A residence of Norman origins and dating back to the beginning of the last millennium the hotel is situated facing the Collegiata Church on one side and Mount Amiata on the other in the Medieval town of San Quirico dOrcia. Over the last one thousand years the hotel has been a refuge for the Templars an imperial fortress a hospital a convent and a fortified palace. The rooms open internally to a staircase of Roman origins which has undergone various changes through time until reaching its present aspect in the 19th-century when it was crowned with a dome to let...