Around the corner from Ponte Santa Trinità, Chimney Sweep is in a great location for seeing the centre of Florence. Despite being set over three levels, it’s quite small, but while the kitchen is a little underwhelming, the rest of the house feels pleasantly cosy. Unusually, one of our favourite parts of the home is the single room. What used to be an enormous stone fireplace has been converted into a writing nook, and it feels like a wonderful place to set up shop with a laptop and get to work on your novel.


Home truths:
*You'll have to take a steep staircase to the third floor, and then there are more stairs inside the flat
*The ceiling upstairs is very low
*When we visited, we weren't able to test the speed of the wi-fi
*There's no real oven, just a microwave