During this period, significant changes in the tastes and needs of travellers occurred and are reflected in Grand Tour travel literature. With the aim of identifying different building types, this work surveys the architecture of accommodations in Tuscany, from the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century. With this in mind, I look at the development of two types of accommodations in particular that are representative of Tuscany: coaching inns, which often replaced earlier medieval inns and were the focal point of the Grand Duchy’s accommodation system for travellers and city hotels, rooms usually located inside ancient, privately owned palaces converted to accommodate visitors. This work proposes an analysis of the architectural properties of those accommodation facilities as well as their environmental and historical contexts and the transformations they have undergone through time. Buildings used as paid accommodation facilities such as inns, hotels, and guest houses were utilitarian buildings that reflected the tastes of their time and the customs and rituals related to travel, and thus had particular architectural features. This article investigates the architecture of different types of accommodations in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany between the 17th and early 19th centuries.
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