A favourite of models and power brokers, the Four Season's fabulously chic hotel on Via Gesù, in the heart of the quadrilatero d'oro, combines super-luxe facilities with the well-conserved remnants of this former 15th century convent. Today, there's nothing nun-like about its current clientele...
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Price: from EUR 638
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Staying at the award-winning Four Seasons – which rose phoenix-like from the ashes of a 15th-century convent right in the centre of Fashion Central – commands considerable status.
In a rare (and winning) mix of old and new, the Four Seasons has conserved the convent’s few remaining frescos, columns and cloisters – visible in the Il Foyer piano bar (originally the chapel; now serving excellent and expensive Bloody Marys to Milan’s power classes) and the quieter chianti-coloured library with a real fireplace. Two restaurants – Il Teatro (see Eat) and La Veranda, plus vast banqueting facilities (where affluent Milanese host their wedding receptions), a fitness room and a picturesque courtyard garden should answer most needs.
All 77 super-luxe rooms and 41 suites come with plasma TVs and DVD players, music systems (and compilation CDs), heated marble bathroom floors and steam-proof mirrors, and all guests are provided with complimentary mobile phones because the reception here is not always perfect. If all this doesn’t satisfy, ‘everything is possible’ with the Four Seasons’ famed six-star service (at high five-star prices).
