1 bedroom apartment in firenze

The building has been owned by my family for several generations.
The apartment, located a few tens of meters from the Basilica of San Lorenzo, is close to all the monuments of the historic center of Florence.
Within a few minutes' walk you can reach the Duomo or Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Ponte Vecchio, Piazza Signorie and Palazzo Vecchio, the Accademia Gallery, the San Marco Museum, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens.
The famous San Lorenzo Market is behind the house, as are the Medici Chapels and Santa Maria Novella Station is only a 10-minute walk away.

Living, even if only for a few days, in my apartment, in a well-preserved historic building not distorted by excessive renovations, is not just a convenient accommodation for visiting the center of Florence. It is living and breathing History.
The palace was built by Dietisalvi Neroni ( a wealthy Florentine merchant and politician, adviser to Cosimo the Elder) between 1444 and 1446, on an area previously occupied by the houses he bought from various families including the wealthy merchants Da Fortuna.
The sgraffito decorations on the façade and the design of the palace itself have been attributed to Michelozzo, the architect of the Medicis.
In 1466, after the death of Cosimo the Elder, Dietisalvi and his brothers sided with the anti-Medicean party and were convicted of conspiring against the Medici. Their property was confiscated including the palace built only twenty years earlier. In the courtyard of the palace are, in some of the capitals of the columns, a shield is visible without the Neroni coat of arms anymore, erased as a "damnatio memoriae."
Various noble families have owned the palace over time and provided for enriching the architecture and decorations inside and outside the building. Lotteringhi della Stufa, Gatteschi, Gerini. Around 1840 the palace passed by inheritance to the Barbolani di Montauto family, from whom the present owners are descended. This transfer of ownership had as its protagonist a woman whose life was almost like a fairy tale: already a maid in the family of the Barbolani di Montauto she later entered the service of the Gerini family, making her master fall in love with her composure and beauty, and he took her as his wife. Before she died, being heirless, remembered the family where she had served in her youth, the Barbolani di Montauto, and decided to give the palace and family possessions to the children of Giulio Filippo Barbolani di Montauto and his wife Vittoria Luisa Malaspina, who had been in financial distress