Italy Luxury Hotels

Dear Guest,

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/

Exclusive Hotel in Venice

For over a century, this intimate, charming Venice hotel has been quietly extending its very special brand of hospitality to guests from around the world. Recently renovated to the highest standards of luxury and comfort, it is now confidently poised to take its place alongside Venice's top properties. On the waterfront, literally only seconds away from Saint Mark's Square and the heart of the city, it enjoys one of Venice's most privileged locations and commands a truly unforgettable view of Saint Mark's Basin and the Island of San Giorgio.

Warm and inviting, each guest room has been elegantly appointed with sumptuous fabrics, fine paintings, exquisite Murano glass and all the amenities and comforts a discerning traveller expects. Wooden beams, boiseries, flower-decked terraces with intriguing views add to the enjoyment. The hotel's stunning 14 junior suites and one suite boast a breathtaking lagoon view and all but those on the first floor have panoramic balconies and terraces. It is important to note that the very same high, exacting level of quality and comfort prevails in every room.

The Venice Hotel Savoia & Jolanda is located in the historical centre of Venice, a few minutes away from St. Mark Square, in a splendid position along Riva degli Schiavoni, in front of the Venice lagoon, from there it enjoys the unforgettable view of Saint Mark's Basin and the St. George Island. Its position allows one to reach easily the Mercerie and Via XXII Marzo with some of the world's finest shopping and to visit the Venice palaces, museums and the art galleries, lesser-known Venice like the more fascinating and secluded as the Sestiere Castello.

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Bed and breakfast in Rome

If you are looking for a nice quality bed and breakfast in Rome, IN ROME BED AND BREAKFAST offers a strict selection of B&Bs and nice apartments in Rome.



www.inromebedandbreakfast.com

Nice hotels in the Dolomites, Italy

If you are looking for a marvellous place where to spend your summer or winter holiday, here you have the Italian Dolomites.

With Italia Lodging Dolomites

http://www.accommodation-dolomites.com/

you will be able to choose the right charming hotel in the dolomites area

Chianti Charming Hotels

A new website to book a charming accommodation in Chianti, Tuscany.

If you are looking for something nice, affordable, and with a cosy atmosphere, here you have a very nice selection.

http://www.charming-chianti-hotels.com/

Happy new year: see you in Florence

The staff of A Florence View bed and breakfast Florence wish you all a happy new year 2007.

An happy year, which will be much happier visiting Florence!!

Sito Ufficiale della 32ma America's Cup

Sito Ufficiale della 32ma America's Cup

Tuscan jewel: Chianti wine

Chianti is Italy's most famous red wine. It used to be easily identified by its squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called fiasco ("flask"). (The fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now; most Chianti is bottled in traditionally shaped wine bottles.) Low-end Chianti is generally fairly inexpensive, with a basic Chianti running less than US$10, though more sophisticated Chiantis are made and sold at substantially higher price points.

The popularity and high exportability of this wine at the moment of introduction of the DOC, 1963, was such that many regions of central Tuscany didn't want to be excluded from the use of the name. As a result the large (for Italian standards) production area was split in seven sub-regions: Classico, Rùfina, Colli Senesi, Colli Fiorentini, Montalbano, Colli Aretini, Colline Pisane (from 1994 there is a new sub-area: Montespertoli, formerly part of Colli Fiorentini). Wines labeled Chianti Classico come from the heart of the area that is traditionally attributed to this wine. The other variants, with the exception of Rufina from the north-east side of Florence and Montalbano in the south of Pistoia, originate in the respective named provinces: Siena, Firenze (Florence), Arezzo and Pisa.

Until the middle of the 19th century Chianti was based solely on Sangiovese grapes. During the second half of 19th century Baron Bettino Ricasoli who was an important Chianti producer and, in the same time, minister in Tuscany and then Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy, imposed his ideas: from that moment on Chianti should have been produced with 70% Sangiovese, 15% Canaiolo and 15% Malvasia bianca (Malvasia bianca is an aromatic white grape with Greek origins). During the 1970s, producers started to reduce the quantity of white grapes in Chianti and eventually from 1995 it is legal to produce a Chianti with 100% sangiovese, or at least without the white grapes. It may have a picture of a black rooster (known in Italian as a gallo nero) on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the "Gallo Nero" Consortium; an association of producers of the Classico region sharing marketing costs. Aged Chianti (38 months instead of 4-7), may be labelled as Riserva. Chianti that meets more stringent requirements, (lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract) may be labelled as Chianti Superiore. Chianti from the "Classico" sub-area is not allowed in any case to be labelled as "Superiore".

Chianti is not the only traditional wine made in Tuscany, and there are also new wines, based on sangiovese (i.e.: Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano etc.) and some popular French grapes that are usually dubbed "Super Tuscans". Due to rule changes, some of these wines (particularly the pioneering Tignanello) could legally be labeled as Chianti, though many producers of these wines have chosen not to do so.

The word "Chianti" can be used as a semi-generic name in the United States if the place of origin is clearly indicated next to the word to avoid consumer confusion. However, with the popularity of varietal labeling, semi-generic names are rarely used today, even on jug wines.

Due to the wine's relative cheapness, its easy-drinking qualities, and the frequent use of the empty fiasco as a candleholder, Chianti is very strongly identified with Italian American cuisine, especially the "red sauce" variety pioneered by southern Italian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Tuscany: Migliarino - San Rossore Park

Close to Versilia and the world's most famous tower (in Pisa), a mosaic of miraculously integral natural environments, protected by the park.
The beach is among the most solitary of the Tuscan coast and abounds in low dunes and pioneer plants.
Inland, green pine forests planted from the eighteenth century onward, fragrant expanses of Mediterranean underbrush and strips of mixed woods that host a rare vine, the periploca, deer and wild boar.
As for wetlands, Lake Massaciuccoli hosts an important avifauna and precious peat-bogs that extend among the cane-brakes .
MIGLIARINO - SAN ROSSORE - MASSACIUCCOLI REGIONAL PARK
Extension: 23.115 ettari.
Sede: Via Aurelia nord, 4 - 56122 Pisa - tel. 050 525500.
Sito web: www.parks.it/parco.migliarino.san.rossore

A nice spot to be visited from Florence (1 hour by car).

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