Borgo Il Melone Hotel ****
Loc. il Sodo Case Sparse, 38
52042 Cortona - Arezzo
Italy
Borgo Il Melone is a 3-hectare complex offering rooms and apartments set in pretty gardens. Tuscan countryside surrounds the estate and Cortona is just a 5-minute drive away.
In the 19th century the Borgo Il Melone hamlet consisted of a manor house and farm buildings. These have now been beautifully restored, but are still surrounded by fruit orchards, vineyards and olive groves.
Now Borgo Il Melone’s peaceful grounds are also home to a large swimming pool, which comes complete with a Jacuzzi area, changing rooms and showers and a lifeguard. There is also a poolside bar here.
Relax in spacious, well-decorated accommodation, whether in independent apartments which can accommodate up to 6 people or in hotel rooms in Borgo Il Melone’s main building.
There is a restaurant and a wine bar on site and in summer weekly concerts and wine-tasting events are organised. Borgo Il Melone’s restaurant serves local cuisine.
A variety of exciting activities can be organised at Borgo Il Melone, from cooking classes and pottery courses to rafting, horse-riding and cruises on Trasimeno Lake.
Rooms: 12
Hotel information
Borgo Il Melone’s pool is open from mid-May to the end of September.
Our elegant and charming hotel has twelve wide double rooms equipped with private bathroom with bathtub and shower, minibar, satellite TV, hairdryer, air-conditioning, safe, telephone and ADSL.
A place full of magic for a stylish and elegant, as well as extremely comfortable and relaxing, stay.
The restaurant offers an elegant and refined dinner to celebrate a special occasion or a light meal in a homely and cozy environment - the food selection boasts recipes that are colorful and tasty, prepared according to the local cooking tradition and seasoned with a touch of originality.
According
to the season, you will have the chance to sample the different flavors
of the land, complemented by a selection of wines from our cellar. If
you wish to discover the secrets of our most traditional recipes, we can
organize cookery courses on request.
A rich and colorful breakfast will be served in the Tavern from April
to September and there also will be special events and wine tastings.
An encounter with Cortona is an encounter with art, with history and with spirituality. Getting to know this timeless city is a real rediscovery of our past. Cortona offers testimony to its history as well as an enchanting view of the landscape enclosed by Lake Trasimeno and the Appenines.
Classical music’s most celebrated artists including Lang Lang, Antonio Pappano, Thomas Hampson, Midori, Sarah Chang, Salvatore Accardo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Hélène Grimaud, John Corigliano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Nina Kotova will highlight the third annual Tuscan Sun Festival on August 5-21, 2005, in Cortona, Italy.
The Museum of the Etruscan Academy is housed at the noble floor of the historic Palazzo Casali, erected in the 13th century, later turned to official residence of the family that ruled the signoria of Cortona (1325-1409) and, then in 1411, adapted to be the seat of Florentine captains and commissaries. The museum was created by the initiative of three culturated Cortonese brothers, Marcello, Ridolfino and Filippo Venuti, founders of the Etruscan Academy, who gathered in this seat a rich archaeological collection and an important library, both gifts of their uncle Onofrio Baldelli, for the cultural promotion of the Etruscan Academy.
The area stretching from Valdichiana to the Casentino area until the town of Cortona is the location of the "Terre di Arezzo" wine route, which is over 125 miles long.
General
Parking (fee required) – Restaurant – Bar – Newspapers – Garden – Non-Smoking Rooms – Rooms/Facilities for Disabled – Free Parking – Safety Deposit Box – Heating – Gay Friendly – Breakfast Buffet
Activities
Jacuzzi – Walking – Outdoor Swimming Pool
Services
Room Service – Meeting/Banquet Facilities – Business Centre
– Babysitting/Child Services – Laundry – Breakfast in the
Room – Internet Services – Car Rental
Location
Countryside – Park – Old Town