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If you wish to stay in Segni, the town offers a
very nice and quiet hotel which is famous in the area for its top
quality restaurant visited daily by travelers but the locals who
dine there regularly and especially in occasion of weddings or other
events and when they have foreign guests to whom they want to
present the best their town has to offer. The hotel is called "La
Pace", (meaning Peace), and the name wants to communicate to the
guests that they'll find peace and quite there! "La Pace" 3 stars,
has a website which you can visit for more information
also in English language
www.albergo-lapace.it/index_uk.htm.
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Here on the right you can see a picture
of "La
Pace" restaurant.
Aside the above mentioned hotel, which is located
just outside the old part of the town, in Segni you can also find
accommodations right in the heart of the old medieval village. Mrs.
Augusta Ciotti years ago bought the large, historical house that
once belonged to Dr. Aminta Milani, one of the most prominent
characters in the recent history of Segni and to whom one of the
main streets of the town is dedicated. He used to be the personal
doctor of the popes Pius XI and Pius XII. The house is very large
and Mrs. Augusta decided to use the extra space to accommodate
foreigners. The facility, called "Il Glicine" (wisteria) |
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has three
large rooms that can lodge up to seven people who have use of
private bath, kitchen, living room and patio. Mrs. Augusta doesn't
have her own website (she's
not too keen about e-mail either) and she does not speak fluent
English therefore, though I am listing here her contact information,
I am afraid you'll have to book your rooms through me.
"Il Glicine"
owner: Augusta
Ciotti
Address: Via Pietro
Cossa, 7
00037 Segni - Rome
Phone: +39-06-96767895
e-mail: augustaciotti@hotmail.com
Fax: +39-06-9702155.. |
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Besides these two places, which I consider the best
accommodations in Segni, there other hotels and B&B's in Segni, but
they're not in town, they are down in the valley and we'll only use
them if we get really desperate. Rather than making my clients stay where I
wouldn't stay myself, I would rather look for another good place in
a nearby town. Not far from Segni, less than half an hour by car is
Fiuggi.
Fiuggi is another lovely little town, famous for its mineral waters
since the 14th century, when they healed Pope Boniface VIII from his
kidney stones. Later,
even' Italy's most venerated artist,
Michelangelo
drank Fiuggi's water to get rid of "the only stone he couldn't
love". Fiuggi today consists of two different towns, the
old medieval town, once called Anticoli Campagna, on the hilltop, |
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and the modern town in the valley, which developed to
offer hospitality to those who want to benefit from the springs, is
called Fiuggi Fonte. Fiuggi Fonte is a lovely, pleasant modern
town which really stands out amongst all the other places in the
area. No narrow streets or steps to climb, but rather wide, flat
streets sided by modern hotels, fashionable shops and outdoor cafés. In Fiuggi there are several 4-star hotels with a
price range between 80 and 150 Euros a night for a double room,
depending on the hotel and the season, and a multitude of 3-star
hotels with prices similar to Segni's La Pace. Finally there's a top
deluxe hotel called
Palazzo
della Fonte. |
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For those who like golfing, in Fiuggi there's a golf
course that opened in 1928 and is one of the few in Italy that do
not require membership to go and play. This means that you really
don't need to worry about finding the right accommodation for you
and that you can find other things to do around here if you don't
want to spend the whole time riding a scooter! If all of these
shouldn't be enough and you wanted something more thrilling, than
you can stay at the castle in Fumone where they rent two rooms for
165 Euros a night each. |
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