My husband & I are planning a trip to Italy in late Sept thru late Oct. We have booked convents in Florence & Rome. I read on a previous thread about convents in Spoleto & Todi, but no email or fax number was given. Does anyone possibly have this information? Thanks for your help.
I have a copy of Bed and Blessings by June Walsh. She lists a place in Todi called Pensionato Santissima Annunziata Via San Biagio, 2 Tel. & Fax (075) 894 2268 The kisting indicates a 10:30 curfew Languages: Italian, French, & German
The book doesn't have a listing for Spoleto.
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I was just in Todi for two weeks in February and checked out this convent. I did not stay there but the sisters showed me around. It looked wonderful and was 30 Euro a night per person.
I'd stayed out of this one so far because I just couldn't find any fax or e‑mail for either convent, but can confirm that the SS. Annunziata looked very nice to me (and have a photograph taken inside it, if not exactly relevant to your concerns, in my diary account of my visit there).
The other convenient, the Sacro Cuore on the other side of town, I have stayed in, but you probably already saw that as you say; again, have been unable to find fax/e‑mail there either so far.
Deborah, Tim & Bill, thanks for all of the information. It was your earlier thread that spurred my search, Bill. We really like the idea of staying in convents, not just because they are reasonable, but for the total experience, as most of them are historical buildings. The idea of a curfew doesn't bother us at all, as we are seniors, & not "swinging seniors". Since we will be in Umbria in Oct I am hoping we can find a place to stay in Spoleto without having a reservation.
I can't find the Pensionato of Santissima Annunziata in the phone book but this is the number of the tourist office of Todi. +39 075 8943395 If you are lucky enough to find someone speaking English, you could ask them to mail you a list of monasteries offering accommodation
I've stayed at the S. Ponziano in Spoleto, and gushed about it on this board, too. Diary account is here, with phone numbers too, and you are certainly well served in historical buildings there! Not only is the church of S. Ponziano one of the most interesting in Umbria, but S. Salvatore in the cemetery only 300 meters away (I have, natch, a map in front of me), is one of the sights of Umbria and Spoleto, which of course nobody sees because it's not in the canonical list, or not near the center, or whatever. . . . For a dim adumbration of the glories of S. Salvatore, see different page of diary for now; I really gotta get in gear and write proper sites for these places.
Not too far from Spoleto is the incredibly beautiful Abbazia San Pietro in Valle, www.sanpietroinvalle.com. I have toured the monastery but have never been an overnight guest. I believe it was Grinisa who authored a trip report (something like Saints and Berlusconi) which mentions a stay at San Pietro in Valle. Sounded like a divine experience.
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Can vouch for the beauty of S. Pietro in Valle; but this is no convent, but a very expensive, and once very reclusive place to stay; glad to see they've finally put a website up: about once a year or so I'd been looking for it, grazie Bags!
The frescoes are the finest Romanesque anywhere in Umbria; and some of the Roman stuff is Vatican Museums quality. The area (the Valnerina) is remotish, mind you; as befits an abbey. On the other hand the Valnerina is the beauty spot of predilection to the Umbrians themselves. And cars even out remoteness, I guess.
Oddly enough, my little diary account of my only visit there a few years back seems to have better photos than the Residenza's site, so here they are.
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