If you’ve not heard of Reschio yet, you’re about to feel like you’ve been missing out. Sitting on the border of Umbria and Tuscany, about 45 minutes from Perugia, it’s a place that hardly needs to advertise itself.
The Estate covers 3,700 acres. There’s a 10th-century castle that’s been converted into a 36-room hotel, a handful of private rental villas scattered across the hills, two restaurants, a spa built into the old wine cellar, stables with purebred Spanish horses, and enough to do that you could honestly stay a week and not run out of reasons to stay another.
The whole thing was started by Count Antonio Bolza, who bought the crumbling property in 1994. His son Benedikt, a trained architect and Benedikt’s wife Nencia have since spent three decades restoring it. Every farmhouse, every room, every bathroom vanity. Nencia is a fresco painter, so they mixed their own lime plaster colours. Benedikt designed and built the furniture in a converted tobacco factory on the estate.
The hotel opened in 2021 and now holds a Michelin Three Key rating, one of only eight in Italy. It has 36 suites inside the castle, with each one different. Views either over the courtyard or out to the Umbrian hills. Stone floors, four-poster beds, Carrara marble washstands, no air conditioning units visible anywhere on the building. Benedikt designed the rooms to use the full width of the castle walls so they each get two exposures, light from both sides.
If you’re going with a group, the estate has eight private rental villas. Former farmhouses, all restored to the same standard as the hotel. Private pools, herb gardens, full concierge. Down in the old wine cellar, there’s a spa with a Roman-style saltwater pool, steam room, hammam, and treatments using ingredients foraged from the estate. It’s dark and stone-vaulted and genuinely impressive.
There are two restaurants on-site. Ristorante Al Castello is the more formal option with estate-grown produce, house-made pasta, fig tree terrace. Ristorante Alle Scuderie is more casual: pizza, cold cuts, still with the same views. There’s also a converted watchtower bar serving cocktails made with Reschio’s own house-distilled gin.
You won’t need to leave, but if you do, Cortona, Siena, Assisi and Perugia are all within an hour. On the estate you’ve got access to activities like horse riding, tennis, truffle hunting, cooking classes, cycling, clay pigeon shooting with Perugia airport only 45 minutes away.
