Discover Renzo and Lucia’s Milan

Did you know that Hotel Sanpi is located right in the historic sites of Renzo and Lucia’s Milan, exactly where Manzoni set his masterpiece I Promessi Sposi?

Staying at Hotel Sanpi Milano offers you the opportunity to retrace the places where the events of this incredible historical novel are set. A book that, even today, is a symbol of the city of Milan.

First of all, following the plot of the novel The Betrothed, the history of the Hotel Sanpi Milano and that of Renzo and Lucia meet near Porta Orientale, now Porta Venezia. Renzo arrived there, in the midst of the turmoil of San Martino in 1628, in search of Father Bonaventura and the famous Capuchin monastery.