Hotel L'Aquila

Abruzzo


Fresh from a 2017 renovation, the rooms at this quietly elegant hotel are doused in pretty yellows and greens, and are spacious by Italian standards. There’s free parking at a nearby municipal car park.

Despite its location close to the Piazza del Duomo, this muscular hotel was one of the few structures to escape major damage in the 2009 earthquake: it even provided accommodation for some of the G8 dignitaries who held a summit here in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.


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