Grand Hotel Majestic già Baglioni

Grand Hotel Majestic has no golf course and offers no golf services. In the hills west of the city, at Monte San Pietro (Chiesa Nuova), stands Golf Club Bologna, about 20 minutes from the centre.

The club presents itself as the first golf course and first golf club in Emilia-Romagna: it dates from 1959 and was founded by 28 members. The course has 18 holes over 5,846 metres, with marked elevation changes, two-tiered greens, bunkers, water channels and out-of-bounds. The 5th, a par 4 with a pronounced dog-leg, and the 15th, a par 4 climbing uphill with a left-to-right sloping fairway beside woods, are the two hardest holes by handicap. The club house has a restaurant overlooking the practice range, a swimming pool and 25 rental golf carts.

The club is independent of the hotel.

The hotel is at Via dell'Indipendenza 8, in an 18th-century palazzo, and has operated since 1912. It is five-star luxury and has belonged to The Leading Hotels of the World since 1990.

The 106 rooms and suites are furnished in Venetian and French styles with marble bathrooms; some have 18th-century frescoes and artworks. Categories run from Classic and Superior to Deluxe, Grand Deluxe, Junior Suite and Presidential, up to the Royal Suite Giuseppe Verdi, with two bedrooms, and the Art Deco Terrace Suite on the fifth floor, with a private lift. The Terrazze Majestic on the noble floor are jasmine-scented and the Torre Terrace looks onto Palazzo Fava.

The I Carracci restaurant occupies a salon about 500 years old, with a Renaissance ceiling frescoed by the Carracci school, which the hotel calls "one of the highest expressions of 16th-century painting". Emilian specialities are served.

The Enoteca Morandi, the old cellar named after Giorgio Morandi, hosts tastings and private dinners. Café Marinetti, in Art Deco style with a Carrara marble floor, serves drinks and canapés with piano music. Breakfast is a buffet in the room that opens onto the early-1900s Winter Garden, with trompe-l'œil paintings and an opening roof.

The spa has a Turkish bath, sauna, emotional shower with chromotherapy, a relaxation room and a fitness area. For children the hotel offers dedicated menus and visits to child-friendly museums. Small and medium-sized pets are accepted for a €50 supplement per stay. The hotel also runs Manimpasta cooking classes, wine tastings and guided city tours.

• A Futurist café. Café Marinetti recalls the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose movement crossed paths with the hotel's history.
• A winter garden. An early-1900s room has trompe-l'œil paintings and a solarium with an opening roof.
• A lift for one suite. The Art Deco Terrace Suite, on the fifth floor, has a private lift.
• A hotel like a diary. The hotel describes itself as a diary keeping fragments of life, "from Hollywood stars to passing travellers".