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Simply perfect

Lubasha132015on 18/08/2016 21:25

Beautiful place, very nice environment, friendly stuff, clean rooms with air conditioners. Close to Mantova, only 4 km, but very quite. It is the right place both for famalies and for romantic holidays in a couple.

Lovely peaceful setting

JimEFCon 16/06/2014 08:29

We stayed a week here in early June. It is easy to get to by car from Verona Airport, from other directions it could be tricky for the first time. About 1.5 miles outside Mantova, which is walkable or, much better, cyclable. You can cycle into Mantua without going on a public road except for a tiny bit just before you cross the bridge. The facilities and terrain for cycling in the area are great, and we are not exactly keen cyclists. There are bikes available free from the agriturismo. It is quite popular with cyclists because it lies on the cycle path to Lake Garda. A very warm welcome when we arrived, some good advice as to where to go. The accommodation is part of a working farm, previously a monastery site, growing mostly fruit and rice from what we could see. The bedrooms are a modern block - good size rooms, not luxurious but very good, a fridge in the room would have been nice. Good breakfast with local produce, later in the season there would have been more of their own fruit available.
Really very nice spot. There could be problems with biting insects in this area, not particularly this agriturismo but because of the flat terrain and all the water, so come prepared for that particularly later in the season. There is a whole lot to see in Mantova, which is not overrun with tourists at all. Parking in the city is difficult but easy enough outside the centre.
There are two good, popular restaurants next to each other within a 15-minute walk of the agriturismo, it is not necessary to go into Mantova to eat, and there are a couple of huge supermarkets nearby as well.

Wonderful

MrMrsSSon 22/02/2013 11:53

I have read some of the reviews and can say i feel quite protective about this place; my husband and I came here as part of our 12 day 'mini tour' of Italy.
The first impressions were incredible, a lovely converted monestry and working watermill dating back to 1420.
We were welcomed with open arms and whilst the sleeping quarters are basic, they are well appointed, clean and well kept. I personally have many many issues with mucky places and poor hygiene.
The breakfast was great.
Bikes are provided and it is a short ride to the magnificant town centre where there's plenty to visit and lots of cafe's with wonderful meals to experience; I fell in love with their pumpkin pasta (I'm a veggie).
The enviroment lends itself perfectly to exploring on a bike and is not at all hard work.
There is a small pizza place across the main road from this location which I would also recommend :-)
We extended our stay as it was ever so peaceful and would go back in a blink!
Thank you to the team at Girolamo!

What a disappointment

gina don 10/01/2012 13:44

We received a very warm welcome and that was about the only positive part of our 1 night stay at this "Agriturismo". I found it extremely expensive at Euro 90 for the night.
The website is beautiful with the lovely main house covered in Ivy which is where one would take for granted the rooms would be.... The rooms unfortunately where in a new rectangular complex away from the main house and really sad and cold. It felt like being in a private clinic instead of a hotel.
The bedroom heating was by "hot air"! We specifically booked her for the night to get away from the chaos of the city and stay in tranquility and instead we spent what was left of the evening listening to the heating blowing away hot air to heat the room. Very anoinying to say the least.
There was not even a bottle of water or some welcome snack in the room not having a bar fridge. Not to mention the fact that in the mornng we ran out of toilet paper and there was no spare roll. This for Euro 90!!!!!
The breakfast was very poor. Some old looking bread and homemade cakes and jams. Nothing salty except for some cheese wedges - one would expect at least an array of coldmeats and fresh cheeses considering the area and the "agriturismo"!
I would definately not recomend this place, well surely not at that price.It just is not worth it.

OK, but far

maa34on 27/09/2011 13:46

This was the second time I went to Mantova and still haven´t found a really nice hotel (maybe because no one stays in Mantua!! Try lake Garda instead). San Girolamo was much better than the hotel in town I stayed before (ABC). It was suggested by my friends in Mantova, who came to pick me up all the time (otherwise, it could have been a little difficult to find the place). Said that, the hotel is OK. Rooms were clean. Silent. Breakfast was OK for Italian standards (i.e., no big deal). I think the Italians nowadays prefer this kind of countryside hotels, instead of the old places that all the tourists love in Italy. So, this is not the place for foreigners who want to fell like ´this is Italy´. It´s a good choice if you really need to stay in Mantua. If you have a car, try staying in lake Garda (Sermione is nice) and spending the day in Mantua.