта проката: в такие места не всегда легко добираться из центра!

Но, по правде говоря, мы, вообще не рекомендуем пользоваться своим автомобилем в городе! Пешком вы сможете добраться до всех главных достопримечательностей, а такси поможет вам добраться до более отдаленных мест. Передвигаясь пешком и экономя деньги на парковку, вы еще, в придачу, сможете насладиться бокалом хорошего тосканского вина!

В случае, если у вас возникли какие-либо сомнения или вам требуются пояснения, мы остаемся в вашем распоряжении, и готовы организовать ваше прибытие в наш город по наивысшему разряду, будь то на самолете, поезде или автомобиле.

Ваше общение с Guelfo Bianco начинается задолго до фактического прибытия в город, не стесняйтесь обращаться к нам, и мы с радостью вам поможем!
Пожалуйста, связывайтесь с нами по info@ilguelfobianco.it,

мы вас ждем!

THE WEB SERIES FINALE AWARD

The day has come: the Web Series Finale Award is here! We received so many good stories from your creativity, and it wasn’t easy at all to choose one to be elected as most creative alternative ending of You say love, I say tomato. But we had to, and eventually, we reckon we chose the best one!

We want to share with you the reasons that made us elect Marcel Giebelmann as our Finale Award Winner, and give you the possibility to read his story, well, better to say, web series script, and laugh as much as we did in reading it!

Between the many finales received, this is the one that really got our attention, imagining a new finale that is actually an entire plot for a new web series! We found great creativity, sense of humour and passion reading it. Enjoy!

 

The story begins at the end of episode 6…

 

Talking with Giulia the lady insists about visiting the farm. Giulia offers to manage the trip for her. She organizes a small car ( an old fiat 500 or Piaggio ape) for the lady. In the next cut you see the lady crazy driving by using a paper map through the surrounding area of Tuscany towards the farm. She nearly loses her way, but then a traffic sign for the farm appears. As she arrives at the farm she gets a very warm welcome by the owner of the farm, Giulia’s sister. The sister is showing the lady around. After all, the lady wants to know from the sister how many people are working at the farm and if she knows all the workers very well ( because she is already looking for her dream man ). The sister told her, that a few family members are working there, but mostly seasonal workers, but due to the end of the season they all left and she has no contact information. The lady is leaving the farm with a warm thanks and begins to feel very very sad and disappointed. How should she ever find her dream man ??? Then she sees a small chapel next to the farm and walks in. In front of the altar she goes down on her knees and starts to pray….”Please, please help me to find the man of my dreams”. Then suddenly somebody puts his hand of her shoulder from behind and she turns around….She is shocked and heavy breathing and nearly crying. The man of her dreams is standing behind her and…. he is A PRIEST (already wearing his priest uniform. ) A PRIEST… HE IS UNREACHABLE FOR HER. Her dream ends and she is very very sad. “Why are you so desperate??”  asked the priest to the lady. She answers, that her biggest dream died and she was so in love with a man and now she learned that he is unreachable for her. She is totally disappointed. The priest told her, that he feels so sorry for her. But he wants to help her, to forget the bad thoughts. He tells her that there are very seldom visitors in this small village and today is a big party of his family, with all brothers, sisters, relatives etc. He insists that she should join him to this family meeting. At the meeting the whole family welcomes her very warmlyShe asks for the restroom because she wants to take a short refreshment. As she came back from the restroom, she was confused and happy to see the man of her dreams without the priest uniform. She asks him..”did you change your clothes ???” He replies with a laugh… “Oh no, you mixed me up with my twin brother, he is a priest… ” The lady starts to be happy again… all the energy comes back to her. “My brother already told me, that he met a nice lady with a desperate love and told me that he invited you to our party”. He is talking with two glasses of red wine and gives her one of them. – “Maybe I can join you at your desperate journey for your great love, since I was also searching…” They cheer and drink the wine.

THE END ( maybe now playing Dean Martins song… “that s amore

 

How did you like this finale???

Unfortunately nobody guessed the exact ending of the story. The correct answer would have been that Jenny was going to lose her flight back to England, and that she was going to have Italian mama’s trouble…  No, no, no: saying they fell in love is not the correct answer for the finale! That happened the very first moment they met! 🙂

 

Thank you all for playing with us and watching our webseries, You say love, I say tomato. It has been an amazing journey!

 

The Il Guelfo Bianco Team 

GERARDO RUEDA IN FLORENCE: PINTURA VERDE & PINTURA ROJA

Being an art and history lover, sometimes I find myself particularly nostalgic of the good old times. That’s why I decided to talk to you about Gerardo Rueda and of how my wife and I, managed to get in possession of two small but very enjoyable artworks of his, Pintura Verde and Pintura Roja, that our guests at Il Guelfo Bianco can admire while having breakfast.

Rueda’s history ( 1926-1966), artist from Madrid, belonging to the abstractionism, meets ours back in the recent 2002, when the almost forgotten art gallery of Florence, Quadrante, was back in the news again.

