A New Hotel Perched in the Hills of Florence

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A Tuscan Hotel in a 16th-Century Former College

When the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi completed the soaring cupola of the Duomo in Florence, Italy, in 1436, it was a feat of engineering that reshaped the city’s skyline. (It’s still the largest brick dome in existence.) From the surrounding hills, its red-tinged peak appears to hover above a sea of terra-cotta rooftops. Guests of Collegio alla Querce, the first Auberge Resorts Collection hotel in Italy, will have that vantage point from a 16th-century former college perched on the cusp of the Tuscan countryside. Designed in collaboration with the Florence-based studio ArchFlorence, the interiors pay homage to both the building’s scholastic past and its idyllic rural surroundings. The hotel’s restaurant, La Gamella — a refined trattoria named after the tin lunchboxes once carried by Florentine schoolchildren — occupies the college’s former dining hall, which in the 16th century was an open-air citrus garden. For aperitivi and nightcaps, there’s Bar Bertelli, dedicated to a former science teacher whose instruments are still on-site. In some guest rooms and suites not already adorned with original frescoes, walls were painted with sweeping landscapes, their hazy greens and ecrus a nod to the bucolic murals of Pompeian villas. Kemper Hyers, the creative director for Auberge Resort Collections, commissioned custom furniture for the 83 rooms and suites from Milan’s Paolo Castelli along with earth-toned ceramics by Studio Ceramico Giusti, which he discovered at the weekly market in Piazza Santo Spirito, just a short walk down the hill. Collegio alla Querce opens March 2. From about $1,600 a night, aubergeresorts.com.

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