Hotel Villa Cimbrone is situated in the beautiful hill town of Ravello, located about midway along the extraordinarily scenic Amalfi Coast. Nestled within a magnificent park overlooking the sea, the hotel is a 10 minutes walk from the town’s centre over stone paved walkways that offer breathtaking panoramic views of the surrounding country side. In the 12th century Villa Cimbrone was an aristocratic mansion, probably built over the remains of an ancient Roman residence. In 1904 the Englishman Lord Grinthorpe, Ernst William Beckett, a connoisseur of art with refined and cultured habits whose social circle included members of London’s Bloomsbury Group, purchased the building and its gardens and undertook their restoration.
Recent restoration work, carried out with great care under the supervision of the National Heritage Authority, in order to conserve the original features, has made the interior of the Villa even more comfortable and welcoming.
Hotel Villa Cimbrone was for centuries an aristocratic home has today become a refined hotel. Ample space and exclusive services are reserved for the discerning guests of just nineteen rooms. Satellite TV, high speed Internet access and whirlpool baths integrate perfectly with the atmosphere of times past provided by antique furniture, qualify furnishings, frescoed walls, old stone fireplace, rare marble and original, turn of the century majolica floor tiles from Vietri, the nearby town famous for its artistic ceramic ware.
Guests appreciate the aura of peace and tranquillity that surrounds and pervades the Hotel, its discrete sense of privacy and its refined and courteous staff which have made the Villa Cimbrone the preference of many famous, illustrations people. Gore Vidal described the view from the Hotel’s garden overlooking the sea as “the most beautiful panorama in the world”.