FACT OR FILM?
When the main gate of the Relais Villa Matilde closes behind you, you have no
doubts: in this magnificent 18th-century villa you are going to feel you are starring
in a film.
Remember Kubrick’s great epic “Barry Lyndon”? The period furnishings, paintings,
marbles, friezes, fireplaces, mirrors, stables turned into a restaurant and the
age-old park create the refined and genteel atmosphere which was the aim of the
hotel’s aristocratic owners, the Bocca family, who kept all this alive thanks
to loving restoration.
But where are we? In the old town of Romano Canavese, close to Turin, in the
Piedmont countryside which is famous for its gastronomy and its wines, on a direct
line with the Saint Bernard and Mont Blanc tunnels and just 40 kilometres from
Turin’s Caselle airport.
