A Palazzo Busdraghi
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Lucca - Via Fillungo 170

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A 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. We call it a Residenza d'Epoca.
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 make Palazzo Busdraghi the ideal place to stay when you come to visit historic Lucca. A special experience for everyone.

The hallmark of the A Palazzo Busdraghi town house hotel is the care it gives to the services it offers to its guests:
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There are seven 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 (in the bedroom and bathroom) and plasma satellite TV, and bathrooms furnished with jacuzzi bath or jacuzzi shower/sauna. At the period residence A Palazzo Busdraghi breakfast is one of the most important moment during the day; we like to offer our guests local and fresh products to have the opportunity to appreciate the tradition of the past.
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Palazzo Busdraghi dates back to the 16th century and has an irregular rectangular 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).