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A ROOM with a VIEW REVISITED Merchant Ivory’S Costume Drama Is Not Only the Most Enjoyable Cinematic Adaptation of EM Forster’S Work – It T Started with a Kiss 0123456789 0123456789 Explorations Florence A ROOM WITH A VIEW REVISITED Merchant Ivory’s costume drama is not only the most enjoyable cinematic adaptation of EM Forster’s work – it t started with a kiss. Julian Sands and Helena For years I’ve wanted to find the very meadow in which Ivory towers longer travellers but tourists, ‘handed about like a parcel also inspired a generation of travellers Bonham Carter were lip-locked in the middle that famous kiss occurred, so the film’s 30th birthday A view across the of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Florentine skyline, to ditch their guidebooks and attempt of a barley field. Seeing Merchant Ivory’s seemed like the perfect moment to grab my 1903 dominated by the Rome,’ as the priestly Mr Eager patronisingly informs A Room With a View for the first time was Baedeker guidebook, download some Puccini and head Helena Bonham Carter’s Lucy Honeychurch, the to experience authentic Italy. To see Duomo (above); a light-bulb moment in my teenage years. off to Florence. I’m joining a long tradition of Brits in Julian Sands and heroine of director James Ivory’s film. what has happened in the three I I fell in love with Florence – and I wasn’t alone. Tuscany. Bewigged young gents came here on the Grand Helena Bonham Like any good holidaymaker, Lucy has curiosity on decades since the 1986 film, Because that film, released three decades ago this Tour to look at art, read Dante and relish local delights Carter in that her side. Swinging her shutters open, she hopes for month, prompted legions of lovelorn optimists to (both savoury and unsavoury). Many stayed, trying to window (left) a view of the Arno, the river that runs right through Gavin Plumley follows in the footsteps follow EM Forster’s eccentric Edwardians to Tuscany swap northern sense for southern sensuality. With the Florence. Sadly, she’s out of luck, seeing nothing of Lucy Honeychurch to Florence and secure ‘south rooms with a view’. Photographs: features; Rex Stock Brooks-Dammann/Gallery Westend61/Susan advent of the railways, the middle class followed, no but a dim alleyway from the fictitious Pensione highlife.ba.com <#R.L#> 0123456789 0123456789 Explorations Florence Bertolini. But the handsome George Emerson Old masters WHERE 2. The St Regis 3. Four Seasons (Julian Sands) and his father intervene, giving Lucy The statue of Dante TO STAY Florence Hotel Firenze and her cousin Charlotte (Maggie Smith) their outside Santa Croce Situated on the This Four Basilica (top); a section rooms with a view. While today’s Hotel degli Orafi, 1. Relais Santa banks of the Arno Seasons outpost of the Giotto fresco, next to the Uffizi, promises that vista, it has to gloss featuring St John Croce in the former overlooks over the fact that the titular scene was filmed in a the Evangelist, inside This elegant hotel Palazzo Giuntini, Giardino della private residence on the other side of the Arno. the Basilica is also home to this branch of the Gherardesca, so Rather than search in vain for the Bertolini or the one of the finest St Regis features you’ll have the (long-closed) Pensione Simi, where Forster stayed on his local Tuscan top-notch service best of the city first Italian trip, I choose the hotel listed at the top of restaurants. and traditional and the best of Baedeker’s 1903 entry on Florence. It’s the St Regis (once British Airways architecture. BA the gardens. BA appropriately named the Grand), which boasted steam offers two nights offers three nights offers three nights heating more than 100 years ago; the list of amenities is from £439pp, from £999pp, from £1,029pp, more extensive now. The frescoes on the walls may not travelling travelling 1 May- travelling be genuine, but the charms and service certainly are. 1 May-31 May*. 31 May*. 1 May-31 May*. And I cannot fault the view from my balcony, which looks over the Santa Rosa weir and upriver to the Ponte Vecchio. Lucy would definitely approve. After a deep night’s sleep, I get dressed, ‘or the better part of the day will be gone,’ as the film reminds me. Befitting the wannabe Florentine, I don some cologne from the nearby Officina Profumo Farmaceutica at Santa Maria Novella, one of the oldest pharmacies in the world, which has been operating since 1221. I amble through the streets and find myself in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata. It is here that the redoubtable Eleanor Lavish (Judi Dench) salutes the statue of Ferdinando Medici, made from Turkish cannons, ‘captured by the Knights of the San Stefano’. But I’m off to another location. Lucy’s Italian education begins at the Santa Croce Basilica, a Franciscan church in which she gets