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 The origins of La Suvera go back to the Middle Ages when it was a fortress of the county of the Longobard Ardengheschi family. In 1507, Pope Julius II received it for political reasons as a gift from the Republic of Siena. This Renaissance Pope was a political and warlike sovereign, but he is known as well for having been a patron of Michelangelo and Raffaello and for having commissionned the construction of San Pietro to the architect Bramante. |
 The gift was so appreciated by Julius II, that he employed the ingenious Sienese architect Baldassarre Peruzzi to transform the ancient fortress into a Renaissance Villa.
Today La Suvera still preserves the magnificence of the Renaissance combined with the severity of the middle age. Later and again for political reasons, the Pope himself gave the property as a gift to the Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg, who, however, returned it some years later. In 1534 Francesco Maria della Rovere, the Pope’s grandson, sold La Suvera to the Sienese Chigi family. |
 Thanks to the current owners, the Marquis and the Marquise Ricci, La Suvera has become a rather fascinating and extraordinary country hotel of thirty two rooms and suites, welcoming a refined clientele from all over the world.The Marquis Giuseppe Ricci Paracciani Bergamini and his wife, the Princess Eleonora Massimo, have jointly created a place that is definitely out of the ordinary. The Family’s extensive collection of antiques, connecting the owners with the historical families of Europe, establishes aliving theatre of history and culture. |
 There is a wide choice of styles from which to choose in selecting a suite or a room: from the Neo-Gothic to the Neoclassical, from the sumptuous Empire furniture dedicated to Napoleon, to the Fox Suite with the 1800’s English furnishings of the Marquise Rosalìa Eustace Ricci. In the Marie Antoinette Suite you can feel the atmosphere of France at the end of the1700’s. In the Papal Suite you will find echoes of the Renaissance life of Pope Julius II. In the Maioliche Suite the Princess Massimo wanted to keep alive the souvenir of her great-grandfather Ferdinando di Savoia, first Duke of Genoa. From the Papal Villa to the Old Stables, to the Farm and to the Olive Mill, every room and suite is a little world within itself. |
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