Perched on the hillside above Fiesole where the cypress-lined lanes of the Florentine hills give way to one of the city's most commanding panoramas, the fifteenth-century Villa Salviati was converted into Il Salviatino and opened in 2009 after an extensive restoration that preserved its Renaissance bones while threading contemporary comfort through rooms that have housed cardinals, Medici allies, and Romantic-era Grand Tourists. The five-storey whitewashed facade, articulated with pietra serena string courses and arched loggia windows on the piano nobile, rises above a sequence of formal Italian gardens — box-hedged parterres planted with lemon trees in terracotta pots, a shallow fountain pool, and stone-edged terraces stepped down toward Florence — a geometry that remains remarkably intact. Inside, the interiors mix periods and registers with the confident eclecticism of a private house that has accumulated rather than decorated. The library is lined in dark walnut shelving backed in deep teal, leather Chesterfield sofas sharing the floor with velvet armchairs in burgundy and cobalt against an Oushak rug. Guest rooms carry individual characters: one suite preserves grisaille trompe-l'oeil drapery murals in blush and grey across its full height walls, while another is washed in Veronese green with parquet underfoot and framed botanical prints above a bed dressed in matching silk. The long lap pool, set lower in the garden among hedged terraces and shaded by umbrella pines, frames the Tuscan hillside beyond in every direction.

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