Villa San Michele

Name: Villa San Michele
Address: Via Doccia 4,, 50014 Fiesole, Fiesole, Italy
Telephone: +800 745 8883

Fiesole, Italy

Villa San MicheleFiesole, Italy

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Practical information

There are 21 rooms and 25 suites.
Restaurant where cooks the famous Chef Attilio di Fabrizio.
Business center, a jogging path, some meetings & events rooms, a school of cookery and fitness center.
Villa San Michele was an old monastery between the trees and the terrace with a panoramic view of Florence city.

8 dates from the archives of Grand Hotels of the World.

1500 around
Construction of the present building, the façade is attributed to Michelangelo. The monastery is run by the Franciscans.
1600
Building is enlared and renovated by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Davanzati.
1808
Monastic orders all over Italy, including Villa San Michele were dissolved by the French Emperor Napoleon.
1817
Vila San Michele becomes a Monastery again, but most of its treasures have been dispersed.
1900
Acquisition of the Villa by Henry White Cannon from New York. The Villa and the gardens are restored in a Victorian styla. Glasshouses arre added to the gardens.
1950
Acquisition by Monsieur Lucien Tessier as a private residence.
1952 around
Due to the high cost to upkeep the property, Lucien Tessier opens the Villa opens as an Hotel.
1982
Acquisition of the Villa by Orient Express Hotels.