L’Ospitale delle rifiorenze – “The Hostel of Re-Flowerings” – is a project of the non governmental organisation Mani Tese Firenze, in collaboration with the municipality of Florence and with the help of its partners, the Cultural Foundation of the Ethical Bank (Fondazione culturale responsabilità etica), Caritas, the cooperative Riciclaggio e Solidarietà and the Educatorio di Fuligno institute. 

During the cold months of the year, the Carmine complex, which has been restored in the occasion of the Jubilee 2000, offers hospitality to the homeless; but from April until October, it transforms completely: it becomes a centre of national and international volunteering.

And it becomes the centre of a new kind of tourism which is not only following a more aware and more respectful path, but which is also in search of the Other Florence, the real Florence with its warm solidarity.