Italy Luxury Hotels

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it is with great pleasure that we welcome you through the pages of “Luxury Accommodation in Italy”, the finest selection of luxury hotels in Italy, historical estates, country manors and, in some rare but excellent cases, bed and breakfast accommodation you can choose among to plan your deluxe stay in our peninsula.

Browsing through this website you will be delighted by the sight of the very best Italy has to offer you: a historic manor in Veneto, a castle in Chianti, a charming hotel in the Dolomites or in Sicily, a breathtaking suite in Rome or Sorrento. All of them have been selected with utmost care according to strict criteria: quality, beauty, class, comfort, impeccable service. In a word: luxury.

Managing the Italia Lodging website we have been dealing with many different kinds of accommodation over the years, and quality has always been the main keyword in the selection of lodgings to be listed. As the overall level of hotels and country inns grew higher and higher, we soon realised that some of them were somewhat special and tended to stand out both aesthetically and qualitatively: beyond high standards, they had “personality”. They were not simply farm houses or standard hotels, so we thought they deserved particular attention and should be promoted separately in a website that could exalt all their charm and style.

“Luxury Accommodation in Italy” was devised following the exalting idea of creating a “luxury only” network, a garland of incomparable pearls all over Italy which are so different form each other yet all so fascinating, so gorgeous, so luxurious. Just a few selected places, all bookable on-line, for the most demanding clients who plan to spend an exclusive stay in Italy filling their eyes with beauty and wrapping themselves in a soft blanket of comfort, treat and class.

Take your time, have a look. Choosing your destination is not going to be an easy task.

http://www.luxury-accommodation-italy.com/

A small charming hotel in Rome, in the heart of Trastevere

Residenza Santa Maria is located in Trastevere, the most ancient and characteristic area in the heart of Rome. This little Hotel was inaugurated in June 2007 after a careful and charming restructuring process. Thanks to its enviable position in the heart of the Eternal City, only a few steps from the beautiful Santa Maria in Trastevere square, guests can easily reach charming and romantic sites like Campo de' Fiori, Navona square, the Pantheon and Spanish Steps, Trevi fountain and the Roman Forum and Coliseum with just a relaxing stroll trough a maze of fascinating medieval streets.

The six fully furnished rooms are at ground level and they are very quiet. Each room is furnished with simple, but elegant oak wood furniture and wooden ceilings.

They have all the modern amenities: air conditioning, mini bar, safe, satellite LCD television, telephone, and bathroom with bath or shower, plus hair-dryer. All the rooms are no-smoking.

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A charming new bed and breakfast in Rome

Located in the heart of Trastevere district, the most charming area of Rome, in a perfect position to reach walking each site of interest of the city, "Your Nest in Rome" bed and breakfast is a small jewel of refinement, care of details, attentions and comfort. Located on the 4th floor of a nice completely restored old building (equipped with elevator), this bed and breakfast offers all the comforts and services of a high quality hotel but at the rates of a good bed and breakfast.

At "Your nest in Rome" all the rooms are bright, quiet, finely furnished and equipped with: private en-suite bathroom, large LCD satellite TV, parquet flooring, mini-bar, air-conditioning, heating system, safety box.

Besides the comforts of a nice three stars hotel, this accommodation offers all the charm, warmth and welcoming atmosphere of a family run bed and breakfast. Your hosts, always available, will be at your disposal for information, tips, and advices which will be very useful during your stay in Rome.

The rich buffet breakfast (an English breakfast which rarely you can find at B&Bs in Rome) is served in the nice breakfast room or else, if guests prefer, directly in their rooms.

Despite the central location in an alive area of Rome, as it is Trastevere, all the rooms are quiet and facing an inner court. The innkeepers at "Your Nest in Rome" are waiting for you to let you enjoy Rome and Trastevere with maximum in quaint of comfort, care of details, service and availability.

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Anatolia lands in Rome

A treasure-packed new exhibition in Rome tells the fascinating 7,000-year-old story of the land occupied by present-day Turkey. The show runs at the Palazzo Quirinale, the official residence of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, until March 31.

It features 43 precious pieces created by the many peoples that have settled in or conquered the Anatolian peninsular, such as the Hittites, the Greeks, the Romans and the Turks.

The works come from Turkey's top museums including Istanbul's Topkapi Palace - the home of the Ottoman sultans between 1465 and 1853 - and Ankara's Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.Seven of the exhibits have never been loaned outside Turkey before, including a terracotta seal dating back to the seventh millennium BC.

Another of these treasures is a fourth-millennium-BC statuette of a mother deity found at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in the plain near the city of Konya."The statuette portrays a woman in the act of giving birth," explained Louis Godart, the exhibition's curator. "The mother deity was a symbol of the land's fertility."
The statue is evidence of the spread of new cults linked to the Neolithic revolution, the move from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society, at that time". A striking gold statue of a women made by Bronze Age craftsmen in the third millennium BC is making its international debut too.Tablets with written records of trade between Assyrian and Hittite merchants take visitors out of pre-historic times. The exhibition then presents objects left behind by the ancient Greeks, Romans and Byzantines.
When Sultan Mehmed II took Constantinople - today Istanbul - in 1453, the Muslim Ottoman dynasty completed its conquest of the peninsular and killed off the Christian Byzantine Empire. The contribution of Islamic culture is demonstrated with exhibits like a beautiful 16th-century Koran studded with precious stones.
A colourful 17th-century portrait of a Turkish woman smelling a flower with a flirtatious look in her eye and a delightful pair of 19th-century gold earrings are among the other highlights from the Ottoman period. Godart said that, when choosing the works, he aimed to stress that Anatolia "reached its cultural high points in the periods when it opened up most to other societies".
The exhibition, entitled Turkey, 7,000 years of History, has been organized to mark the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Turkey-the Ottoman Empire. It was inaugurated on Wednesday during Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer's state visit to Italy.

Entry is free.

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Museum system in Rome

The Museum System of the Municipality of Rome is made up of an extremely diverse group of museum spaces and archaeological sites, of huge artistic and historical value. As well as the Capitoline Museums, the oldest public museum in the world, the museums that make up the System include the Museum of Rome, which gathers together the most important examples of the art history of Rome from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century, MACRO, a museum for those interested in contemporary art, the museum of the Villa Torlonia, a perfect meeting point of nature and culture, and the Planetarium and the Astronomical Museum, an ideal destination for anyone wanting to encounter the new frontiers of science. In 2006 it has been enriched by the acquisition of several prestigious new spaces, including the Museum of the Altar of Peace, designed by Richard Meier, and the Carlo Bilotti Museum in the Villa Borghese's Orangery, which contains a collection of works by De Chirico.The wide scope of what is on offer and the numerous initiatives (events and temporary exhibitions) this System of museums hosts, makes it unique in Italy.

Website: http://en.museiincomuneroma.it/

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Capitoline Museums

The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome.
The collections are closely linked to the city of Rome, and most of the exhibits come from the city itself.

The Museum System of the Municipality of Rome is made up of an extremely diverse group of museum spaces and archaeological sites, of huge artistic and historical value. As well as the Capitoline Museums, the oldest public museum in the world, the museums that make up the System include the Museum of Rome, which gathers together the most important examples of the art history of Rome from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century, MACRO, a museum for those interested in contemporary art, the museum of the Villa Torlonia, a perfect meeting point of nature and culture, and the Planetarium and the Astronomical Museum, an ideal destination for anyone wanting to encounter the new frontiers of science. In 2006 it has been enriched by the acquisition of several prestigious new spaces, including the Museum of the Altar of Peace, designed by Richard Meier, and the Carlo Bilotti Museum in the Villa Borghese's Orangery, which contains a collection of works by De Chirico.The wide scope of what is on offer and the numerous initiatives (events and temporary exhibitions) this System of museums hosts, makes it unique in Italy.

Musei Capitolini
Piazza del Campidoglio 1 - 00186 Roma
Opening hours Tuesday-Sunday 9.00am-8.00pm; 24th and 31st of December 9.00am-2.00pm (the ticket office closes an hour in advance)
Closed Monday, 25th December, 1st January, 1st May

Bus:
Via del Teatro di Marcello 44, 63, 81, 95, 160, 170, 175, 204, 628, 715, 716, 780, 781.
Via dei Fori Imperiali 84, 85, 87, 175, 186, 810, 850.
Via del Plebiscito 46, 62, 63, 64, 70, 80, 81, 87, 186, 492, 628, 640, 810.
Underground Line B - Colosseo stop

Tickets
Charges
Ordinary entrance tickets
Ordinary euro 6,50 (+ euro 1,50 exhibition)
Reduced euro 4,50 (+ euro 1,50 exhibition)
Capitolini Card: integrated entrance ticket to Capitoline Museums and Centrale Montemartini Ordinary euro 8,50 (+ euro 1,50 exhibition) Reduced euro 6,50 (+ euro 1,50 exhibition)

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