We welcome guests from all over the world with the idea that Florence is a living city of art: not only a guardian of the past, but also a place of the present and the future.
My mission is to make you feel at home, so that you will live the city like a local, not a tourist.
That is why I love sharing not only the most famous places, but also hidden corners, gardens, restaurants, routes and small suggestions for experiencing Florence in a more authentic way.
I live this city with attention, energy, and curiosity. I love walking, dancing, reading, being amazed by beauty, spending time with people and creating connections.
Together with Giulio, we are drawn to everything that has a soul: artists, places with character, workshops, sincere experiences and those details that make a stay more personal, simple, and memorable.
I am looking forward to welcoming you and helping you experience Florence through my eyes.
Via de’ Rustici, esempio perfetto di “basso profilo fiorentino”, custodisce tra le sue pieghe tesori poco noti agli itinerari turistici. Già detta via de’ Peruzzi, dal nome dei potenti banchieri che vi costruirono i primi palazzi cancellando quasi del tutto le preesistenze altomedievali (di cui resta traccia al civico 1), la strada deve l’attuale nome alla famiglia Rustici, casato dal prestigioso passato ma segnato da una progressiva dispersione politica.
Tra gli edifici più significativi si distingue Casa Mannini al civico 3, segnalata da Bargellini e Guarnieri come “malamente restaurata”, ma ancora leggibile nella sua struttura originaria tardo-quattrocentesca. L’edificio nacque dalla riunificazione di due case-corti mercantili medievali appartenenti ai Mannini e fu ristrutturato tra la fine del Quattrocento e il secolo successivo; nel Seicento risulta proprietà dei Della Vecchia. La facciata conserva finestre ad arco a tutto sesto con cornici in bozze piane martellinate e un’elegante cornice marcapiano.
Accanto si susseguono palazzi nobili: il Visconti di Modrone, esempio cinquecentesco; il secondo palazzo Peruzzi, con interventi settecenteschi; il Venerosi-Pesciolini, trasformato nel Settecento; e il cinquecentesco Borgianni. Un tempo, all’angolo con piazza dei Peruzzi, sorgeva anche la Loggia dei Peruzzi.
La via fu cara a Marco di Bartolommeo de’ Rustici, orafo e disegnatore delle facciate delle chiese fiorentine, che al ritorno dalla Terrasanta nel 1447 la celebrò come un paradiso ritrovato. Diversa la sorte del suo parente Giovan Francesco Rustici che, dopo l’Assedio di Firenze, trovò la zona devastata e scelse l’esilio. Eppure, nonostante le ferite del tempo, via de’ Rustici conserva ancora oggi il suo segreto incanto.
At CasaSafer, we believe in hospitality made of wellbeing, attention, and respect for the environment. We personally furnish the apartments, carefully choose materials and products, and adopt practical solutions designed to limit waste and optimise consumption and energy use. Recycling and separate waste collection are also part of this vision. It is an idea of hospitality that we ask our guests to share, through small daily gestures of care and attention.
To us, sustainability also means: ensuring that people and the space that surrounds them thrive together.
CasaSafer has its roots in a family history that has been intertwined with Casa Mannini for generations and keeps its memory alive. Located on Via dei Rustici, in the heart of Florence, this building has spanned centuries, preserving within its very structure the traces of time, the transformations it has undergone, and the lives of those who have lived there since the 15th century.
Florence, 1966 – Among mud and rubble, people at work clearing the streets after the flood: a moment of effort and solidarity in the rebirth of the city.
The name CasaSafer carries with it a precise memory: S.A.F.E.R. was the family’s building materials company, which operated in these very same spaces for decades. Today, that name is back, in the same place, as a symbol of continuity and belonging.
CasaSafer is our way of keeping this heritage alive: not only welcoming guests, but also preserving and sharing the deep character of a home and of the history that runs through it.