travel42 Hotel Review: Splendido, A Belmond Hotel

Splendido, A Belmond Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

At the end of a winding private road, up the hill from its more modest portside sibling Hotel Splendido Mare, this property is still King of the Ligurian coast. Service remains a high point, and the accommodations are in fine shape, all recently redone.

The hotel rose from the ruins of a 16th-century monastery only to become the coast's shining beacon of La Dolce Vita, luring a who's-who of the late 1950s and 1960s. These days it still manages to attract ...