Opened in Florence in 1960, by Matilde Giorgini (daughter of Pitti’s creator together with Emilio Pucci, Giovan Battista Giorgini) with the help of her brother Vittorio, famous organicist architect, the Quadrante gallery had a short life, closing shop in 1964, after only 3 years of activity.

Even if for a short time, the gallery saw exposed future big artists such as Vedova, Fontana, Uncini, Scheggi, Rivera, Turcato and Rueda, to give you some names, affirming itself as melting pot of the principal artistic trends of the time.

Despite Matilde’s good intuition tho, her expositions organised in the gallery, were not able to find a collocation in the art market of the time, maybe because those promising artists were of a too premature taste for the period.

All the exposed artworks were thus packed and put in a storage, guarded and forgotten there for almost 40 years, till 2002, when they were retrieved by the Giorginis Descendants and sold, with the names of those forgotten artists, already become important in the world scene.

 

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The exposition in honour of the Quadrante gallery at Museo del ‘900

 

Before buying a painting, my wife and I follow two precise rules: the first one, is that it has to convince both of us, the second one, is that the artwork must have a story and a profound meaning behind that has to captivate both of us.

No need to say then, that the vicissitudes of the Quadrante and its misfortune hit us deeply inside, moving us towards buying Rueda’s artworks, Pintura Roja and Pintura Verde, recently exposed at Museo del ‘900 as a tribute to the artists of the Quadrante.

This story makes me think of how the time passes by, playing an important role in our destiny, and I can’t help asking myself how things would have gone if the instinctive founder of Quadrante, Matilde, could have had some extra time to make her initiative a success.

As John Dalton said, sometimes:

“It’s the right idea, but not the right time.”

 

Would you like to admire Rueda’s Pintura Roja and Pintura Verde and many other contemporary artworks? Staying with us at Il Guelfo Bianco, it will be my pleasure to show you around at the discovery of the many stories hidden behind our hotel art pieces.

 

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Florence is well worth a jump into art, between ancient and contemporary!

 

Choose between our best offers to stay in Florence all year long and reserve your room! 

 

Write us to get more information about our art collection:

info@ilguelfobianco.it

 

See you at the hotel!

Alessandro Bargiacchi

 

Typical cocktails of Florence: the Negroni

Today is on scene one of the most typical cocktails of Florence, one of the most famous aperitifs in the world, officially entered in the habits of all the Italians: the Negroni!

From the typical intense dark orange color, with a strong and bitter taste, the Negroni is prepared mixing together in equal parts bitter, red vermouth and gin. Few easy ingredients to create a magic blend, fragrant and pungent.

It is an elegant cocktail, generally served in the low tumbler filled with ice, refreshed by a piece of orange.

A drink to be enjoyed before dinner, without exaggeration tho! In fact, due to its high alcohol level, the excessive consumption could make you get to dinner… quite exuberant!

 

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The Negroni comes from a 100% Florentine story. It is said in fact, that at the beginning of the ‘20s, the count Camillo Negroni, fascinating cosmopolite, habitué of the aristocratic Caffè Casoni of Florence, coming back from one of his many trips to London, asked the barman Fosco Scarselli “ a little bit of gin” in his usual Milano-Torino ( red vermouth with bitter Campari, lately called Americano). The count’s “usual” soon became a fashionable aperitif, from the dry and unmistakable flavour.

But where can we go today to have a tasty Negroni in Florence?

The best person to ask it to, is surely Luca Picchi, famous barman at Caffè Rivoire in Piazza Della Signoria. Top expert in the world about Negroni, Luca is renowned for its variations of Negroni and his historic documentary book: Negroni cocktail. Una leggenda italiana ( Negroni cocktail, an italian legend).

Picchi’s secret for a good Negroni? The method build on ice! Prepare your cocktail directly on ice, having beforehand refreshed glass and the preparation tools!

Talking about variations, to be named is the one called “ Negroni Sbagliato”, where gin is switched with brut sparkling wine, creating a sweeter and lovable drink.

Some excellence cocktails bar in the Oltrarno area, where to taste a delicious Negroni, are: the Golden View Open Bar, with a fanciful aperitif with breath-taking view, the Fusion Bar where you will find expert bartenders ready to give you the best tips on what to choose and to prepare you a cocktail with professionalism, mastery and expertise. Another place to have a break with a Negroni is located in Via Delle Caldaie, between Piazza Pitti and Santo Spirito, the restaurant Gurdulù, that hosts inside a beautiful cocktail counter.

 

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To be remembered that the basic price for a good quality Negroni is around 8-10 euros, so don’t trust all those places selling it for less!

This said, if after a long day around Florence you are tired and prefer to stay in the hotel, but still fancy to enjoy some real Florence, – like the Negroni- you don’t need to go far: there is Desco Bistrot!

At Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco it is all at hand, you just need to go down the stairs!

And if you feel a little bit hungry, you just have to book your table at the Desco  in order to enjoy a little bit of relax and end your day with a strong Negroni, without worrying about some extra drinks… To go back to your room there is a comfy elevator at your disposal!

 

 

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