
The Park
The centuries-old park and swimming pool will be your favorite place to relax.
The pool is available to all guests, as well as the Finnish sauna and the hot tub.
Breakfast
A hearty breakfast is essential in the morning.
Breakfast is served from 8:00 AM to 10:30 AM on the outdoor patio of the Relais on sunny days or in the indoor room in case of rain.
The staff is fully available to guests even in case of food intolerances or allergies.

General Information
Late check-out available upon request
Self Check-in
From 2 PM to 11 PM
Check-out
From 9 AM to 11 AM
Relais Villa Alma and Art
The Fratino Table
It was the ancient and characteristic table of the refectories in medieval convents: a long and narrow but very thick plank resting on straight, squared supports at the ends, placed on “sled” feet connected by a long longitudinal stretcher. A simple and austere table, along which the brothers sat close together, and which, due to the practicality of its shape, encouraged a kind of fraternal sharing when passing food, drinks, and bread to one another. From this origin, the term fratina came to describe any long, narrow wooden table. By the late seventeenth century, the shape of the legs evolved into two lyres (musical instruments) connected by a central stretcher.
Monsù Aurora
Although known as Monsù Aurora, few details are known about the life of Joannes Hermans. It is believed that he was born in Antwerp, where he was registered as a pupil of the painter Adriaen Willenhoudt in 1644. It is assumed that he worked in the studio of Jan Fijt, a specialist in still-life painting, as Hermans’ hand has been identified in one of Fijt’s collaborative works. He travelled to Italy, and his presence in Rome between 1657 and 1665 is documented. He enjoyed high-level patronage in Rome, as evidenced by the commission to decorate the Roman palace of Camillo Francesco Maria Panphili. He painted a large canvas and thirty-eight smaller compositions depicting living and dead animals, some set in marshy landscapes.
Gouaches
Gouache, also known as body color, is a type of tempera paint made heavier and more opaque by the addition of a white pigment (such as chalk or lead white) mixed with gum arabic (formerly gum tragacanth was preferred). The result is a paint that is more covering and opaque than traditional tempera.
Art Déco
The aesthetic taste that spread throughout Europe and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s arose from the desire to leave behind the horrors of the First World War. The keyword of what came to be known as the Art Déco style was modernity. The tragedy of the war marked the end of the Belle Époque in Europe and, with it, the end of the Art Nouveau style. In furniture design, the curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau were replaced by strict geometric lines to create more functional pieces. At the 1925 Paris Exhibition, particular success was achieved by the elegant and refined furniture of the Parisian designer Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (1879–1933), an illustrious exponent of this style, which dominated the early decades of the twentieth century, reviving the splendor of Parisian cabinetmaking. These were simple-shaped pieces of furniture, enhanced by the use of precious materials such as amaranth, Macassar ebony, and violet wood.
Still Life in the 19th Century
A particular pictorial genre emerged in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century: still life. Flowers, fruit, fish, game, everyday objects, musical instruments, and animals became, for the first time, the protagonists of the painting, arranged in harmonious and balanced compositions that revealed great attention to detail. Until then, the subjects of paintings were historical scenes or human figures; no one had conceived of a subject that was inanimate. Plants, animals, and food were present in paintings only as decorative elements complementing the main story. From the seventeenth century onward, they began to be treated as an independent subject. Thus was born a form of representation inspired by domestic life, highlighting the objects that characterized it and elevating them to symbols of the transience of life and the fleeting nature of beauty.
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