The library cinema that you cannot miss in your visit to Florence

For literature lovers, visiting bookstores around the world is a mandatory stop that often gives great surprises, with some in historical buildings or with a peculiar touch behind them, either because of its history or for something particular.

That is what happens with Giunti Odeona different bookstore in the city of Florence, in Italy, and that is a mandatory point for cultural tourism, being a theater converted into a book store, but has maintained its cinema, and also includes a restaurant cafeteria.

A historical ‘pazzo’ of Florencia converted in film library

Giunti Odeon is a unique bookstore cinema In the center of the city of Florencespecifically in the Piazza Degli Strozzi, a few meters from the famous Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore or the busy Piazza della Signoria, which has reopened its doors this November in a historical enclave such as the Palazzo dello Stronzzino.

A historic building of the fifteenth century that was the residence of the family Strozziof 1,500 square meters, which became theater in the 1920s and that saw between its walls to Louis Armstrongand that later it was an original subtitled cinema, which would close in 2022.

This closure caused a movement of the Florentine cultural sector that managed to recover this place, specifically through the editorial with local Giunti origin, which slightly modified the old cinema to turn it into a bookstore, but maintaining the large screen and the seats of the upper floor .

When to visit the cinema library Giunti Odeon

In fact, starting at 9 pm every day, films are projected in original version, both repositions and current feature films, while the bookstore, on the lower floor, opens from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and the restaurant cafeteria with a Broader schedule from 8:30 to midnight.

This special character of Giunti Odeon, not only for his beautiful Art Deco architecture That it has remained in its reform, being a cinema, bookstore, cafeteria and a cultural center, has made it a usual visit for tourists in Florence, in addition to being a propitious place for teleworking at the tables distributed on the sides.