Hotel Palio, Asti, Piemonte - Asti hotels

Hotel Palio, Asti

Renovated throughout in 2005, this delightful hotel in the centre of Asti offers a comfortable contemporary base in the heart of this historic Piedmont town. A choice of double (and single use thereof) and triple rooms all have minibar, bathroom, air conditioning, TV and telephone. The hotel has the excellent Falcon Vecchio restaurant, offering superb examples of traditional Piemontese cuisine. This area is of course famous for its food, being one of the world's foremost truffle centres, and similarly famed for its mushrooms. Asti is also superb wine producing country - you'll enjoy light sparkling whites and heady red wines.

This Asti hotel has a bar, facilities for guests with limited mobility, elevator/lift to every floor, non smoking rooms, 24 hour front desk, WiFi internet access, and can offer laundry and dry cleaning. Best of all, it places you well to enjoy all this historic Piedmont town has to offer. Asti is very ancient - a neolithic settlement even before it was a Roman 'castrum'. One of Italy's first independent comune, it was minting its own currency in the twelfth century, before attracting the attention of the notorious Frederick Barbarossa - who laid siege and then burned the place to the ground in 1155.

History is everywhere - in the magnificent cathedral, the fragments of medieval town wall and older Roman walls, the museums and medieval (and older churches). An ideal time to visit Asti is during early September, with the Festival delle Sagre food fair, the medieval pageant and the breathtaking Palio, a bareback horse race around the city. Set on Via Cavour, this Asti hotel places you perfectly.

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Double room from €105