Day: November 6, 2016

The view of Florence from San Mineato al Monte. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

A City With A View: Florence

Heather Cassell
November 6, 2016

In the 1985 film A Room with a View, we are memorably introduced to two of the main characters—both born to England’s Edwardian-era upper class—as they are in the middle of an epic sulk. The pair, played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith, are aggrieved at discovering that the rooms they have been assigned at their pensione do not have the view they felt they were promised.