Palazzo Gattini, 5*****L, Matera
The environment Dive down into old times , bringing back to life the greatest moments of the Gattini: the oldest noble family of Matera. During the time-honored history of Matera La Civita was the noble and safe place par excellence, today a peerless and valuable core. Overstepping Palazzo Gattini means going back to old times and thus room after room you will be living through the splendor of more than six centuries of the oldest noble family of Matera: the Gattini Counts. The Palazzo, after its ancient and noble scenario, has been renewed and has opened its doors to the town as well as to travelers. Keeping up its luster in its new life, Palazzo Gattini is a historic place of value. The furnishings have turned out to be the result of the best local craftsmen’s creations, who helped to enrich and embellish the palace. The mazzaro, a local stone used for indoor environments, keeps the guest close to the matter and brings him back to ancestral old times, diving into the stories of the ancient streets of Matera.
How you will reside Peerless and exclusive: every Palazzo Gattini room has a story to tell. A luxury for the few! Twenty rooms, each unique in its own way. Every open door tells a story, a legend… They twist themselves round inside one another and tells the memories of the family that lived for years these places. The taste of past centuries is tied up with the technology and modern comfort.
How you will eat Palazzo Gattini offers its guests top services and activities. In the morning, a rich breakfast buffet awaits you with traditional products, experiencing through flavors and fragrances. If you love savory breakfast, then simply enter the ancient cheese rooms of the palace and taste local meats and dairy products. Everything will be well matched with the traditional Matera bread, which goes great with the honey and jam made by a reliable local producer. The Duomo Cafè is a secret and sophisticated place where at any time of the day you can take a break. Just next to the Palace, the Duomo Cafè is the only and exclusive place in the Cathedral’s square, an intimate and sophisticated café where you can take a break at any time, from breakfast to lunch to aperitif. Out there local people enjoy warm summer evenings and the music during the long aperitifs, the ideal place where to mingle with people and enjoy easy talking. The Don Matteo restaurant awaits you to taste local flavors and scents. From season to season, ingredients change to give you the best quality, taste and tradition. Palazzo Gattini provides unusual places and enchanting corners made to impress.
The wellness choice For your relax, the Gattini SPA offers paths of wellness treatments surrounded by cisterns and caves carved into the stone. This SPA evokes ancient noble bathrooms. Hammam, massages and treatments, whirlpools for wellness treatments. One of the aspects that the Staff take care of with greater attention is the comfort of guests, always searching new elements to enrich and to add further value to the experience that is possible to make at Palazzo Gattini Hotel. A very important novelty enriches our offer SPA, the guests and the visitors now can dive into the “swim-pull of float therapy” and having an experience that gives relax and relaxation to their body and their mind; the guests abandon himself completely and in total calm to the strength and the power of the water, into an architectural context in which the tub is situated is suggestive: it is a cistern where the silence, the slim light and a sense of warm reception predominate in a pleasant environment which favors, stimulates and reconciles the sense of abandonment.
Amenities Sassi of Matera: the most striking sculpture of stone ever made in the human history. A UNESCO Wonder. Landscape and nature itineraries, through Mediterranean flavors and taste, literary and artistic places telling us the history of Southern Italy. Matera and Basilicata, the lands to explore. From a shame place to our national pride. The dramatic and fascinating story of the town of the Sassi. Glimpse into an exciting strolling living human events, architectural and landscape that saw Matera, once the “scandal” of Italy, reborn from its ruins and came back to being the most amazing stone sculpture ever made in the human history. The most striking sculpture of stone ever made in the human history.
