Excellent hotel, friendly and helpful staff. The only thing that needs mentioning is that if someone makes noise in the corridor or in the neighbouring room, it can be well heard in the room, and that creates discomfort, especially early in the morning.

We stayed here during the slow food cheese festival. It is an unforgettable experience in a beautiful building in amazing surroundings. It is a little way out of Bra if you do not have a car (we didn’t) but the site itself has so much history that it ois a must visit on its own.

In other buildings of this converted palace are the University of Gastronomy and the Wine Bank - both must sees. There is a good swimming pool but we had not the time to sample it.

We had a superior class room on the first floor which was spacious, well appointed and comfortable. There was plenty of wardrobe space though twice as many coat hangers wouldWiFi was good and reliable.

So why only a four star review? The answer is breakfast which while reasonable does not match the standards of the rest of the hotel. Perhaps four and a half if Trip Advisor allowed it but because of the breakfast it does not attain the perfection to deserve five stars.