Description
Situated in a very residential area only 1 Km far as in distance from Sorrento’s city center. Hotel La Residenza is a modern 4 star rating structure, built in 1970, and recently renovated. It is located in the huge park set in the Hotel Parco dei Principi’s property. Guests who choose La Residenza, as a resort, know that their holidays will be spent in full pampered atmosphere.
La Residenza is composed of n° 81 rooms all equipped with en suite bath/shower , hair – dryer, air conditioning, direct dial phone, Satellite Tv; it offers to its guests a chance to enjoy a spacious breakfast room with a nice al fresco terrace. Its  American bar lounge is the ideal place where sipping a drinks or spending an evening tasting the Sorrento’s mood. It has a private swimming pool and a solarium , a bowling ball ground and a private parking facility.

To access to Hotel Parco dei Principi’ s private beach is required to pay on site an extra supplement ( entrance, deck chair and sun umbrella included). Enjoy the benefits of the aesthetical treatments of our Beauty Center, discovering the pleasure of an energizing massage, a facial treatment or simply a manicure. Hotel La Residenza offers a new business center, with meeting rooms able to host from 10 up to 350 delegates. It is equipped with the newest  business facilities ,as a venue it guarantees the perfect place to hold Meeting, Conference and show room.

The majestic gardens are a superb example of how botanical gardens were laid out under the reign of the Bourbon royal family, with evocative scenes of classical architecture amid the rare specimens of beautiful trees.
The Temple of Venus or indeed the remains of the castle bear witness to the desire first of the Bourbons and later of the Cortchacovs to keep the memories of this delightful place alive.
Enjoy a relaxing drink as you take in the changing hues of the gardens: the long, uninterrupted glazing seems to provide exactly the right filter for blending the evocative emotion of the natural world with the pleasing notes from the piano bar. There are numerous rare examples of Washingtonia filifera, Washingtonia robusta and Livistonia, Jubaea spectabilis, Yucca elefantibes and Yucca messicana and, above all, Gingko biloba, a species now on the verge of extinction.
And hundreds of shrubs... and flowers in an incredible phantasmagoria of shapes and colours making an ideal blend of the opulence of nature and the  handicraft of man.

History
The original Villa Poggio Siracusa and its gardens were built in 1792 by Paolo Leopoldo of Bourbon, Count of Siracusa. Purchased thereafter by Prince Constantine Cortchacow, cousin of Zsar Nikolas II, and by his consort Maria Sturdza (whose initials can still be seen on the main gate leading into the garden), the villa enjoyed a period of great cultural splendour, thanks to the constant presence of contemporary aristocracy.

The society events promoted by the Cortchacow family included a performance by the great Giulia Sedowa, prima ballerina at the Court of Saint Petersburg, whose tiny footprints were immortalised on the marble floor of the terrace, where they are still visible today.
The appreciable artworks still kept in the villa include the precious floor of the princess's bedchamber, made by the eminent painter Filippo Palizzi.