Haunted hotels | Hotel Burchianti, Florence, Italy
If the reports are anything to go by, the Hotel Burchianti is absolutely riddled with ghosts. There’s supposedly a child who goes skipping down the corridors, a woman sat in her chair knitting and a maid who still goes about her cleaning duties in the early hours.
It’s the Fresco Room that is most likely to send shivers down the spine, however. It may have a beautiful painted ceiling, but numerous guests have reported disturbing phenomena. These include the feeling of being watched, the sensation of icy breath on the face and an apparition of a man with a pink glow.
This was the room that Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini supposedly once stayed in. Maybe there’s some kind of connection? Either way, the Burchianti is not the place you book into if you’re nervous about ghoulish goings-on.
Copyright David Whitley
