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Palazzo Busdraghi, with a striking, period elegance, is a new 4-star hotel in Lucca, created from an old town house of the same name in Via Fillungo, the main street in the historic centre of the town. The Lucchese would call it a 'Residenza d'Epoca'.
This splendid Lucca hotel faces on to Via Fillungo, Lucca’s main street. Palazzo Busdraghi dates back to the 16th century and has an irregular rectangular shape with a complex distribution of internal space that derives from the earlier medieval buildings. It is bounded on three sides by Via Fillungo, Via Busdraghi and Via del Portico. The entrance to the courtyard from Via Fillungo is through a 16th-century covered loggia, with a beautiful portal with Doric columns in the Civitali style. The house had a family association with The Company of the Cross, whose role was to assist people who were condemned to death and to give hospitality to pilgrims.
There is also a large and very lovely garden behind the long wall on Via Busdraghi. This name (as well as the property) became the family's through the marriage of Anna di Michele Bartolomei to Giuseppe Francesco Busdraghi in 1701.
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The façade in Via Fillungo dates from 1500 and has a wood-panelled door and family crests set into an old fanlight, with columns on the outside and in the courtyard in the style of the 16th century Lucchese artists.
Jacopo di Piero Busdraghi was already living in the area in 1340, renting a property described as "extra portam" in the San Pietro Somaldi district, while the family’s principal house was the one owned by Giuseppe Francesco in Via San Giorgio. This he sold, with the consent of the General Council, to Lelio Ottorini who later sold it to the Marquises of Meuron. They also owned a ‘beautiful villa with an olive grove’ in Pozzuolo (then called Quilici).
This Lucca hotel is soaked in history then, as is the city itself. You will spend many enjoyable days exploring this quite beautiful and relatively undiscovered medieval walled city. Good shops, bars and restaurants, historic churches and palazzos, the cathedral and the tree-topped walls themselves ... there is so much to explore.
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