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 Great Travels
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High-grade Hotels Of Italy: The high-grade hotels of Italy are such an exceptionally colorful lot that I think they deserve exceptionally detailed coverage and I shall list the outstanding places that I know from personal experience of them in some forty odd cities, towns and resorts, setting down these communities
in alphabetical order. I should mention parenthetically that hotels entitled
to an official de luxe rating sometimes prefer, and secure, only a first-class
rating. They do this for "business purposes," one purpose being to entitle
themselves to lower official tariffs, thus stimulating patronage.
A carpet is judged by the depth of pile, the closeness of weave (i.e., the number of picks, wires, or rows per inch), and the quality and selection of wools used. A high-grade worsted Wilton will have 13 wires to the inch, a medium-grade, 11; a high-grade wool Wilton will have 9l/2 wires per inch, a medium-grade, 8. On the other hand, a high-grade Axminster will have 11 rows, and a low-grade, 5. But the most important factor in the construction of a carpet is the quality and selection of the wools used.
Carpet wool. Wools from which carpets are woven in the United States are imported from Scotland, the Argentine, China, Italy, Afghanistan, Spain, Tibet, Persia, Egypt, Syria, India, Turkey, Iraq, Iceland, and Russia. Australian and American wools are too fine and soft for use.
GENOA: Of the knot of hotels in Piazza Acquaverde, at Genoa's chief railway station, the Colombia-Excelsior is the only one in the official listing with the big L for Luxe, but I think you will like the less expensive Savoy-Majestic quite as well, and in some ways better, for this is one of the most modern hotels in Italy and has been completely rebuilt since a severe bombing in the war. It is air-conditioned and has every conceivable refinement. It is my belief that this place, typical of others in Italy could certainly have an official luxury rating, but in that case its prices would have to be raised. The present proprietor, an experienced hotel "psychologist," seems to prefer the lesser, first-class rating—and tariffs.
GUNCINA: Castello Guncind, a castle metamorphosed into a good hotel,
high above Bolzano, is reached by funicular.
LA MENDOLA: The Penegal and the Golf are two first-class summer hotels on a mountain shelf (reached by funicular) above the Adige Valley, near Bolzano.
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