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Antica Torre Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Address Via di Fieravacchia 7
Location Around Town
Phone 0577-222-255
Fax 0577-222-255
Web site www.anticatorresiena.it
Room Information 8 units
Prices 90€-120€ ($117-$156) double. Prices lower in slow periods. Breakfast 7€ ($9.10)
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V
In Room Amenities TV on request, hair dryer
Parking Parking in streets around hotel or public lot nearby

Frommer's Review

The very friendly Patrizia Landolfo and her family run one of Siena's most simply elegant hotels, installed in a 16th-century tower house atop a brick-lined 600-year-old potter's workshop, which now serves as a minuscule breakfast room. A travertine staircase leads to rooms that are on the cozy side of small, with marble flooring, iron filigree headboards, old writing desks, and gauzy curtains. The rooms on the street are a smidgen larger, but those in back are quieter. The best rooms are the two on the top levels with a view over the Sienese rooftops to rolling green hills. The old tower is on a residential side street near the Porta Romana, a 10-minute stroll down Via Banchi di Sotto from the Campo.

You may also be interested in the Palazzo di Valli, Via Enea Silvio Piccolomini 135 (tel. 0577-226-102), the Landolfo's 12-room countryside hotel converted from a 17th-century villa set amid olive trees and flower gardens that lies .8km (a half-mile) from Porta Romana gate (a bus carries you to the Campo in 5 min.). Doubles here go for 100€ to 130€ ($130-$169), including breakfast, bathroom, TV (on request), minibar, and phone. It's open April through the July Palio, then again August through October.

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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