Via della Scala, 6 is the prestigious address of the  Hotel Palazzo dal Borgo, which is a 1480  Renaissance palace in Florence that once belonged to the Medici dal Borgo family, and is one of the city’s historic monuments.

The fact that it is number 6 means that it is very close to the Church  dof Santa Maria Novella as  Via della Scala starts from the square on which this important Florentine monument stands.   

And so a good way to start  to get to know the city is to begin with Via della Scala , one of Florence’s historic streets which is called after the former hospital of Santa Maria della Scala founded in 1313.

The first part of Via della Scala , the part close to the hotel, has many former religious and charity  complexes as well as  buildings that were restored in the 19th-century.    

The right-hand side of the street mostly consists of the back of the Convent of Santa Maria Novella: at number  16 we find the l’Antica Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, one of the oldest pharmacies in the world which is visited by millions of people every year.

Every corner of Via della Scala, on which the hotel  stands, tells  of the glorious history of  Florence:   it is still possible to admire the  Palazzo Venturi-Ginori which is adjcent to the Orti Oricellari, then the façade of the deconsecrated Church of San Jacopo di Ripoli and the Corsini Garden which has a handsome portal and gate.