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Palazzo Busdraghi, with its striking,
period elegance, is a new 4-star hotel in Lucca, created
from an old town house of the same name in Via Fillungo,
the main street in the historic centre of the town.
 It
has seven bedrooms, all luxurious and carefully designed.
Each one has a different shape, is decorated with rich
fabrics in a different colour and furnished with fine
antiques, such as the wardrobe that belonged to Giacomo
Puccini.
Creating the right atmosphere and
attention to detail makes Palazzo Busdraghi the ideal
place to stay when you come to visit historic Lucca.
Palazzo Busdraghi will provide a special experience
for everyone. The hallmark of Palazzo Busdraghi town
house hotel is the care it gives to the services it
offers its guests.
At the period residence Palazzo Busdraghi you can have
breakfast in the sunny "tapestry" room that
overlooks a green corner of the town, have tea or sip
a glass of wine in the charming little reading room,
or when you come back to the  Palazzo after spending
the whole day discovering new places, shopping and walkingaround. The staff and management will be happy to see
to all your wishes and requirements.
ACCOMODATION: Bedrooms: There are seven en suite bedrooms,
all different in shape, colour and furnishings. Fine
antiques are combined with modern fittings and all rooms
are soundproofed and air-conditioned and have a minibar,
safe, two telephones (one in the bedroom and one in
the bathroom), a hair dryer and plasma satellite television.
Each bedroom has ensuite bathroom with Jacuzzi bath
tub or shower.
The maid will do your laundry with
in 24 hours for a small extra fee.
Please note that car parking is two
blocks away from the hotel  but included in the price.Access to the lobby from the street is via 1 ½
flights of steps, there is no elevator so please keep
this in mind if you are elderly or disabled.
LOCATION: Palazzo
Busdraghi is in central Lucca which is near to Pisa
and Florence as well as with easy reach of most important
Tuscan places of interest. The nearest airport is Pisa,
about 30 minutes. Florence airport is one hour and Rome
3 (hours and minutes by car).
OTHER FACILITIES AVAILABLE
NEAR BY: Tennis, golf, the beach (30 minutes
drive), horse riding, wine tasting, fabulous dining,
thermal spas, Renaissance and medieval art and architecture.
HISTORY: Palazzo Busdraghi dates back to the 16th century and
has an irregularrectangular 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).
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