Every evening at 7pm, the monastic bell that once summoned the monks to prayer, is rung over the terraces. This is designed to encourage hotel residents, by then quite possibly on their second cocktail, to pause for a moment and reflect on their day. Everyone is then given a small glass of Amaro, the basil liqueur made by the Capuchins and still made in the hotel kitchens, while Andrea Boccelli booms out Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah on the loudspeakers.
