Eremo Casa Del Sorriso in Erice (Italy)

Eremo Hotel is a receptive structure realized in the places of the ex convent of the smaller monks cappuccini on the slopes of the Erice mountain. The cellettes (little rooms) where they withdrew him and they lodged those people who wanted to become monks, today they have been turned into calm and comforting rooms for the guests coming from every part of the world.The hotel is the ideal place for a vacation, for conferences and days of professional formation, for days of spirituality; the hotel has 34 rooms: (single, double, matrimonial) all endowed with telephone, predisposition TV, bath deprived with shower, set of courtesy, closet, leans suitcases, shelf comodino with reading lamp, chair, taken light (220V).Restaurant 130 covered - Services - 2 Rooms readings with fireplace and television - Room cafe - historical Library with posting internet - A room lecture from 80 places, equipped with: System of videoconference - Plant of professional amplification - bright Blackboard - Video projector - Screen for projection - sheets Blackboard furniture - Poltroncine with footlight. Besides, to the inside the are found Treasures of the hermitage , produced alimentary genuine, picked, worked and manufactured in the same hermitage, the Franciscan book industry and the oggettistica coming from the artisan shops of different countries of the world.Outside Eremo hotel is surrounded by the green of a park that furnishes a natural frame to the moments of relax. Abandoned on a slope of the Erice mountain, and sets on more levels. the estate extends him for some hectares around the hermitage: here it is possible to always make long walks and way of living a new experience. From more points it enjoys him some sight on the underlying valleys, on the coast trapanese and hisher salt pans; in the sea the splendid islands Egadis are hacked. In the whole park, angles characterized by different plants, represent a true botanical heaven. Besides, to the inside an ample usable amphitheater is found for stage representations but also as I space polyvalent for events or ceremonies. Bordering it is found you, the garden to terraces, integral part of the estate that is biologically cultivated for to guarantee produced by the genuine tastes, only.The cloister of the hotel is a small heaven of quiet and reflection. Heart of the structure, suggestive and pleasant, is dominated and at the same protected time from a splendid tree of citrus fruit, a 207 year-old secular plant that on the same branches produces together splendid, gilded lemons and warm, colored oranges! The spirit of reception that characterizes the house is begun to perceive since the entry. The zone of reception mirrors the style of the ancient monastery anticipating the quiet that is characteristic of the hermitage. The room from lunch recalls the ancient commensalit monastic in which the pleasure of the sharing is sought. The Sicilian typical cuisine - but also some international dishes - youthey are almost exclusively realized with the products of the garden of the hermitage. The rooms, calm, comforting and all endowed with private bagnodoccia and telephone, are drawn from the ancient cells of the monks and they make to rediscover the pleasure of the simplicity: it arrives through corridors that bring back us in the time making us perceive today still the strong spirituality of these places.

Rates From £37 per night.
Rooms: 38
Accommodation Type: Hotel

By airplane:From the airport Trapani-Birgi; service shuttle public for the station in Trapani (around 15 kms); from the station, bus of line for Erice Vetta or for the station of valley of the funivia (time climbed: 10 minutes). From the airport Falcon-purse in Palermo; service of line public for the central station in Trapani (around 70 kms); from the station, service of line for Erice Vetta or for the station of valley of the funivia.By car:Highway Palermo-Trapani (A29); to the exit to follow indications for Erice (13 kms); the journey is of 15 minutes.In alternative, to follow the indications for the funivia, endowed with ample parking lot near the station of valley (time climbed: 10 minutes).BY train: Reaches the station in Trapani to continue for Erice through the comfortable service of line. The tickets for the funivia are purchasable also on line on www.funiviaerice.it where you will also find the schedules and the rates.