Where you'll find us over the winter holiday
You can read us and reach us via email while we are away - you can even call us at our phone numbers and leave messages (we can listen to voicemail over the internet). And we would love to see comments and questions on our blogs, let's be interactive!
Meanwhile, I thought it would be fun to share some of our accommodations information! Hotel shopping is a lot of fun for me, and I tried really hard to balance sevice, location, ambiance, and cost.
TURIN (TORINO) 12/24-12/27
Torino hosts the 2006 Winter Olympic Games beginning in February.
Le Meridien Lingotto has been spectacularly converted from the ancient Fiat automobile factory by the renowned architect Renzo Piano - famous for the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Directly connected to the Congress Centre and the Lingotto Exhibition Centre, the hotel is quite simply the perfect business hotel experience.
Guest rooms are furnished in warm tones of cherry wood and feature fantastic design pieces of the 20th century. Glass walls from the original Fiat factory remain creating light and spacious rooms and suites.
The magnificent restaurant ‘Torpedo' is named after the extraordinary vehicle built in the old Lingotto factory. Overlooking luscious tropical gardens, guests can enjoy high quality cuisine which is a blend of Italian regional traditional dishes and avant-garde trends.
Housed in one of Turin's most significant buildings of the 20th Century, Fiat's historic Lingotto car factory, the hotel was originally built in the 1920s. This is where Fiat tested their early production cars and this site has been made famous by its use in ‘The Italian Job' for the car chase scenes. Today, guests can use the former Fiat car testing track on the roof of the building as a unique jogging area.
The Lingotto, a unique building and a symbol of Turin, is also a rare example of restoration of an industrial area on a grand scale. It is home to 8 Gallery, a leisure and shopping centre that is both 'ideal and nearby' and a place to meet, experience fashion and to savour and find inspiration in different cultures.
Inaugurated in September 2002, on the top floor of the Lingotto, the art gallery Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli was offered to the city by the president of Fiat.
Tel: +39 011 664 2000
Fax: +39 011 664 2001
Web site: www.lingotto.lemeridien.com
FLORENCE (FIRENZE) 12/27-12/29
Villino Il Magnifico - A typical Tuscan residence, well-sited in the heart of Florence, nearby the Arno river. A few minutes walk, or by the bus service, and you are in the the historical town center, with the most important museums, exhibitions and monuments and its extraordinary atmosphere.
There are six comfortable rooms furnished in different ancient styles, each one with individual services with bathtub or shower, air-conditioning, direct dial telephone, satellite TV color, refrigerator, safety boxes. In every object and furnishing you can recognize the same atmosphere you live at your home. The rooms are very elegant and functional at the same time, where charms and comfort are arranged together. Every object and detail welcome you as you enter.
Web site: http://www.florenceby.com/magnifico/index.html
Can't seem to find a phone number on their site. Reach us via email during this time period.
ROME (ROMA) 12/31-1/3
Hotel Italia - In the heart of historical Rome next to the Quirinale, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Termini station and the Colosseum, an exclusive and elegant place for a relaxing and confortable stay!
Via Venezia, 18 - 00184 Roma
Tel. +39-064 828 355
Fax. +39-064 745 550
Web site: http://www.hotelitaliaroma.com/en.htm
Meanwhile, I thought it would be fun to share some of our accommodations information! Hotel shopping is a lot of fun for me, and I tried really hard to balance sevice, location, ambiance, and cost.
TURIN (TORINO) 12/24-12/27
Torino hosts the 2006 Winter Olympic Games beginning in February.
Le Meridien Lingotto has been spectacularly converted from the ancient Fiat automobile factory by the renowned architect Renzo Piano - famous for the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Directly connected to the Congress Centre and the Lingotto Exhibition Centre, the hotel is quite simply the perfect business hotel experience.
Guest rooms are furnished in warm tones of cherry wood and feature fantastic design pieces of the 20th century. Glass walls from the original Fiat factory remain creating light and spacious rooms and suites.
The magnificent restaurant ‘Torpedo' is named after the extraordinary vehicle built in the old Lingotto factory. Overlooking luscious tropical gardens, guests can enjoy high quality cuisine which is a blend of Italian regional traditional dishes and avant-garde trends.
Housed in one of Turin's most significant buildings of the 20th Century, Fiat's historic Lingotto car factory, the hotel was originally built in the 1920s. This is where Fiat tested their early production cars and this site has been made famous by its use in ‘The Italian Job' for the car chase scenes. Today, guests can use the former Fiat car testing track on the roof of the building as a unique jogging area.
The Lingotto, a unique building and a symbol of Turin, is also a rare example of restoration of an industrial area on a grand scale. It is home to 8 Gallery, a leisure and shopping centre that is both 'ideal and nearby' and a place to meet, experience fashion and to savour and find inspiration in different cultures.
Inaugurated in September 2002, on the top floor of the Lingotto, the art gallery Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli was offered to the city by the president of Fiat.
Tel: +39 011 664 2000
Fax: +39 011 664 2001
Web site: www.lingotto.lemeridien.com
FLORENCE (FIRENZE) 12/27-12/29
Villino Il Magnifico - A typical Tuscan residence, well-sited in the heart of Florence, nearby the Arno river. A few minutes walk, or by the bus service, and you are in the the historical town center, with the most important museums, exhibitions and monuments and its extraordinary atmosphere.
There are six comfortable rooms furnished in different ancient styles, each one with individual services with bathtub or shower, air-conditioning, direct dial telephone, satellite TV color, refrigerator, safety boxes. In every object and furnishing you can recognize the same atmosphere you live at your home. The rooms are very elegant and functional at the same time, where charms and comfort are arranged together. Every object and detail welcome you as you enter.
Web site: http://www.florenceby.com/magnifico/index.html
Can't seem to find a phone number on their site. Reach us via email during this time period.
ROME (ROMA) 12/31-1/3
Hotel Italia - In the heart of historical Rome next to the Quirinale, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Termini station and the Colosseum, an exclusive and elegant place for a relaxing and confortable stay!
Via Venezia, 18 - 00184 Roma
Tel. +39-064 828 355
Fax. +39-064 745 550
Web site: http://www.hotelitaliaroma.com/en.htm
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