Arty kitsch halfway to the Duomo

The Hotel Abaco, an inexpensive hotel in Florence, Italy

Hotel Abaco
Bruno, a gregarious Calabrese, has to be the hardest-working hotelier in Florence. He rents a series of cozy, trippy rooms in a 15th-century palazzo (one room even has a stone fireplace) halfway between the train station and the cathedral.

Each room is decorated in honor of a different Renaissance artist; a life-sized reproduction of one of the artists works hangs on the wall and its palette informs the particular combo of supersaturated colors used to paint the walls and make up the heavy drapes and half-testers over the beds.

Via dei Banchi 1, off Via de' Panzani

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