Helvetia & Bristol

Florence, Italy. Located in the historic centre of Florence, a few steps from Palazzo Strozzi.

Helvetia & BristolFlorence, Italy

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Address: Helvetia & Bristol Firenze – Starhotels Collezione
Via dei Pescioni 2
50123 Florence
Italy
Telephone: +39 055 26651
Official website: collezione.starhotels.com
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Rooms and suites across the historic Helvetia building and the Bristol wing, whose 25 rooms and suites were designed by Anouska Hempel.
Cibrèo restaurant, the Liberty-style Winter Garden and breakfast by pastry chef Iginio Massari.
LA SPA Helvetia & Bristol, announced on a site once occupied by ancient Roman baths, plus meeting and event spaces.
Located in the historic centre of Florence, a few steps from Palazzo Strozzi.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

28 June 1883
According to Florence's register of historic businesses, Swiss hotelier Giacomo Mosca founds the hotel.
1894 – 1895
The present building, in a sober neo-Cinquecento style, rises on the site of demolished Vecchietti houses; a shield on the façade bears the date 1894.
c. 1899
The reading room becomes a Liberty-style winter garden beneath an iron and coloured-glass canopy.
Belle Époque
Around the turn of the century, guests include John Singer Sargent, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, Eugenio Montale, Enrico Fermi, Igor Stravinsky, Giorgio de Chirico and Bertrand Russell; Eleonora Duse lives here for long periods.
1926
The Biondi brothers' foundry makes the griffin-shaped corner lantern, modelled on the ironwork of Palazzo Strozzi.
1987
After nearly a century, the Mosca family sells the hotel to Charming Hotels.
1989
The hotel reopens after two years of restoration.
2016
Starhotels buys the hotel; by 2019 the interiors are entirely redesigned by Genius Loci Architettura and the façades restored.
2019 – 2020
The hotel extends into the neighbouring former Banco di Roma palazzo, with interiors by Anouska Hempel.
2021
An Iginio Massari pastry shop opens on the ground floor facing Via de' Vecchietti.
2025
Following its expansion and renovation, the hotel welcomes guests again with 25 new Hempel-designed rooms and suites in the Bristol wing.