Have a look at the hotels for the 2014 BCCC of CSULB Italy Performance Tour

Next month, in June 2014, the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University - Long Beach Choir - under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Talberg, will be traveling to Italy on a 11-day performance tour proudly presented by Incantato Concert Tours.

Please find below a hotel overview for their homes away from home in beautiful Italy.

 From June 1 to June 3, 2014 the choir will stay at the 4-star Domus Mariae Palazzo Carpegna in Rome. The hotel is housed in a Renaissance-inspired mansion, surrounded by a seven-hectare Roman garden that overlooks the Villa Carpegna park.
The hotel offers guests 200 rooms divided between Classic Rooms, Executive Rooms and Tower Prestige Suites, ample car parking facilities and free wireless internet connection in the hotel’s public areas.
Two restaurants are located within the hotel: Le Restaurant and Il Colonnato, together with “Il Chiostro” Café & Bistro and open from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm offering a selection of light, tasty dishes for lunch, dinner or aperitifs.

Their next home away from home will be in Rieti from June 3 to June 6, 2014 at Hotel Grande Albergo Quattro Stagioni. The hotel is located inside a nineteenth-century building, situated in the historical center of Rieti between the City-hall square and that of the Prefecture, and next to the Romanic Cathedral of Saint Mary.
The hotel has 43 rooms, most of which providing views over the gardens of the Prefecture with its historical Vignola Loggia, and other rooms overlooking the City-hall building and square with the famous Dolphin Fountain.  The rooms are equipped with indipendently controlled air conditioning, minibar, flat screen LCD TV’s with satellite channels, Wi-Fi internet connection, direct-dial telephone and hairdryer. The hotel breakfast offers an extensive variety of items such as eggs, bacon, ham, cheeses, brioches, home made cakes, cereals and many more products.

In Florence they group will stay at Villa Pitiana from June 6 to June 8, 2014. It is located in the Tuscan countryside. The villa still retains the articulated architecture of a millenary history, from the foundation as a fortified farm, to the utilization as Benedectine monastery and eventually to the conversion in nobleman elegant Villa in the 19th century. Architecture, decorations and furniture maintain memory of past ages and styles. Each room is furnished in antiques. The exclusive room in the Medieval Tower, Junior suites with a view over Valdarno landscape, Superior rooms with antique furniture and Classic rooms.




The last home away from home will be 4-star hotel Michelangelo from June 8 to June 10, 2014 in Milan. The hotel is located at 33 Via Scarlati, just down the block from the central rail station. It offers over 300 rooms including singles, doubles, triples and even luxurious suites. The rooms are equipped with magnetic key card entry, satellite television, mini bar, soundproof walls, individually controlled air conditioning and direct phone lines etc.