Room 414, Hotel degli Orafi, Florence; 39-055-26622; www.hoteldegliorafi.it. There are 42 rooms; doubles range from $360 to $570. Room 414, the Room with a View Suite, is $570.
This quintessential view of the Arno River and the Ponte Vecchio has both cinematic and aesthetic merit. In the evocative movie A Room with a View, shot 20 years ago, this vista triggers a serendipitous chain of events that ultimately reunites the heroine, Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter), and the freethinking George Emerson (Julian Sands) in Florence—countries and conquests later. The Hotel degli Orafi, which reopened in 2002 after repairs necessitated by the 1993 bombing of the neighboring Uffizi Gallery, was one of three buildings cast as the fictional Pensione Bertolini in the movie version of E. M. Forster's 1908 novel. The hotel was the location for what a dismayed Miss Bartlett (Lucy's traveling companion, played by Maggie Smith) refers to as a "north room, looking into a courtyard." Room 414, though not shown in the film, is clearly made for the title role—as well as a model in both name and function for this column.If You Liked This Article...
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