Via San Lino, 26 56048 Volterra (PI) +39 0588 85250 info@hotelsanlino.com
Hotel San Lino became an accommodation in 1982, after going through very careful renovations targeted at mainting the original historical value of the old convent. The result is a hotel with all the modern day comforts, in an enviroment that looks back to the old times.
The current neoclassical building was part of the monastery of the order of the Poor Clares, whose construction dates back to the end of the 1400s.
The first stone was laid around 1480 and the factory completed in 1517.
Its first inhabitants where the sisters who were part of the rule of St. Elizabeth, who moved there in 1519. These young women passed from the third to the second Franciscan order, thus becoming nuns of the order of the Poor Clares. The fact is remembered in an inscription on a marble stone placed in the adjacent church of San Lino.
In 1786 the monastery was transformed into a conservatory and only in 1802 the cloister of the Franciscans of San Lino was restored. In 1934 the nuns passed to the religious order of St. Clare until 1978 when the vault of the church of San Lino, as well as the stability of the convent that they left in 1978.
After a long but wise restoration, on April 24, 1982 the current Hotel San Lino was born.
The convent had around 50 Poor Clares, personal cells had been built to embellish the convent and among the many initiatives we remember that of Sister Selvaggia Bava who had the central cloister paved.
In 1786 the monastery was transformed into a conservatory and only in 1802 the cloister of the Franciscans of San Lino was restored.
In 1810 the building was used as a French court and only in 1819 did the nuns return, but the building was no longer suitable for seclusion and was used as a school for children between 6 and 9 years old until the early 1900s.
In 1934 the nuns of San Lino passed to the religious order of S. Chiara, living a cloistered life until 1972, when a sudden collapse of the vault of the church of San Lino also compromised the stability of the convent which they left in 1978.
In the 1980s, five families from Volterra (Bartaloni, Guerrieri, Gennai, Grandolgi and Moretti) acquired the building and after a long but skilful restoration, gave life to the current Hotel San Lino which saw the light on 24 April 1982.
The rooms overlooking Via San Lino allow you to enjoy the view of one of the most evocative medieval streets, which is also a passageway for the parades of the town districts and the famous flag-wavers of Volterra.