to know the curious Emersons better. ‘Built by faith in the full fervour of medievalism’, this ecclesiastical pantheon of Italian history boasts monuments to Dante, Rossini, Galileo, Michelangelo and Machiavelli. Unlike the crowded church that features in the film, Santa Croce is almost empty the morning I visit. I don’t even have to elbow my way in to see its famous series of Giotto frescoes, featuring what Mr Emerson describes as a ‘fat man’, (more commonly known as St John the Evangelist) ‘shooting into the sky like an air balloon’. Miss Lavish and Miss Bartlett have meanwhile ventured off, ‘two lone females in an unknown city’. Following their lead, I leave the church and ‘simply drift’ down one of the dark alleys that knot together to form the medieval heart of Florence. A sharp burst of light announces the Piazza della Signoria. This central square now boasts a replica of Michelangelo’s David; 0125 the original was moved to the Accademia Gallery in breakfast. with odation 1873. But at the beginning of the 20th century, during Lucy’s visit, she could not have lusted after the hero’s chiselled form as the copy was only put in place in 1910. Uffizi’s Vasari Corridor for a breather by the Arno, Maiano, where the Ristorante Lo Spaccio cooks up Young love Vincigliata, where a curly-haired carriage driver once Otherwise, things are exactly the same. where George mysteriously tells her that ‘something produce from the estate’s 270 hectares. Ivory and his Julian Sands and steered Lucy’s carriage, Francesco pulls up in front of Today, fortunately, there are no street brawls tremendous has happened’. team set up a studio here for 40 days during the spring Helena Bonham two ramshackle cottages overlooking a field. ‘This is to be seen, like the fatal stabbing that occurs in The really momentous events of A Room with a of 1985. Once owned by Englishman John Temple Carter in the film where the picnic took place’, he says, pointing to the (top); sunset over the film. Violence is limited to the artworks in the View don’t occur here, but when the young couple Leader, the Villa di Maiano and the surrounding the Arno and Ponte epicentre of Lucy’s story. neighbouring Loggia dei Lanzi and the Uffizi, and the rest of the Pensione Bertolini’s motley crew acreage have been in the hands of Count Francesco Santa Trinita My heart is full. I have seen everything. Well, apart though its friezes, frescoes and figurines, showing decide to picnic up in the hills. As Miss Lavish insists, Miari Fulcis’s family since 1917. Today, as well as from that room with a view. But then, as a final present, endless pillage and crucifixions, prove violent it is ‘by going off the track that you get to know the working the extensive farmland, Francesco’s family Francesco tells me I can visit that, too. Not to see enough for me. Culture can take its toll in Florence, country… there one meets the Italians unspoiled: harvests the olives, tends the botanical garden and the elusive view, but the room itself, as the Villa di as Forster’s literary forerunner Stendhal discovered. in all their simplicity and charm’. Maiano, nestled offers agrotourism in farmhouses and apartments. Maiano provided interiors for the Pensione Bertolini. So acute were the French sightseers’ symptoms between Fiesole and Settignano, three miles north Francesco was here 30 years ago when the filming Untouched for decades, its bedrooms, piano room that a Florentine psychiatrist named the resulting of the Piazza del Duomo, is the perfect destination. took place, including that famous kiss, so when he offers and dining hall – now a wedding venue – are just psychosomatic dizziness and confusion Stendhal Having failed to grab my own picnic from the to take me on a tour I wolf down my rocket gnocchi and as Merchant Ivory left them 30 years ago. Even the Syndrome. Keen to avoid it, I follow Lucy down the Mercato Centrale, I make my way to the Fattoria di *Includes Euro Traveller return flights from London Gatwick and accomm Book by 30 April. For reservations visit ba.com/florence or call 0344 493 Photographs: © imageBROKER/Alamy Stock Photo; Ronald Grant Photo Archive/Alamy Stock History World © Gallery Stock; Archive; jump into his four-by-four. Having ascended the Via windows are recognisable, since one of them was <#L.R#> highlife.ba.com highlife.ba.com <#R.L#> Explorations LA’s improv scene A ROOM WITH A VIEW: THEN AND NOW JULIAN SANDS Making room Then Handsome leading man, Clockwise from above: fresh from The Killing Fields, the steps leading up to prone to nude bathing, destined San Miniato al Monte; Judi Dench, Maggie for success. Smith and Helena Now Crumpled character actor, Bonham Carter in the fresh from Gotham, in which he film’s fateful picnic scene plays Dr Crane, prone to serial a 1903 Baedeker guide killing, destined for a fall.
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