Villa d’Este in Italy

Forbes magazine publishes a list of 400 best hotels in the world. The first place is given to the Italian Villa d’Este, situated on Lake Como in Cernobbio city (Italy). Incredibly beautiful palace Villa d’Este was built in 1568. But in the late 1873, this building start operating as a hotel. It has 152 rooms, 125 of which offer guests a yard with gardens extending to 25 acres. Price for one night at Villa d’Este hotel is 900 EUR and if you want to rent one of seven apartments on the main building, overlooking Lake Como, it will cost you 5,200 EUR per night. The hotel offers its guests a private beach, a century-old park with many great fountains, heated outdoor pool, indoor pool, 8 tennis courts, spa, disco and restaurant with spectacular views of Lake Como. All rooms and suites in the Villa d’Este is a unique interior, as the walls are paintings of famous artists, sheets, curtains, mirrors and workshops are first-class designers. Over the years the hotel has became increasingly popular, as it always stayed just high-level guests. In the mid-19th century, the future Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna Castle hired just two months, but eventually decided to stay 2 whole years in it. In the Forbes list for the best hotels in the world for 2009. After Villa d’Este are placed in the Peninsula Bangkok, Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong, Four Seasons George V in Paris and Burj al Arab in Dubai.