Casa per la Pace is a space of hospitality and dialogue in which the members of Pax Christi, as well as people coming from other groups, can meet together to live moments of spirituality and prayer or experiences on peace and nonviolence. A place where is possible to enjoy a relaxed atmosphere and the beauty of the landscape. The house also welcomes those who need a place to stay for a short stop or to visit the area around (the town of Florence is very closed).

Among other things, Pax Christi organizes workshops on nonviolence education, on nonviolent resolution of conflicts, economy, justice, and environmental protection.

Casa per la Pace wants to be a project that "tries to give substance to an ancient dream of Pax Christi, a concrete place to repair or build our own tents; an ideal meeting spot whose features will help us to make world peace a stable inhabitant of the earth" (Don Tonino Bello).  

The property extends over a covered area of about 600 square meters. The interiors have interesting large and bright halls enriched with notable fireplaces, rooms with coffered, ceilings, vaults and cross vaults.

Four halls and a large library room can easily host seminars, conferences, workshops, concerts, but also anniversaries and family events.

Guests are welcomed in a warm and familiar ambience. They can stay in different kind of rooms: single, double and triple rooms with internal services; quadruple rooms and large dormitories with shared facilities.

The building is completed by a double room  (also available for single use) for disabled people with bathroom inside (according to the law). A typical Tuscan-style apartment, equipped with every comfort and with a beautiful view of the interior garden, allow families who desire absolute tranquillity to enjoy a cosy reserved space.

Those who wish to have moments of reflection and prayer during their stay can gather in peace in our chapel inside the House.

Attached to the House there is a vast Italian hanging garden (3.000 square meters) and a ground (5.700 square meters) partly planted with olive groves and orchard and partly as lawn. 

A large private indoor car park offers guest the chance of reaching the property by their own means of transport.

All contributions from visitors and guests are intended to support the initiatives promoted by Pax Christi.

The word peace is among the most used in everyday language to highlight an absence of negative conditions, conflicts or the acceptance of situations that require calm and patience. Yet when it comes to the topic of Peace, it seems the most abstract, the most difficult to deal with completely.

Peace, the lack of any kind of conflict, is a necessary condition for human beings to be able to "think well" and to think themselves inside the World and it is precisely in this that the House offers an ideal refuge. It "puts peace" in hearts at first sight and it has a place in Creation without almost changing it.

Casa goes unnoticed, with its discreet beauty, on the slopes of the Florentine countryside. It offers its guests food prepared with local products. Whenever possible, it offers the fruits of its own plots cultivated according to tradition.

In order to have hot water, the house uses solar panels and together with professionals in the sector, tries to improve in the field clean energy. In its management, the staff pay attention to the recycling of waste, the containment of water use, the reduction of waste in space heating, to the use of not aggressive effective and products in cleaning.

The house promotes socialization. In these days, of course, we preserve the necessary "personal distancing" that protects everyone from any infections, as asked by current health requirements. Despite this, we generally believe that our world is already affected by too much social distancing and that it is precisely in society, in a good and peaceful relationship between people that the numerous problems of the world find solutions. From this conviction our motto comes: human closeness completes itself in the conviviality of differences.

This is what we think being a part of the Creation means: to offer a tent, a recognizable but discreet shelter for those who want to find some peace. 

Reaching Casa per la Pase is easy!

By car: Via Quintole per le Rose that climbs the Baruffi hill originates on the Cassia state road just a short distance from the Impruneta exit of the A1 motorway (the Autostrada del Sole).

Once you leave the highway, you must proceed in the direction of Florence (third exit of the roundabout) taking Via Cassia for a few dozen meters and then turning right on Via di Quintole. Always keeping to the right, after about a kilometer, you find yourself in front of the entrance gate of the Casa per la Pace. The car can be parked inside the property in a comfortable and safe parking.

By public transport: from Florence Airport you can take the tramway, line T2 Vespucci, to the S. Maria Novella railway station in the centre of Florence, and then take line 37 of the ATAF buses (going up to the terminus of the station Orti Oricellari - Trattoria dell'Oste). The ticket required for the ride costs € 1.50 cents and can be purchased in tobacconists or authorized dealers (many newsstands for example). It can also be purchased on board, asking the driver for € 2.50.

It is also possible to purchase the ticket via SMS - with the text "ATAF" - at number 4880105, waiting for the confirmation message before boarding. The digital ticket costs € 1.80.

The journey by bus from Florence to Casa per la Pace takes about half an hour, the stop is "Le Rose".

A short but uphill walk of about a kilometer can allow you to reach the House, through a fascinating path, for some meters the same of the ancient Via Romea, surrounded by nature and history (on the road it is possible admire the small Church of San Lorenzo alle Rose which houses an altar table by the Giotto master Taddeo Gaddi)