Collegio alla Querce, Auberge Resorts Assortment Opens in Florence

• The 83-room Collegio alla Querce, Auberge Resorts Assortment, has 4 eating places and bars, a spa, an out of doors pool, and delightful gardens.
• The lodge is housed in a former 18th-century boarding college positioned lower than two miles from Florence’s historic Piazza del Duomo.
• Friends of the property can e book particular experiences and excursions, reminiscent of a personal viewing of Michelangelo’s “David” in Florence’s Accademia Gallery.

Auberge Resorts Assortment opened its first lodge in Italy yesterday, on March 2: Collegio alla Querce in Florence. 

The 83-room lodge, which was a personal college within the 1800s, is a few mile and a half from Florence’s famed Duomo. It has 4 eating places and bars, gorgeous gardens, an out of doors pool, and over-the-top Grand Suites as giant as 2,292 sq. ft. A room that was as soon as the headmaster’s workplace is now Bar Bertelli, a night cocktail-and-cigars spot. The Nineteenth-century chapel has been restored and is an ideal wedding ceremony venue.

“You could have rooms that actually look out on the Duomo, and then you definately flip round and your window on the opposite aspect of the room appears out on vineyards and olive bushes,” says Christian Clerc, the CEO of Auberge Resorts Assortment, in an unique interview with Journey + Leisure.

“Coming to Collegio will really feel like retiring to your little bubble the place you continue to really feel related with town, however you may sit by the pool or get a spa remedy,” Clerc provides.

Collegio’s La Gamella restaurant, with veranda and backyard seating, will serve comforting Italian fare. “On the restaurant’s coronary heart is Cicchetti, an open kitchen, the place company can get pleasure from an aperitivo or take a cooking class—it feels a bit like stepping right into a nonna’s kitchen,” says Lorenzo Maraviglia, the lodge’s common supervisor. There’s additionally all-day eating at Conservatorio restaurant and poolside Café Focolare, which serves pizza and Florentine panini.

The bars and eating places intention to cater to locals as a lot as lodge company and worldwide vacationers.
“We need to be certain that our resorts are additionally related for the locals—and what higher approach to carry the native tradition into the lodge than to carry locals in for lunch and for dinner?” Clerc says.

The property’s spa, Aelia, can be rooted in Tuscan therapeutic practices, with remedies incorporating olive oil, lemon, and herbs. The model partnered with Furtuna Pores and skin, which sources the substances for its skincare merchandise from a farm in Sicily.

Auberge Resorts Assortment, owned by The Friedkin Group, is thought for immersing company within the artwork and tradition surrounding every of its 30 resorts and resorts—so opening in one in all Europe’s artwork capitals seems like a pure subsequent step. “One among Collegio’s most extraordinary choices is an unique after-hours tour of the Accademia Gallery, permitting company a uncommon non-public viewing of Michelangelo’s David,” Maraviglia says. “Our knowledgeable guides lead a personal tour by way of the gallery’s assortment of Renaissance sculptures and work.”
Collegio alla Querce is the most recent in a slew of thrilling European lodge openings for Auberge Resorts Assortment. Prior to now 5 years, the model has guess huge on American resorts—not too long ago opening The Dunlin in South Carolina and The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern in central California. 

“Individuals have such an extended love story with Europe, that for us, it was the logical subsequent step,” Clerc says in regards to the European enlargement.

Springboarding off the longstanding success of Grace Lodge, Auberge Resorts Assortment, in Santorini—a T+L reader favourite—and not too long ago opened Domaine Des Etangs in Massignac, France, the luxurious model has its sights set not solely on Florence this yr but additionally on London, the place it’s going to open Cambridge Home by the top of 2025.

You possibly can e book a keep on the newly opened Collegio alla Querce, Auberge Resorts Assortment, at aubergeresorts.com. Doubles from $1,678.