Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to Sextantio Albergo Diffuso, Abruzzo
Facts in brief
Location In the Gran Sasso mountain range, 20 minute drive to Castel del Monte
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Rome
Distance from airport The hotel is about 2-hours' drive from the airport
Hotel facilities and services
Car Park, Concierge Service, Restaurant, Bar, Tea Room, Wine Cellar, Complimentary WiFi in rooms and common areas, Massage, Treatments, Artisan Craft Shops on site, Baby-sitting, Mountain Bikes, Snow Shoeing, Cooking Class, Bread and Pastry Making, Weaving Course, Truffle Hunting and other excursions, Soap Making Class, Room Service.
Complimentary
Wi-Fi throughout rooms and communal areas, Porterage.
Out and about nearby
National Park, Walking and Hiking, Canoeing, Cultural Excursions,Horse-riding, Wine Tasting, Cookery Workshops, Bread and Cheese Making Lessons, Historic Hermitages
Sports nearby
Walking, Riding, Snow shoeing, Skiing (sometimes possible in December and January). The closest sandy beach is 100 km away on the Adriatic.
Thanks for organising what was a wonderful holiday. Apart from a delay because of Gatwick fog coming home, everything ran like clockwork and we had a cracking time. I would be happy to recommend Expressions and hope we will have the opportunity to organise another trip with you in the future.Mrs S, October 2024
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Classic double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,350
Holiday Code EXH693
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to Sextantio Albergo Diffuso, Abruzzo
Set at 1250m above sea level in the heart of the Gran Sasso National Park, the village of Santo Stefano di Sessanio was once a decayed and deserted village but thanks to its new owner, the village has been restored and resurrected in keeping with the owner's love and passion for the art and culture of this mountainous region. Sextantio Albergo Diffuso now has 27 rooms which have been painstakingly restored keeping their historical features and wooden fireplaces with re-instated wooden ceilings. Technology is present yet imperceptible, for example in the under floor heating and low-tension electrical power. Stone and wood are softened by artisan fabrics, woollen mattresses and bedspreads woven on traditional looms. In striving to reflect Abruzzo's rural traditions, the hotel has rediscovered local gastronomy and has even bought land to produce its own food, served in a former cellar in the centre of the village. Artisan skills have been revived and a number of craft workshops have been set up in the village, with weavers for example producing hand made fabrics for the rooms and for sale direct to the public. Artistic and cultural events are an essential part of life in Santo Stefano and Sextantio will sponsor each season a series of concerts and events. The village and the region has something to offer visitors every season of the year from the wild flowers in Spring to the possible snow in the winter months. Numerous trips into the nearby countryside are possible on different means of transport; cycle, horse and foot. Picnics can be arranged for day excursions from Sextantio Albergo Diffuso.
Room descriptions
Sextantio Albergo Diffuso has 27 rooms with bath or shower and wc, heating, hairdryer, artisan toiletries. Please note that the rooms do not have televisions.
Thanks for organising what was a wonderful holiday. Apart from a delay because of Gatwick fog coming home, everything ran like clockwork and we had a cracking time. I would be happy to recommend Expressions and hope we will have the opportunity to organise another trip with you in the future.Mrs S, October 2024
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Classic double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,350
Holiday Code EXH693
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to Sextantio Albergo Diffuso, Abruzzo
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Sextantio Albergo Diffuso in Abruzzo, our clients usually fly to Rome Fiumicino airport. We recommend the use of a hire-car for a stay at this hotel and we would include it in the price of holiday. The driving time from Rome to the hotel is about 2 hrs and 30 minutes.
Additional information
Minimum stays: There is a 2 nights minimum stay between 28 December and 7 January.
Children: Baby cots can be provided for free and Executive Suites may accommodate 2 extra beds free of charge.
Special offers
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Thanks for organising what was a wonderful holiday. Apart from a delay because of Gatwick fog coming home, everything ran like clockwork and we had a cracking time. I would be happy to recommend Expressions and hope we will have the opportunity to organise another trip with you in the future.Mrs S, October 2024
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Classic double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,350
Holiday Code EXH693
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to Sextantio Albergo Diffuso, Abruzzo
About Abruzzo
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to Abruzzo gives you the chance to explore a beautiful, yet little-visited region of Italy. Framed by the Adriatic and the Appenines, Abruzzo is one of the most mountainous regions in Italy, famous for the monasteries and castles that seem to cling to every clifftop. Historically relatively cut off, the pace of development in Abruzzo has been slower than elsewhere in Italy, and life here follows a traditional pattern despite the fact the region's western borders lie only 50 miles east of Rome. Here, in remote hill-towns and villages, some virtually unchanged in centuries, Sunday markets groan with local produce, and family-run trattoria produce unassuming but exquisite feasts. Though Abruzzo's 80-mile coastline boasts some of the finest Blue Flag beaches in Italy, it is Abruzzo National Park in the rugged mountainous interior that draws many visitors to the region. Criss-crossed by ancient shepherd tracks, covered almost entirely by centuries-old beechwood forest still sheltering wolves and bears, the 190-square mile park is the oldest in the Appenines, offering fantastic walking either through its forests and flower-filled meadows, or up among its 7,000ft granite summits. A beautiful yet undiscovered region boasting the most southerly glacier in Europe and the highest peak on the Italian peninsula, Abruzzo is an unassuming, enchanting delight which is an ideal holiday destination.
Highlights of Abruzzo
Mediaeval castles abound, with Pescina, San Pio delle Camere, Celano and Ocre merely some the most spectacular; wandering the winding streets of the dramatic castle towns of Castel di Ieri and Fontecchio; Maiella National Park, with its 40 hermitages and chapels, wild-flower valleys and forests, and Gran Sasso (9,554ft), the highest summit on the Italian peninsula; the ski resort of Pescocostanzo, complete with 16th century palaces and 11th century churches; Ovid's birthplace, Sulmona, a pretty medieval town in the shadow of Gran Sasso, with a 13th century aqueduct still supplying water to the town's fountain, a stunning 11th century cathedral with Byzantine-style reliefs; 1s t century Roman ruins of Alba Fucens; Gole di Celano, a 2,000ft gorge, with a twisting, dramatically narrow, well-marked track at its base; Ovindoli, a charming hilltop village and wonderful base for hikes and rides into Velino-Sirente Regional Park, where visitors can walk alongside an underground river at Stiffe past spectacular rock formations, giant stalactites, stalagmites and spectacular subterranean waterfalls; Castelli, another classic hill-town with vast views over the valley below Gran Sasso, famed for its contemporary art shops; the 9th century cathedral of Atri and its magnificent Renaissance frescoes; an abundance of monasteries clinging to the cliffs, including the baroque churches and 15th century cloisters of San Giuliano overlooking L'Aquila.
