Sextantio Albergo Diffuso
Style Fortress conversion
Setting Scattered around Santo Stefano
Sextantio Albergo Diffuso is a brand new boutique concept: bits of the hotel are spread around a micro-village in the Italian Apennines. It’s a throw-back to the Middle Ages, with craftwork made by villagers, restoration-revived traditions and rustic simplicity maintaining the hilly hamlet’s mediaeval charm, but with modern luxury seamlessly incorporated.
Need to know
- Rooms 27, including seven suites.
- Rates Double rooms from $118.76 (€90), excluding tax at 10 per cent.
- More details Rates include Continental breakfast.
- Facilities Library and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: minibar and artisan bath products.
- Check-out 11am, but flexible if there’s availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Children Cots and extra beds are provided free. Babysitting with a local nanny costs €15 an hour (give a day’s notice). More...
- Also Pets are allowed at no extra cost.
Food and drink at Sextantio Albergo Diffuso
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Hotel restaurant
Locanda Sotto gli Archi serves Abruzzese cuisine in a rustic 16th-century building. Try traditional antipasti such as pork liver salami, prosciutto and the freshest ricotta. The speciality pasta of the area is also rustled up in the kitchens: strips of chitarrini are made using a guitar-shaped tool to shape the pasta sheets. A breakfast spread of home-made pastries, tarts and cakes is laid out in the bar every morning. -
Dress code
Humble hemp and cotton to match the ancient earthen surroundings. -
Top table
Close to the huge fireplace when the mountain temperature drops. -
Last orders
Breakfast from 8am until 10.30am, lunch between 1pm and 3pm and dinner from 8pm until 10pm. The bar shuts at 11pm. -
Room service
None. -
Hotel bar
Head to La Cantinone in the cosy wine cellar for aperitifs and antipasti. If the local red doesn’t take your fancy, the digestifs will: try the bitter herb-based genziana, or the sweet cherry ratafia. There’s also the Liquorificio, where a selection of local liqueurs are offered, as well as benches with digestifs dotted around the communal areas.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Sextantio Albergo Diffuso Via Principe Umberto , Abruzzo, 67020
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Smith extra at Sextantio Albergo Diffuso
Wine tasting on arrival; a tour of the village; and free mountain-bike and snowshoe hire. Members staying three nights or more also get dinner for two: a four-course tasting menu, including wine, water and coffee
In the know
Our favourite rooms
Palazzo delle Logge overlooks the village square and the Medici gate. For views out to the Apennines from the lounge and balcony, pick Casa sulle Botteghe. All the dimly lit and atmospheric rooms are minimalist and mediaeval, with working fireplaces, stone walls and wooden doors. The beds are high enough to fit a chamber pot beneath (there are real flushing toilets in each bedroom now) and have hand-stuffed woollen mattresses.
Packing tips
Dante and Petrarch verses to recite when the mediaeval mood takes over; mountain-friendly shoes and layers.
Also
Stake out the library: a place of wooden beams and painted ceilings, where you can browse the odd ancient tome over afternoon tea.
From the Guestbook…
Sextantio is truly a magical place to stay and when there you must go into the mountains for dinner at Paolo's or as it is properly known 'Rifugio Racollo' – it is about 15 m...
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