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An Italian Town and Hotel Gets A Sugar Daddy

Where: Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Italy

This month, Travel and Leisure features a hotel in a teeny, tiny Italian town which has undergone a complete restoration, giving it the "charming but rustic" villa lifestyle that we fantasize about when we think of Italy.

And it's not just the hotel that is getting a makeover. Nope, an apparently rich preservationist is restoring the whole town too.

The little town of Sefano di Sessanio now has the Albergo Diffuso Santo Steano di Sessanio, made possible thanks to a handsome $5.1 million renovation tab. The place is described as:

a rustic-chic 30-room inn (14 more rooms will open this summer), complete with a weaver's atelier and herbalist. In a nod to the city's traditions, the emphasis throughout the hotel is on local craftsmanship, from the olive-oil soaps in the bathrooms right down to the handwoven bedcovers colored with Abruzzese plant dyes.

The hotel's website doesn't seem to have an English section but if you're the type of person who can visit ancient building/cathedral/castle day after day and not get sick of it, then you won't mind the medieval lodgings, albeit renovated, of this hotel.

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