Alla Corte degli Angeli

Top choice in Lucca


This four-star boutique hotel sits in a couple of terraced 15th-century town houses on a peaceful lane. Its 24 sunny suites and doubles – named after flowers – feature frescoed ceilings, patches of exposed brick, romantic landscape murals and some lovely pieces of period furniture. Up-to-the-minute bathrooms have hot tubs and power-jet showers. The hotel restaurant and cocktail bar is an address in its own right.

The stylish lounge begs relaxation beneath yet another vintage beamed ceiling. It also hosts fantastic wine-tasting workshops with the hotel sommelier (30-minute/one hour class €25/50), and fun two-hour cooking classes kicking off with a bike ride with the chef through town to shop for the ingredients (€50).