The restructuration

Nowadays, in Italy there is a new tendency: to restore each old building with static consolidations and functional restylings. These architectural restorations aim is to give back to city life and urban property the building, which before of the intervention was very deteriorated, rearranging the existing volumes and the valuable elements in order to obtain a functional recovery and a static consolidation of the carrying structures. The specific modalities of intervention have been particulary differentiated case by case according to the formal or structural element on which one operates.
The functional is intended to assign the Palazzo to activities of a four start Hotel.

At the end of 1980's the Palazzo Piccolomini was completely deteriorated and unused. No directional, commercial or residental activities were present in it because the Palazzo was on verge of collapsing in several parts, for example: the roof. In the 1991 the owner of real estate, decided to restore the Palazzo changing it into an amazing "four star" Hotel.

Today, The Hotel Palazzo Piccolomini is remarkable for its beautiful palace created for the pontifical family Piccolomini at the end of the 16th century, above of the pre-existing medieval buildings. The recent and accurate restoration has given new splendour to the different age-long structures; from refined facade overlooking Piazza Ranieri down to the underground rooms cut into the tufa mass, on which the Etruscan Orvieto rises.

The restoration has preserved its artistic and historical riches, and yet has not neglected any comfort suited to a high-hotel.