Via Guelfa, 15 52044 Cortona − Italy
Old fifteenth century building in the historic center of Cortona.
More than a hotel, a large comfortable house, the ancient Baldelli Palace, restored with due respect of the ancient architectural features and considered by the guides and the press a real "Condensed history of Cortona", the ministry of Art, has declared Hotel San Michele “National Monument”.
The hotel offers 40 rooms, each one different but all with ancient furniture and equipped with modern services and comforts.
Hotel San Michele is the most central accommodation of the town, a few steps from the main squares (location of the most important events), and the major attractions of Cortona: MAEC, Diocesan Museum, Signorelli Theatre. Conference Center Sant'Agostino is less than 100 meters from our Hotel. You can find the best restaurants few steps far from us. Hotel San Michele allows to its customer to arrive directly in the center of the town because it is the only one in Cortona to have a private garage or a parking place.
Soon you will forget the chaos and the traffic jams and you will start living Cortona style, where people still walk the city and time has stopped.
Why abandon your sport activities during your pleasure or business trips? The Cortona countryside is all you can ask with regards to hiking, mountain biking and horse back riding.
Cortona offers a complete range of infrastructures for those who love tourism in connection with sport activities and well being. Nearby Hotel San Michele and Relais Borgo San Pietro you can find: bocce courts, tennis courts (also indoor), football courts, etc.
Would you like to learn the secrets of home-made pasta ? Or to learn how to choose the right wine for your meals ? We recommend you to try to dive into the magic world of Tuscan cuisine, even for only an afternoon or for a whole week. This is how you will taste excellent wine and food as well as learning how to cook them in order to offer them to your family and friends once you come back home from your holiday in Tuscany!
The "Bar dell'Accademia" opens this year with the scope of offering a service to the guests of Hotel San Michele and not only: after so many efforts to guarantee a complete service we decided to create a space not only used for breakfast, but also oriented to serve evening meals.
Restored and upgraded, the Il Bar dell'Accademia offers aperitifs, happy hour and outdoor dining. With a rich buffet and a barman of excellence, we hope that everyone can get out of our facility with satisfaction.
Each room is equipped with air conditioning and heating, satellite TV, minibar, desk, tiled marble floor, hairdryer, free toiletries, toilet, bathroom, bathtub or shower, phone, satellite TV, minibar, alarm clock and free WiFi.
The fast pace life style of today, stress full living, frozen food etc., make it necessary that a vacation could combine cultural moments to relax and well being. Ask at the reception, our staff will be happy to suggest the SPA that will suit best your requirements.
A gorgeous suite, inside a panoramic tower, a wellness area with jacuzzi bathtub with a view of the entire valley and the historic center of Cortona.
You can enjoy a glass of wine at sunset, pampered by the hot tub, or require a relaxing massage accompanied by any kind of music. Upstairs you can relax and enjoy a moment of genuine intimacy with the loved one.
The view of the tower will not be any view you can enjoy the 360 degree panoramic view directly on one tof the most striking and romantic viws of Tuscany.
Services in La Torretta:
Free Wi-Fi, air conditioning, music, jacuzzi for three peole, chromotherapy, toilette, relax area, herbal teas, phone, bathrobes, slippers and courtesy kit.
Extra options on request for La Torretta:
Hotel San Michele is located in the historical centre of Cortona, only 50 meters from the Sant'Agostino congress centre, the only venue truly equipped in Cortona.
The congress hall is located inside the old St. Agostino convent. The congress rooms, with their frescoed ceilings, are set with the most modern audio-video equipment.
The centre is divided into 6 rooms for a total capacity of 500 people. Because parking is difficult in Cortona, Hotel San Michele, with its private garage, is the perfect solution for attending events.
Hotel San Michele and Relais Borgo San Pietro can make your business trips in Cortona easier by providing logistic support. We do offer personalized solutions for business trips and events in Cortona.
Our Hotel and Relais are strategically located near the Sant'Agostino congress centre, the only venue truly equipped in Cortona.
Cortona is famous all over the world as a top destination for getting married. Lots of couples come to Cortona every year to celebrate the most important day of their life and to make it a beautiful day. We do offer, to couples and wedding planners that choose Cortona, all the necessary support and logistics to organize weddings and ceremonies.
An encounter with Cortona is an encounter with art, with history, with mysticism. Knowing this city "out of time" is a real rediscovery of the past. Cortona jealously, inside the Etruscan walls, the evidence of a noble civilization. Cortona can offer these testimonies and along a charming landscape between the Lake Trasimeno and the Apennines.
