The Donati Tower. The tower in Borgo Albizi 11 (XIII century) is incorporated into the Palazzo Donati and rises above the cornice. Presents the typical coating “filaretto stone” and numerous “erri” (storks) that surround the windows. In ancient times was also called Gemma's Tower, because it was thought, incorrectly, that had belonged to Gemma Donati, the wife of Dante Alighieri. The Donati palace, then "Albizi-Tassinari", presents a façade in late-mannerist style, according to the remaking of the beginning of the seventeenth century; in the light plaster facade stands out from the windows with projecting architraves with cornices and a beautiful portal with a semicircular tympanum in which a marble bust of Cosimo II by Chiarissimo Fancelli is inserted. Passed to Tassinari family in the eighteenth century and inside is equipped with a sixteenth-century portico courtyard just on the east side with columns with ionic capitals and round arches: there is a raised garden with a late-seventeenth-century bath and a marble bust of Destiny, work of a Russian sculptor. In the lobby there is a bust of Dante in Impruneta terracotta of the seventeenth century.

Borgo degli Albizi is the continuation of the "Decumanus maximus", the ancient road that crossed from west to east the first Roman Florence. It's a central street, elegant, where you can see beautiful palaces of the oldest Florentine families (the Pazzi, The Albizi, the Donati ...): if you find a gate open, give a "peek" and you'll find beautiful and hidden interiors. The Duomo at 5 minutes, the Uffizi at 7. Santa Croce behind the corner: what a perfect location!