History, Traditions, Culture
Osteria Toscanella is located in the heart of Florence, at Via Toscanella 36/R, a stone's throw from Palazzo Pitti and Ponte Vecchio.
Here, within the walls of a 14th-century hall, history meets taste in an intimate and evocative atmosphere.
It's not just a restaurant, but a place that preserves a precious legacy: that of a neighborhood where art, culture, and daily life have been intertwined for centuries.
The expertly restored architecture tells the story of the most authentic Florence, one that still today vibrates with Renaissance beauty and popular spirit.
And then it is said that Boccaccio and Christopher Columbus...
Chronicles tell that Giovanni Boccaccio, the great author of the Decameron, was born in these very rooms in 1313.
The product of an illegitimate relationship between his father, the merchant Boccaccino di Chelino, and a woman of lower social class, he was recognized and raised by his father in Florence.
But he is not the only character to link his life to the rooms of the Osteria Toscanella:
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, scientist, mathematician and astronomer, friend of Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti, also worked here.
It is said that it was Toscanelli who drew the map used by Christopher Columbus to reach the Americas.
A story that intertwines science, discovery and Florentine genius.
Each dish is a bridge between past and present, a tribute to the history of Florence that still lives on at our tables today.
