A Palazzo Busdraghi is a fully air conditioned hotel, situated in the historic centre of Lucca, on the main street, via Fillungo. This 13th century palace with its striking elegance, also features a beautiful 16th century courtyard. At the hotel, guests can have tea or sip drink in the charming little reading room. The property can arrange, in cooperation with a local transport company, tours to the nearby most interesting sites.
The hotel shows itself on Fillungo street, the most important street of the historical center of Lucca.
Come Arrivare
By car The hotel is easily reachable by the motorway A11, Firenze-Mare, exit Lucca Est. Follow the signs for Abetone-Garfagnana. Then follow the signs for Porta Santa Maria. By train The hotel is a 15 minutes' walk from the Lucca railway station. By airplane The hotel is 25 km from the Pisa airport.
Info Stanze (7 camere)
The hotel has 7 double single use, double and triple rooms. All of the accommodations are luxurious and carefully designed, each with rich fabrics in different colours and with fine antique furniture. The bathrooms have jacuzzi tub or sauna-showers. The rooms feature private bathroom with hairdryer and are equipped with air conditioning, telephone, safe, mini bar, satellite TV with plasma screen, direct dial telephone, heating and Internet connection.
Attrazioni
Palazzo Busdraghi dates back to the 16th century and has an irregular rectangular shape with a complex distribution of internal space that derives from earlier medieval buildings. It is bounded on three sides by Via Fillungo, Via Busdraghi and Via del Portico, and the entrance to the courtyard from Via Fillungo is through a 16th-century covered loggia with a beautiful portal with Doric columns in the Civitali style. The Company of the Cross, whose role was to assist people who were condemned to death and to give hospitality to pilgrims, was one of the last dimore of the family. There is also a large beautiful garden behind the long wall on Via Busdraghi. This name as well as the property became the family's through the marriage of Anna di Michele Bartolomei to Giuseppe Francesco Busdraghi in 1701. The façade in Via Fillungo dates from 1500 and has a wood-panelled door and family crests set into an old fanlight, with columns on the outside and in the courtyard in the style of noted artists in Lucca in the 16th century. Jacopo di Piero Busdraghi was already living in the area in 1340, renting a property described as extra portam in the San Pietro Somaldi district, while the family's principal house was the one owned by Giuseppe Francesco in Via San Giorgio which he sold, with the consent of the General Council, to Lelio Ottorini who later sold it to the marquises Meuron. They also owned a "beautiful villa with an olive grove" in Pozzuolo (then called Quilici).
