This friendly bed-and-breakfast is a great option for pilgrims to the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent to view the Last Supper. In the evenings, the hip bars and restaurants of Parco Sempione are a walk away...
Telephone: +39 02 48014197
Url: www.leoloc.com
Price: from 165 EUR to 245 EUR
In a 19th-century flower-filled noble house, set back from the street through a private courtyard, is the Leonardo, run by husband-and-wife team Mario and Chiara (her real Japanese name is Yumi but there is no ‘y’ in Italian).
This friendly bed-and-breakfast is so-called because Chiara spent three long years translating a book on Da Vinci, and it attracts many art fans because of its proximity to his Last Supper. It comprises 20 three-star rooms on three floors (no lift, to preserve the antica feel). All are different in style: some are modern Japanese, some traditional Italian with repro antiques, some even with Chiara’s own art; all with cherrywood parquet floors and modest bathrooms. The best have a balcony overlooking the garden, which is full of flowers and foliage and white wrought-iron garden furniture.
The common areas are homely: a living room with comfy velvet sofas, and a dainty breakfast salon and bar, where tea and cakes, aperitivo and Mario’s potent grappa coffees are served.