On a 600 meters high dominates the whole Valdichiana and a view that stretches to the horizon to find the peaks of Amiata. Its medieval buildings and lanes give the town an evocative atmosphere. The Basilica of Santa Margherita and the Franciscan sanctuary of Celle invite the visitor to discover Cortona from above, offering an itinerary of art and faith within walking distance from the historic center.
Cortona is not only a place of historical and artistic beauty. Every year there are numerous events that make your stay more pleasant and "mundane". Here are the main ones:
From November to March: Theatre Season Teatro Signorelli
April: religious celebrations at Easter
May: pageants and Joust dell'Giostra dell'Archidado
From June to September: Summer Cortona
August: Mix Festival
September: Cortonantiquaria
The Diocesan Museum of Cortona is located opposite the cathedral in the architectural complex of Jesus, extended on the initiative of Monsignor Giuseppe Franciolini in 1945 with the renovation of an annex in which, in addition to accommodation of the caretaker and the direction of the museum is housed on two floors a context of exhibition halls. The museum is divided into nine exhibition halls and houses works of art ranging from the second century AD to the modern art of this century coming mostly from churches in the city and placed here for reasons of conservation and security. They hold important works by Luca Signorelli, Pietro Lorenzetti, Fra Angelico. The work is certainly more important L 'Annunciation by Fra Angelico; see also the works by Luca Signorelli, who was born in Cortona around 1455 and died here in 1523, one of the most significant painters of the Italian Renaissance. His nudes anticipate Michelangelo while his landscapes echo the rhythmic compositions of Perugino.The Diocesan Museum is located in front of the Cathedral, inside the architectural complex named "Of Jesus". The museum is composed of nine salons and hosts masterpieces dating from the II century BC to modern art today Mainly coming from the local churches here and protected for security Reasons. Here you can find important paintings by Luca Signorelli, Pietro Lorenzetti and Beato Angelico.
The MAEC - The Museum of the Etruscan, today Maec or Museum of the Etruscan city of Cortona, has eighteenth-century origins. The original center was founded in 1727, when Abbot Onofrio Baldelli donated his collection and his library Etruscan Academy, just constituted by brothers Marcello, Philip and Ridolfino Venuti and a small group of young noble Cortona, interested Enlightenment. Studies promoted and published in the Academy, who thanks to their authors assumed a European importance, gave rise to the movement of etruscheria, whose gradual evolution arose the modern discipline of archeology.
In particular, the Museum has continuously enriched, from the eighteenth century, with many works of archaeological interest, found in the territory of Cortona, or donated by various members, and with art and crafts from different historical periods. Next to it, the Library, which was the second main field of interest of the Academy. Today the Museum boasts unique collections in the world and thanks to a project launched two decades ago is now one of the most important Italian museums.
The inauguration of the new rooms was made in 2005, while in 2008 the Maec was enriched with 6 new exhibition halls, where are also exhibited the artifacts found in the amazing Etruscan necropolis of the archaeological area of Sodo, discovered a few years ago.
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Hotel: Hotel San Michele
Address: Via Guelfa, 15 52044 Cortona
Region: Tuscany
Country: Italy
Official website: http://www.hotelsanmichele.net
Telephone: +39.0575.604348
Fax: +39.0575.630147
Hotel email: info@hotelsanmichele.net
By car:
From A1 Motorway take the Exit “Valdichiana”, direction Perugia. After 13 kilometres, take the 2th Exit for “Cortona” and go on for 6 km, direction Camucia.
Imboccando la S.S. 71 giunti in località Camucia si trova la deviazione per Cortona.
In Camucia follow direction Cortona and continue following the signs that indicate Hotel San Michele. Enter the city gate of Via Guelfa, transit is allowed for our customers 24 hours a day.
By train:
Direct line Milano-Bologna-Firenze-Roma
Railway station Terontola-Cortona (from Roma km 194, from Firenze Km 122) or railway station Camucia-Cortona.
From both stations, Terontola-Cortona (km 11) and Camucia-Cortona (km 5) there is a bus service and taxi service to Cortona.
By plane:
Main airports:
- Florence International airport Peretola 120 km;
- Rome Fiumicino Km 200;
- Perugia national airport Sant'Egidio 60 km;
From all airports there is a railway connection, however we suggest renting a car.