Bosone Palace

Frommer's Review

The Bosone was built for the Raffaelli family in the 14th century and counted Dante among its first guests. (He stayed here after getting booted out of Florence on trumped-up embezzlement charges.) Splurge and book one of the Renaissance suites, with ceilings stuccoed and gorgeously frescoed in the 17th century, even though the furnishings are imitation era pieces. (Try for no. 212, which has the larger bathroom and frescoes in both rooms.) Even if you opt for the standard doubles, you aren't sacrificing. The spacious carpeted or wood-floored rooms are decorated with a studied simplicity the Brunelleschian Renaissance would've appreciated. The breakfast room sports 18th-century grotesques and stuccoes. The hotel's official restaurant isn't the recommendable Bosone Garden underneath, but the Taverna del Lupo, a few blocks downhill.

Facilities:
Concierge; tour desk; car-rental desk (ask at least a day in advance -- the car has to be brought from Perugia); courtesy car; 24-hr. room service; laundry service; dry cleaning

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