Piccolo Gellia B&b

Agrigento, Italy Youth Hostels

Piccolo Gellia lies right in the town centre, on the main road, "Via Atenea". It is the first floor of a 19th century's house, in a typical ancient apartment that has been recently renovated.

In the fifth century, at the time of the Greeks, Gellia was a well-known character of Agrigento, who became famous for his legendary hospitality. About that, the historicist Diodoro Siculo tells that every evening he used to send his slaves at the gates of Akragas to see if there was anybody who needed to be welcomed. It is told that once he even gave hospitality to five hundred soldiers from Gela, forced to remain in town because of the bad weather: he fed them and even gave them new tunics and cloaks.

In more recent times, and till not so many years ago, Gellia gave his name to an important hotel of Agrigento: the "Grand Hotel Gellia et Grande Bretagne"; it lied in the very heart of the town, on the main road, and confined with Vicolo Gozza, where our house, now the B&B, lies. That's why we called our B&B "Piccolo Gellia"- which means "little Gellia"-as to resume the sentiments from which it rises, sentiments of welcome and hospitality.

Directions

If you travel by train or by bus you will arrive respectively at "piazza Marconi" or at "piazzale Fratelli Rosselli"; here you can take a bus and get off in piazza Gallo, less than 100 metres from the BB. If you don't have too much luggage, and you enjoy walking, the way from Piazzale Marconi-the bus station- to the BB is not more than 900 metres away, on the main road and almost all flat level.

From the train station the way is almost similar and the distance is 800 metres.

If you travel by car it is enough if -entering Agrigento- you follow the direction "centre" and you will arrive to the main road, via Atenea, where the B&B is. Usually, even when access is forbidden, the policemen will understand you, and let you go on, if you just explain him that you are guests of "Piccolo Gellia" and that you need to leave the luggage.

After you leave the luggage, it is better to move the car from via Atenea; so I suggest you go to the car park that is in via Empedocle 1, not more than 400 metres from the B&B. After leaving your car, you will easily find, on the other side of the road, the shortest way back on foot -five minutes walk.

Facilities

Breakfast Included, Internet Access, Breakfast Not Included, Air Conditioning, Breakfast

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Agrigento, Italy Youth Hostels

Agrigento, Italy Youth Hostels