Hotel Villa La Principessa in Lucca | Travel + Leisure
1616 Via Nuova per Pisa
Lucca
www.hotelprincipessa.com
39-0583-370-037

COST: $$


Only a five-minute drive from lively Lucca, the 13th- century building was once the private residence of a Luccan nobleman.

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From Travel + Leisure, May 2008

“With hunting prints on the walls, striped fabrics, and tartan carpets, the property is more English country house than hotel....” MORE>>

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From Travel + Leisure, Nov 2003

“I was brooding as we left the composer's house museum for the Hotel Villa La Principessa, a property once owned by Castruccio Castracani (the Luccan general said to have been the model for Machiavelli's ideal prince). Thankfully, after walking the wooded grounds and dining on marinated salmon, thyme-and-lemon-scented chicken, and minestrone seasoned with heavenly local olive oil, my mood lifted. I felt like an ideal princess myself....” MORE>>

–M. G. Lord, “Tuscan Stakeout”

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