|
On the hills of Asolo, stands
the Hotel Villa Cipriani, a dreamy, lyrical setting just an hour's drive
from Venice. In the land where the artists Titian, Giorgione and
Canaletto immortalized landscapes, the Hotel Villa Cipriani offers
guests the timeless charms of a Patrician '500 residence. Once home to
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the hotel offers a tranquil yet
sophisticated backdrop for a relaxing stay.Its renowed restaurant
proposes creative cuisine: flavor from the sea and the hunt and fresh
garden produce. Villa Cipriani: a veritable feast for the senses.
this romantic hotel features rooms with enchanting views and cool
corridors of polished stone leading to a dining room where delectable
Italian cuisine is served. It is the perfect setting in which the
splendors of nearby Vicenza, Venice, Padova and Treviso can be
discovered. Guests can enjoy exploring the villas that Palladio built in
the area, as well as roaming the city where the poet Robert Browning
discovered love and heartbreak.
The villa, a few steps from the heart of the city and its walls, with
its marked characteristic of noble countryside residence, is divided
into two buildings pointed out on the wonderful kept garden to whose
center a sink is shadowed by pomegranate trees. The garden is the true
protagonist, changing tones at every season: invaded from thousand
tulips in April, a fall of perfumed roses in May and gradually
alternating scents and colors with passing of the months.
The restaurant and the veranda, with their great openings on the
splendid sight on surrounding hills and the plain, can accommodate
receptions up to 120 persons. Exceptionally, meetings of high level that
search the quiet and the confidentiality of a campaign dwelling can be
held in the same premises, for a maximum of 50 persons.
The list of the illustrious hosts could be interminable: actors like
Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio de Sica, Orson Welles, Peter O' Toole,
Catherine Deneuve; exponents of the international nobility like Giuliana
of Holland, prince Philip of Edinburgh, HM the Queen Mother; patrons and
captains of industry like Onassis and Niarcos. Names leaked out between
the toils of an iron curtain of confidentiality, prerogative of the
hotel in order protect a calm weekend, a romantic interlude or a stay
characterized by gastronomy. |