The Giovanetti manor has a long tradition of hospitality: a memorial plaque tells that among its guests there were the Grand Duke Leopold II, Aurelio Saffi and Antonio Fratti.
In 1816 Michele Giovannetti, landowner, bought the 18th century “palace with ten rooms and overstages, arcades and its land” and its nearby oratory of “Santa Maria della Neve”. At the end of the 19th century, the family also owned the farm below, situated by the bridge on the Bidente of Ridracoli, and the nearby mill “Mulino di sotto”.
Abandoned in the 60s, the manor, the land and the farmhouse were bought by Romagna Acque spa (the Regional Water Consortium) in 1980.
Nowadays the building complex, situated on a hillock between cypresses and firs, has become the hotel “Il Palazzo”. This joins past and present, the charm of a Tuscan manor with that of the “Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna” and of the nearby Ridracoli artificial basin.