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A Renaissance villa in the Valpolicella hills turned contemporary-art museum-hotel — 200-plus works by Kapoor, Hirst and Cattelan, Mendini interiors, minutes from Verona.
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World’s Most Inspired Design Hotel
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30 minutes Art Tour, to enjoy all pieces of art located in the Hotel and free upgrade upon availability
Need To Know
- More than fifty rooms and suites, each individually designed by Alessandro Mendini and hung with original art, from Grand Superior doubles to the concept and Presidential suites
- Two restaurants: the gastronomic Amistà and the regional Saor, both under Chef Donato De Leonardis; Peter's Bar and a 16th-century cellar of 1,600-plus labels
- eSPAce Byblos spa on a Pompeian-baths theme — hydromassage pool, sauna, Turkish bath, sensory showers, Technogym gym, Sothys treatments
- An outdoor pool among the vineyards (mid-May to end September) with a raised relaxation oasis of two jacuzzis
- A 20,000 m² park of fountains, sculpture and centuries-old trees; weddings and events a speciality
- Verona airport about 15 minutes; a shuttle runs to the city and its Arena
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The art — more than two hundred works through the rooms, halls and park, by names like Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Quinn and Vanessa Beecroft, a contemporary museum you happen to sleep inside.
- Alessandro Mendini's design — the late master's colour and sculptural form set against the villa's Renaissance marble and frescoes, every room individually conceived, none like the next.
- The villa itself — a 16th-century Sanmicheli core rebuilt in the 1700s, set in a 20,000 m² park of fountains, sculpture and centuries-old olive trees among the Valpolicella vines.
- The table — Chef Donato De Leonardis's tasting menus at the gastronomic Amistà, regional cooking at Saor, the pagodas in the park for summer lunches, and a 16th-century cellar of 1,600 labels in the heart of Amarone country.
- The Verona position — fifteen minutes from the city of Romeo and Juliet and its Arena opera season, with Lake Garda, Venice and the Valpolicella wineries all within reach.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Byblos Art
€423.20 for 1 Night
Location
Address
via Cedrare 78, 37029 Corrubbio di Negarine (Verona) – Italia
Travel Info
Verona airport is about fifteen minutes by car and the city centre and its Arena a little more, with a hotel shuttle to town. The villa sits among the Valpolicella vineyards at Corrubbio di Negarine; Lake Garda, Venice and the wine estates are all within easy reach.
Nearby Places
Verona Airport
18km
Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Villa Amistà was a ruin with a pedigree before it became a hotel. It stands on the remains of a Roman casa forte in the Valpolicella hills outside Verona; in the sixteenth century Michele Sanmicheli, the great Veronese master of the Renaissance, raised its central body in the Venetian style, and the present building was completed in the 1700s by the architect Ignazio Pellegrini. Frescoes and fragments from both eras survive inside, recovered through careful restoration.
Its modern life began when the Facchini family — founders of the Byblos fashion house and serious collectors of contemporary art — fell for the abandoned villa and resolved to make it something singular. They handed the interiors to Alessandro Mendini, the late grand master of Italian design, who set his own exuberant colour and sculptural form against the villa's classical marble and frescoes, and then filled the house with their collection. The result is not a hotel with art on the walls but a working museum of contemporary art you can sleep inside: more than two hundred works through the rooms, the halls and the 20,000-square-metre park.
The names are serious — Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Quinn, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Vanessa Beecroft among them — and the encounters are deliberately startling, a chewing-gum businessman falling from the lobby ceiling, a Kapoor mirror bending the light, a Hirst butterfly mandala over a Baroque sofa. Around it all runs the rest of a serious five-star villa: two restaurants under one chef, a spa on a Pompeian theme, a vineyard pool, and a sixteenth-century cellar deep in Amarone country. Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet, is fifteen minutes down the road.
Top Secret
Find the quiet walkway to the right of the pool restaurant and climb the stairs: at the top is a raised relaxation oasis with two outdoor jacuzzis and loungers, screened from the rest of the park — the spot to claim for sunset, and bookable for exclusive use if you want it to yourselves. Time a stay to the summer and dinner moves outdoors to the pagodas among the vines.
The Review
Byblos Art Hotel is a genuine one-off: a Renaissance villa in the Valpolicella hills that the founders of the Byblos fashion label turned into a contemporary-art museum with rooms. The premise sounds like a gimmick and is not — the collection is real and major, the design is by Alessandro Mendini, and the building under it is a sixteenth-century Sanmicheli villa rebuilt in the eighteenth, so the past and the present strike sparks off each other in every hall.
It works because the hotel around the art is properly good. The fifty-odd rooms are each individually designed and hung with original work; the food runs from Chef Donato De Leonardis's tasting menus at the gastronomic Amistà to regional cooking at Saor and summer lunches in pagodas among the vineyards; the cellar holds more than 1,600 labels in the heart of Amarone and Recioto country; and the Pompeian-themed spa, the vineyard pool and the hidden jacuzzi oasis cover the hours between galleries. The 20,000-square-metre park, with its fountains, sculpture and centuries-old olive, is a gallery in its own right.
The position seals it. Verona — the Arena and its summer opera season, the balconies of Romeo and Juliet — is fifteen minutes away by the hotel shuttle, with Lake Garda, Venice and the Valpolicella wine estates all within an easy drive. It suits the traveller who treats a hotel as part of the trip rather than a base for it: somewhere you would happily spend a full day inside, moving from a Cattelan to a tasting menu to a vineyard swim, before the city even enters the plan.
