travel42 Hotel Review: Mecenate Palace Hotel

Mecenate Palace Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel is located in a mostly residential neighborhood, four short blocks south of the train station (an easy haul with luggage), a 10-minute walk from Piazza Repubblica.

The name suggests more elegance than this trumped-up bed-and-breakfast has, and calling it a palace falls into the same verbal shenanigans as calling LA the "City of Angels."

Still, it is one of the best boutique-hotels in this neighborhood, two or three times better than any of the ho...