http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T02:32:33Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Gore%20Vidal http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/15/111054/264 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/gorevidal.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.globorati.com/ravello/">Globorati</a> reports that <b>Gore Vidal's</b> house in Ravello, Italy--named <b>The Swallow's Nest</b>, will be turned into a luxury hotel. The seven-bedroom manse that belonged to Vidal until five years ago will reopen next spring to hotel guests.<p><blockquote><p>The setting of the seven-bedroom mansion is impossibly remote, suspended over a bluff facing the Mediterranean and accessed by only a private pathway winding up the cliffside hills. <p>In homage to the last surviving giant of American literature, Palumbo plans to leave the ground-floor studio with Vidal&#146;s personal library and artifacts intact.</blockquote></p><p>Indeed, two years ago when the house was first sold, <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/vidals-clifftop-villa-sells-for-a-steep-23m/2006/02/27/1141020021192.html">The Age</a> reported on what the hotelier Vicenzo Palumbo would keep of Vidal's and it includes a lot: juliana 2008-07-15T13:00:16-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/