Found this beautifully executed piece of artwork by Benjamin Low on Flipboard today and I was mesmeised, intreagued, repulsed…or maybe inspired,…but what do you think?
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Slightly unsettling concept art…
Venice…Palazzo Giovanelli
Venice has long been on my travel agenda, same for my traveling companions Jenny and Ross and thus we found ourselves toting luggage from the carparks to the water bus to find our way to our Venetian accommodation…this part of our European journey alone worthy of great reward for managing with elegant aplomb…a very stiff G&T, but I digress…
Imagine our relief when we stepped off our water bus on the Grand Canal, right at the door step of our latest digs…the beautiful Palazzo Giovanelli. An historic building, dating from the 1500s, painted with mythological figures by Zelotti, rich in charm and with a history that includes tenants such as the Mozart family and the King of Denmark, Frederick Christian IV and…us!
Yet again Jenny had excelled in her selection of interesting places to lay our weary heads. What’s more, Rossie had discreetly upgraded their suite to the presidential as a treat for her birthday and it is this suite you are viewing here…
As promised, another of our fabulous Chateau, Maison, Villa finds this in one of Italy’s most beautiful cities…
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Umbria…Castello di Petroia
I’ve always wanted to sleep in a Castle…preferably right up there in a turret…how about you? Well I got to do exactly that in a hauntingly beautiful genuine medieval castle in Umbria, Italy.
The Castello di Petroia, dating back to the Middle Ages, around 1163 to be more precise, is right up there on my ‘magical experiences’ list. And that’s why it rates in my continuing ‘fabulous accommodation finds’ theme.
My Rapunzel moment was not without it’s challenges I must add. A flight of steps up to the front door, bathroom down a flight, bedroom up two flights, rooftop vista yet another. Not for the faint hearted yet affording the most magnificent 360 degree view across a tapestry of rich green undulating valleys.
Walls a meter thick, barely space for my big feather four poster bed, moonlight to guide my way I was completely entranced and all thoughts of being haunted by the turret’s ancestry were replaced with the luxury of pleasant dreams…until a Wood Pecker tapped on my window to wake me. I’m glad he did. Watching the sun rise across the misty valleys was absolutely breathtaking. It felt good to be alive!
Oh! If the thought of the turret is just too daunting, there are similar evocatively atmospheric rooms in the main castle, and just a single flight of stairs.
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