The Grand Hotel Continental is the only five star luxury hotel in Siena, located in the heart of its exquisite historical city center steps away from the famous Piazza del Campo where every year the Palio horse race takes place. The Palio is the most important event in Siena, taking place on July 2 and August 16 every year. This hotel offer an exclusive setting in a magnificent 17th century palazzo no less than a paragon of fine Renaissance architecture, with opulent rooms boasting original frescoes, priceless artworks and precious antique furniture. This grand palace, also known as Palazzo Gori Pannilini, was originally build as a wedding gift from Pope Alexander VII, a member of the powerful Chigi family to his niece Olimpia and her fiancée Giulio de’ Gori. The Grand Hotel Continental welcomes its guests with its majestic elegance, beneath the original frescoes that adorn the vaulted ceilings of many of the rooms and with its original Tuscan cotto tiled floors that reverberate with 400 years of history. All of the 51 rooms and suites, luxuriously appointed with antique paintings and opulent furnishings, evoke a centuries-old, aristocratic atmosphere. Each room is a masterpiece, with its own unique and inimitable character, that has been refined over the centuries.