Palazzo Piccolomini

Converted from a 16th-century palazzo, the family-run Piccolomini is the best hotel in town. It's quite a sight nicer (and far, far friendlier) than the Hotel Maitani, and the price is excellent for the level of quality. It retains some palatial grandeur in echoey salons and the remnants of decorative frescoes, but the rooms tend toward the elegantly simple, with missionary-style wood furnishings, compact bathrooms, and modernized comforts (some suites have plush touches like heated towel racks and canopied beds). The ground-floor rooms have high vaulted ceilings, while those on the upper floors often have views across lichen-splayed roof tiles to the countryside. The basement breakfast room is carved out of the living tufa, and in late 1999 the owners of Le Grotte del Funaro opened a restaurant, La Taverna de' Mercanti, affiliated with the hotel underneath.

Facilities:
Restaurant; babysitting; concierge; room service; smoke-free rooms

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