The Grand Hotel Vesuvio is Bellini’s favourite hotel in Naples - built in 1882, and centrally located on the waterfront, overlooking Santa Lucia Harbor and the Bay of Naples. In this ‘Grand Dame’ style hotel, the staff are beautifully attentive and most of the rooms and suites have balconies or terraces with exceptional views of the Mediterranean, Vesuvio, Capri, Sorrento, and Posillipo. The hotel is delightfully old-fashioned in style and was a huge favourite of Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, and Clarke Gable. The famous tenor Enrico Caruso made the Vesuvio his Neopolitan home and spent the last years of his life resident at the hotel, here in the city of his birth. The ‘Caruso Roof Garden’ on the ninth floor bears his name, and from here you can enjoy the marvelous views over the Gulf of Naples.
The bustle of the city is never far away and after a drink in the Caruso Roof Garden, head out to dinner in the harbour by Castel dell’Ovo (across the coast road from the hotel) which is an unusually calm and romantic treat. Otherwise, head into the more edgy streets of Spaccanapoli, the heart of old Naples laid out on the Roman grid plan, and have an authentic pizza from the place where it was invented. If you like to mix with the Neapolitan intelligentsia, try the bar on the ground floor. The Vesuvio is also well- known for its spa with turkish baths, aromatherapy and juice bar.
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