Albergo Diffuso

The Albergo Diffuso, an innovative concept of hospitality, was launched in Italy in the early 1980s as a means of reviving small, historic Italian villages and town centres off the usual tourist track. Translated into English as "dispersed hotel", "scattered hotel" or "virtual hotel", it is a hotel that is not in a single block, but converted out of various historic buildings in a small community. It has to conform to the following conditions: