Four sensational -renewed historical hotels

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Art, history and Andalusian style

New in Seville’s scene, just in time for Andalusia Easter week Festivals, is Casa del Limonero, a concept of design in front of an extraordinary building. barracks Santa Cruz Landmark has a story that reaches back to the city – until Seville was Hispalis (for the ancient Romans), then Ishbiliyah (for the caliphate that occupied it in AD711) before it became part of the 13th century. Casa holds traces of almost every era: ancient paving stones, nasrid maiolica tiles in flowering yards and 15th-century archives ceilings.

Inside, another story is being said: Each of the 14 rooms and suites is strangely themed; The décor varies from the original carved coats to the 17th-century Venetian mirrors, a 900-year-old column base, and a fictional wild head created by a French metals. Art is serious, with works of Joana Vasconcelos and Malick Sidibé in careful mixing. The top floor suit is blessed with light and old city views.

Alpine minimalism (but do comfortable) in Switzerland

The best European ski destinations have done double tasks and summer attractions in recent years. In St. Moritz, one of the largest old watches of all is showing a new intriguing face for the world. In January Badrutt’s palace debuted 25 new suites on their ultra-contemporary arm, the first important renovation of the 129-year-old hotel in a century.

Designed by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel – Italian architects who have brought extreme rigor for everything from public plaza to the 1221 Avenue of the Americas (Rockefeller Center) to Bvlgari hotels around the world – Badrutt’s new Wing Wing is a special proposal for the palace in most aesthetic way. Where the latter is crystal damasks and chandeliers, marble accents and heavy drapes, Serlas suites dispersed with all, but the most strict ornaments, leaving the quality of the materials, from planned oak floors and brave baths to Loro Piana upolstery, speak.

Smooth Arcadia, in the Italian Renaissance capital

It is not properly in central Florence, nor is it properly in Fiesole, above the hill and outside the city. Sounds like an injury, but it is a wealth-one of some that Collegio Alla Querce, the first Italian property to flew the Auberge Hospitality Flag based on the SH.BA, brings to Italy’s most beloved city. Collegia-i composed of three 16th-century buildings, surrounded by hectares of lawn and parter gardens-was once one of the most prestigious boys ‘boys’ schools. This accounts for the hat and theater (plans are reported to be on stage at the Kabari dinners curated by Fondazione Mascarade, whose English founders have again made the direct opera and jazz again here).

83 rooms and suites bypass the slopes covered with cypress in one direction, or historical center to the other. A small part of the suite have a worthy appearance for duomo from the interior fresco and large terraces. Breakfast at the Air Restaurant Limonaia, La Gamella, is a wonder; Cafe Focolare pool has an alfresco pizza oven and tables in its own olive; Conservatorio, with its cascades of flowering and comfortable Alcove, aims to be a daily social heart for guests and locals. Auberge does not lack a trick for the conveniences, so guests will not love anything. And if few skates have been lost in pursuit of excellence, few would oppose the possibility that a saw adjacent to the hill pool would be one of the best places to be in the city when summer arrives.

Nostalgia sewage – and stylish – from sea to Tuscana

America pensions claim to be the first hotel in the city of Posh Tuscan Strong dei Marmi; Built as a private home in the 1890s and turned into agriculture in the 1920s by its second owners, it is entering a third phase of existence as one of the world’s leading hotels.

The owners of the granddaughter and Aunt Sara and Elena Maestrelli grew up here and have channeled some pleasant hits of the Nostalgia of the strong Midcenturia, while also hitting all their signs of trend with Rattan beds, Sicilian pottery and Santa Maria Novella in 18. There is a two -storey villetta sleeping five, and full access to Bagno Assunta Beach Club down the road to all guests.

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