Additional wings and a tower-like extra storey contribute to the maze of unpredictable openings, corners and corridors.The hall has kept the original nature of court it once had: the ogival arches are of Moorish influence; precious ancient Greek and Roman marble columns from Paestum and the Amalfi Coast;multicolour ceramic floors made of tiles with geometric and floral patterns, Pasquale Vuilleumier and John Huston designed them in 1952 while "The African Queen" was being filmed at the hotel; stairs climb to the upper levels in a feast of ornaments and elaborate motifs which act as frames to the rooms and other areas of the hotel.
A small flag-like sign hangs discreetly above the main door of Palazzo Confalone. Built in the 12th Century, in a charming location on one of Ravello's little alleyways, the building protrudes onto the street with a tower-like structure forming an arch, dotted with tiny loop-holes which were used as lookouts in bygone days when safety was rare and to be defended.
Rooms and suites at Hotel Palumbo feature a mixture of arches, corridors, corners, niches and passageways - a composition of 'nests' for the imagination, which opens onto the sun of Ravello and onto the Amalfi Coast's mellow nights. To avoid the arid convention of numbering the rooms, we have preferred to use names. Vaulted rooms, thick walls - a reminiscence of past architecture - corridors and floors enhance the luminous nakedness of the typical white colour of Mediterranean interiors.
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