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A 19th-century villa on Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio, the Florentine home of the late Amedeo Ottaviani — opened as a five-star private residence
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Need To Know
- Rooms and suites across the original 19th-century villa, including Double Junior Suites
- Children: welcome
- Our favourite rooms: the Double Junior Suites on the upper floors with terrace access — Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio framing in one direction, the private garden courtyard in the other. The terrace-facing rooms are what the property is for. Avoid the smaller standard doubles in the building's interior; the property's quietness and garden access don't reach those rooms.
- No spa, pool, or fitness centre — the property is genuinely classic-villa hospitality, not full-resort facilities
- Restaurant closed annually from 4-25 August (Sunday and Monday evenings reserved for hotel guests only)
Check in - Check out
- Check in from 14:00
- Check out before 12:00
We Love
- Breakfast in the inner garden courtyard under the magnolia trees — Florence quietness rare in any city-centre hotel
- The Tito Chini stained-glass windows in the Veranda Room — original early-twentieth-century work by the nephew of Italian decorative master Galileo Chini
- Chef Claudio Lopopolo's Relais Le Jardin tasting menus in the Veranda Room — Tuscan tradition reinterpreted, Tuesday-Saturday dinners
- Il Salotto Lounge Bar for the late espresso or the proper aperitivo — built around the residential Italian-living-room atmosphere
- The Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio location — leafy aristocratic square ten minutes from the Duomo, Sant'Ambrogio market two streets away
Key Features
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Location
Address
Piazza Massimo D’Azeglio 3, 50121 Florence, Italy
Travel Info
25 min by car from Florence Airport (FLR). 10 min by taxi from Santa Maria Novella Station. Hotel parking on request — central Florence is heavily ZTL-restricted. Walking distance to Duomo (10 min), Santa Croce (5 min), Sant'Ambrogio market (2 min).
Last Updated: 2026-05-13
Expert Review
Origins
Hotel Regency occupies a nineteenth-century villa on the Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio — originally a noble residence in one of Florence's most discreet aristocratic squares. The villa was the personal Florentine residence of the late Amedeo Ottaviani, whose second residence was Hotel Lord Byron in Rome; the two operate together as a family-run pair of private homes opened to guests. Much of the original architecture survives intact: the arched windows, wrought-iron balconies, the inner garden courtyard, and the Veranda Room's stained-glass windows by Tito Chini — nephew of the major Italian Art Nouveau decorator Galileo Chini and one of the inheritors of the family workshop.
Top Secret
The Veranda Room's stained-glass windows are not signposted but worth asking about — the Chini workshop's work survives in only a handful of Florence buildings, and the Hotel Regency examples are among the better-preserved.
The Review
Hotel Regency is the Florence stay for travellers who want the city quiet. The Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio sits four streets east of the Sant'Ambrogio market and ten minutes' walk north of Santa Croce — a leafy nineteenth-century square that the day-tripper routes don't reach. The villa was painstakingly restored by Amedeo Ottaviani as his personal Florentine residence and operates with the rhythm of a family home that happens to take guests: small front desk, no spa, no pool, no fitness centre, but a private garden courtyard for breakfast under magnolia trees and a dining room that doubles as the most under-rated restaurant in the Santa Croce quarter.
The interior register is genuinely aristocratic rather than aspirationally so. Polished parquet, period furniture, the Tito Chini stained-glass windows in the Veranda Room, deep colours in the rooms above. Suites face either the inner courtyard or the Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio itself; the courtyard-facing rooms have terraces and absolute quiet, while the piazza-facing rooms catch the morning light off the square's plane trees.
Relais Le Jardin under Chef Claudio Lopopolo is the property's strongest single asset after the location. The Fine Dining tasting menus run Tuesday to Saturday evenings in the Veranda Room with Tito Chini's stained glass overhead; the Bistrot menu covers lunches and the more relaxed weekday evenings in the Zodiaco Room. The cooking is Tuscan in foundation — the bistecca done properly, the primi rotating with the seasons — with the contemporary touches landing on technique rather than fusion.
For travellers who want Florence the way it was before the day-trip volume took over, Hotel Regency earns the premium. The Duomo and the Uffizi are ten minutes' walk; the Sant'Ambrogio market is two; the centre is the destination, not the base.
