The building is 1000 years' old and has been recently renovated. We loved staying in our historic room, with its stone barrel-vaulted ceiling, the staff were very friendly and helpful and there are great views from the roof terrace. However, the experience of staying in such an ancient building is somewhat spoilt by the cheap formica furniture, particularly the very basic tables and chairs in the breakfast room, which felt more like a canteen as a result (great breakfast though) - older style wooden furniture would be much more in keeping with the building. There is no comfortable seating or shade on the upper terrace. Also, the hotel is right at the far end of the city and our taxi driver 'could not' find it (although it is on the main street), so we were not as central as we'd thought.