Hotel Le Renaie, San Gimignano; San Gimignano hotel

Hotel Le Renaie, San Gimignano

Hotel Le Renaie, San Gimignano - situated five kilometres north west of the lovely little Tuscan city, close to the village of Panicole, this delightful San Gimignano hotel sits in lush gardens and offers every modern comfort. The hotel was created in the 1970s, when a handful of rooms were added to the already famous Leonetto restaurant, but was entirely renovated in 2006.

Rooms at this San Gimignano are doubles, all with minibar, bathroom with bathtub, satellite TV, air conditioning, safe and telephone. The hotel has internet connection, a children's playground, outdoor swimming pool and there are cycles for hire. The restaurant provides the best in typical traditional Tuscan cuisine, among the world's best, and there is a great wine list: you do gaze onto the Chianti region of Tuscany here.

And within striking distance you have San Gimignano itself, the extraordinary city of the towers. Once there were 72, erected in the early Middle Ages by the competing Guelph and Ghibelline clans in the city. Remarkably, unlike in Florence or other Tuscan cities, more than a dozen have survived to this day, giving the city an extraordinary, and extraordinarily beautiful aspect. Perhaps it was because San Gimignano was largely forgotten from the 14th to the 19th centuries ... at which point it was discovered by fashionable Europeans on the Grand Tour. This is the ficitionalised setting for EM Forster's 'Where Angels Fear To Tread'. Your San Gimignano hotel puts the beauty of the city on your doorstep.

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Double room from €102