Giunti Odeon
An Art Deco cinema inside a Renaissance palazzo, now half bookshop and half screening room, showing films in their original language.
- Area
- Duomo
- Address
- Piazza degli Strozzi
- Opened as a cinema
- 1922
- Reopened
- November 2023, as bookshop and cinema
- Books
- Around twenty five thousand titles
- Checked
- August 2026
- Price
- €€
- Go for
- A 1922 cinema inside a Renaissance palazzo, now a bookshop as well, where you can sit under a stained glass dome for as long as you like.
- Skip if
- You want a working cafe with fast service. It is a reading room first.
What everybody agrees on
Read across public reviews on Google and TripAdvisor plus Italian press coverage of the reopening in September 2026.
- Nearly all
The room does the work. A domed ceiling of coloured glass, gilded stucco, and cinema seats still in place.
- Most
Films still run in their original language with Italian subtitles, which is rare in Florence.
- Most
Nobody moves you along. People sit for hours in the upper gallery, and reviewers mention this specifically.
- Often
There is a good English language section, which matters if you have run out of something to read.
- Some
The cafe is secondary to the room. Come for the space rather than the coffee.
What to order
Go up to the gallery rather than sitting on the ground floor. That is where the ceiling is closest and where nobody will interrupt you.
Before you go
- Getting there
- Piazza degli Strozzi, five minutes from Piazza della Repubblica.
- Best for
- A wet afternoon, or the hottest hours of a July day.
- Films
- Check the programme; original language screenings are not every night.
The Odeon opened as a cinema in 1922 inside Palazzo dello Strozzino, under a domed ceiling of coloured glass with gilded stucco. It ran for close to a century, then reopened in November 2023 as a bookshop and cinema together.
Around twenty five thousand titles including originals in English, a cafe with a wine window, and the old hall still screening films in their original language with Italian subtitles. During the day the upper gallery is open with seating and nobody hurries you out.
Piazza degli Strozzi, five minutes on foot from Piazza della Repubblica.