Prenotazione Albergo a Poggibonsi: Hotel Alcide

The Hotel-Restaurant Alcide is situated in Poggibonsi amidst the welcoming scenery of the tuscan hills, a few minutes by car from Florence and Siena.
Hotel facilities: Air conditioning, bar, two elevators, lounge area, sat. TV color, Internet Point (free of charge for hotel guests), restaurant and 24 hours-reception. Laundry service and baby sitting are available on request.
Meeting facilities: 1 conference room, capacity 100-120 participants. 1 small meeting room, capacity 20-40 participants. Available equipment: overhead projection service, video recording, photocopying. The hotel provides access to international telephone and fax services. Coffee breaks and light lunches can be set up. Groups welcomed. Pets allowed.
Because of its position it enables you to visit both the main centres of sightseeing and historical interest of Tuscany. It is a perfect venue for all those whishing an authentic, familiar atmosphere and a traditional Tuscan cuisine based on fresh fish.
Our restaurant
The restaurant, which holds over 500 people, is made up of three large dining rooms and has been managed by family Ancillotti. Since 1849 the family Ancillotti has ensured that traditional cuisine of Tuscany was brought back to life in each centuries-old recipe. The restaurant is distinguished for its fish specialities based on local fresh fish from the Argentario’s area.
In fact, in the first years of 1900 the grandfather "Alcide" began to cook a fish speciality called "cacciucco" and bring fish in Poggibonsi. But it was Maria Ancillotti the person, who, following her father's suggestions and spending her life in the kitchen, traced with great determination both the development and the success of the restaurant. In 1968 she was awarded the first prize "Cuoco d'oro" (the golden chef) for her recipe "sogliola alla vernaccia"(sole in vernaccia white wine). She also received many other awards for her indefatigable work and complete dedication to the art of cooking. Family Ancillotti is an extended family and the grand-daughters with other relatives manage the restaurant with great dedication and with the consciousness that they are part of a tradition. That is why the Alcide's dishes are still nowadays simple and genuine and keep alive the centuries-old flavours and Tuscan colours.

Poggibonsi was the Podium Bonitii” of the middle ages. Poggio Bonizio first becomes known towards the end of the XIIIth century as a town at the point where the rivers Staggia and Elsa meet, on the famous via Francigena. Poggio Bonizio was destroyed in the 1270 by Guy de Montfort, a legendary figure even in Tuscany - he merits a cameo role in Boccaccio's Decameron as well as Verdi's Sicilian Vespers. The town was rebuilt in the lower valley, on the site of the village Marturi.The modern town, much damaged by bombs during the second world war, it is nowadays the biggest industrial area of the Valdelsa. In the city centre we can find the two churches of San Lorenzo and the Choral, the Town Hall with the mayor's crests standing next a battlemented tower.Sites of interest are the Fonte delle fate (fairies' fountain) of the 13th century, by Balugano da Crema, with its beautiful ogival arches and the unfinished fortress, designed in 1478 by Giuliano da Sangallo at the request of Lorenzo the Magnificent. In the XIVth century convent of San Lucchese, first belonging to the Camaldolese order and then from 1213 to the Franciscans, there are frescoes of the XIVth and XVIth century and an urn containing the remains of San Lucchese, patron of the town. Here are some pictures of the numerous sightseeings of Poggibonsi and surroundings: Poggibonsi offers the visitor historical sites of particular artistic interest: Palazzo Pretorio, in gothic style (the façade is decorated with many coats of arms, among which one representing a lion standing on its hind legs,the symbol of Poggibonsi ), the Magione of San Giovanni al Ponte, a rare example of a preserved and restored medieval structure dating back to the XIIth century, the Collegiata of S. Maria Assunta, in front of Palazzo Pretorio; it is a religious building restored in 1680, partly in seventeenth-century style and partly in neoclassical style, the fortress of Poggio Imperiale, a Medicean fortress built between 1488 and 1511 by Giuliano Sangallo on charge of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Santuario di Romituzzo, erected near the oratory by some female hermits, the church of San Lucchese, first belonging to the Camaldolese order and then from 1213 to the Franciscans (there are frescoes of the XIVth and XVIth century and an urn containing the remains of San Lucchese the patron of the town), the Church of San Lorenzo, built in pure romanesque-gothic style, was erected on the ruins of the church of the Augustinians of Lecceto, the church of S. Maria Assunta in Talciona, of the XIIth century, in romanesque style, the castle of Strozzavolpe, the most important of the small fortifications that surrounded the inhabited area of Poggibonsi and the only arrived practically intact to us. It rises on a hill in front of the Poggio Bonizio” where was begun, and never completed, the Medicean project of the construction of a fortress and of a new strengthened city. Strozzavolpe is remembered as”Scoriavolpe” in a 1154 document passed during 1330 from the family Salimbeni to the Adimari of Florence.

From North:
From the Motorway A1 take exit Firenze-Certosa, take freeway to Siena and exit at Poggibonsi Nord. Follow directions to the center, viale Marconi 67a.

From South:
From the motorway A1 take exit Valdichiana/Betolle, follow directions to Siena, take freeway to Florence and exit at Poggibonsi sud. Then follow signs to the hotel, Viale Marconi 67a. Free parking available in front of the hotel. Very good bus and train connections to Siena and Florence