Via de’ Guicciardini 24
A blend of Florence’s historic past and post-war reconstruction
Located in a historic building that survived the bombings of World War II, our guest house offers a unique atmosphere where tradition and modernity come together. It is the perfect starting point to explore the city and experience its authentic beauty.
1944 – The destruction of war affected most of the buildings of Via de Guicciardini severely damaging the houses in front of Piazza Santa Felicita and The Guicciardini palace.
1952 – The reconstruction began as a result of a competition held in 1946. The Guicciardini road was slightly enlarged. The only variation was the opening of Via de Barbadori that had to be as planned, a doubling of Borgo San Jacopo to the Bridge Santa Trinita; A project, however, never realized. In the mid- ’50s, the house on the corner of Via Guicciardini street and Via Dello Sprone and part of the house in Termini Ventura was built by the architect Giovanni Michelucci for INA Insurance.
2014 – Exactly in this house, which took the name of Termini Ventura from the first owner, which turns out to be a mix between the past and the Florentine historical reconstruction post war, comes our guest house ” Guicciardini24″. At number 24 Via de ‘ Guicciardini is the entrance, through a large door on the façade of the building, which is styled in Italian rationalism. The bed and breakfast is spread throughout the historic part of the building, this part dates back to the fourteenth century that survived the bombings of World War II. It is part of one of the eight buildings built by the well-known character Florentine Francesco Guicciardini.
1962 Florence
Architect Giovanni Michelucci presents to Amintore Fanfani the design of the new Church of San Giovanni Battista on the Autostrada del Sole.
Demonstration of the fact that, fortunately, not the whole building collapsed, you will find inside the wooden beams and the paintings on the walls, while outside, the lining of the stone wall that overlooks via dei Ramaglianti, is today still “rusticated” a typical Florentine building technique.
The building can be considered a Janus-two faced, on the one hand preserving the tradition of the Florentine teachers of carpenters of the medieval period, and on the other, an unusual architectural image by rationalist Giovanni Michelucci: One of the greatest Italian contemporary architects of the last century.
Giovanni Michelucci (Pistoia January 2, 1891 – December 31, 1990 Florence) was one of the greatest key figures in the history of the Italian 900’s. He marked the city of Florence with his works , starting from the railway station of Santa Maria Novella in 1932 , and to follow, with projects for the reconstruction of the city after World War II.
Affirming his cultural and expressive capacity with the renewing of the city with different religious architecture of the ’60s and ’70s. The work of St. John the Baptist, known as the “Church Highway ” because of its special location, is one example. And we must own the good fortune to have Michelucci even today, for Florence, to have architectural works worthy of study and attention.