Our lodge is the Franciscan Convent built in 1611 on the top of a charming small village in the green hills above the enchanting fishers village Acciaroli where Ernest Hemingway lived for several months going to fish with 'his' old man in the splendid sea of the Acciaroli bay. with its long and perfectly clean sand beaches and the splendid crystalline water.
The building is set on a rock with absolutely panoramic view above the Cilento coast including the famous Cape of Palinuro. We enjoy the large convent´s ground with beautiful well kept gardens and the small peaceful wood inside the convent's walls on walkways around and behind the main building. All the guest- rooms are located in the cloisters on the first floor most of which overlook the beautiful gardens and the seaside. (All rooms with own bathroom).
With classical mediterranean charme the small own restaurant offers characteristic menus of Cilentane cuisine served under the terrace pergola with its suggestive view. 10 Minuten of walk into the pittoresk tiny village below, 10 minutes of car to one of the most beautiful bays of the Cilento coast with its 3 kms of natural sand and the enchanting fisher-village Acciaroli.Slow Food honoured the village with the title of Cilento's village with the most elevated life-style quality.
Discover and enjoy a mediterranean world far from modern stress , time-tables and agendas and dedicate eight days to perfect relaxation and recreation for body and soul. Follow your palate with our sommelier and feel the health and therapeutic benefits of the mediterranean diet. Our Individual Programmen offer much time and tranquillity for your personal holiday, but at the same time your personal guide assists you to discover the magic of this landscape, its culture and tradition, and to learn a lot about the mediterrranean diet and the production of its specialties, getting to know and talking with charming pruducers about their passion to create a superb quality of regional cuisine.
Our sommelier will introduce your palate and all your senses to the best way of tasting and valutating the quality of olive oil and wine in order to become a real gourmet-expert.
Walking to the producers through the beauty of this landscape to the producer`s places you will taste and eat the view when they serve their specialities.
Look forward to the day you will join the fishers going to work in the splendid Acciaroli bay, and trace Hemingway`s experiences who accompanied his' old fisher-man' of Acciaroli nearly every day during his long journey in the village.
