From August 2016 Villa La Fonte hosts the Department of Economics.
The 15th century villa was originally owned by the chancellor of the Florentine Republic, Leonardo Bruni, before passing to other Italian families through the generations.
It was then converted into the Hotel della Gran Bretagna, catering for the British tourists that flocked to Florence in the 19th century, before being bought by the Smith family who built their wealth on the railways.