Unassuming sliding doors usher guests in from a typical busy Florentine street into the airy lobby. The low-lit space is flanked by Ionic columns which support a vaulted ceiling and arched passageways. Sandstone-toned walls and earthy red marble floors blend with brown leather seating and colourful scatter cushions, where international leisure travellers plan their days sightseeing.

Dating from the 19th century, this four-story, cream-and-sage building is accented with wrought-iron window grates holding colorful flower boxes. In the lobby, a soothing ambience pervades, with a pastoral mural, cream-and-rose palette, brocade seating, and rose-marble room dividers. A stairway with elaborate white wrought-iron railings rises through the center. Black-and-white photographs of the Tuscan countryside are displayed in hallways.