Le Ballet de l'Acier

The Saxon Inn is located just off the Doragrossa near the Palazzo di Torino. The inn, stables, kitchen, storehouses, and a small brewhouse surround a cobbled courtyard; access is through a stout oak gate. On the ground floor is the tile-floored common room with a bar, a taproom, and a private dining room; on the first floor is a common sleeping area and four private rooms, and the second includes the quarters for the owner’s family along with two more private rooms. The attic houses the servants; equerries stay in the stables.

Furnishings are wood with straw cushions, and straw mattresses with woolen blankets are found in the common sleeping room; the private rooms have linen sheets and down-filled comforters.

The Saxon Inn is favored by merchants and bureaucrats visting the ducal capital. Card games are a popular activity in the common room, but the innkeeper does not permit dice, believing it attracts an unwholesome element.