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The castle and its hill
The castello sits on a low ridge between Umbria and Tuscany — one of those Italian houses you arrive at by accident the first time. The road climbs through hunters' wood and olive grove, and the keep arrives quietly above.
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Castello di Reschio
A thousand-year-old castle in the Umbrian hills, restored over three decades by the Bolza family — thirty-six suites in the keep, two restaurants, a vaulted bathhouse, and a…
The verdict
A thousand-year-old castle held by a single family for thirty years, restored slowly and entirely by hand — every chair, lamp and table designed in a workshop on the estate. Few addresses in Italy hold so much under one hand.
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The particulars
- Style
- Eleventh-century castle, restored by the family that owns it
- Estate
- Roughly thirty-seven hundred acres, between Umbria and Tuscany
- Rooms
- Thirty-six suites in the keep, plus restored farmhouse villas across the estate
- Tables
- Il Castello in the keep, Alle Scuderie in the old stables
- Bar
- The Palm Court, in the castle's former chapel
- Bath
- Vaulted bathhouse below, by appointment
- Stables
- Fifty horses, riding by the day or the week
- Design
- Furniture and lighting drawn and made on the estate, by B.B. for Reschio
- Best for
- A long week, the slowest one of the year
The road into Reschio climbs from the valley between Umbria and Tuscany, through hunters' forest and olive grove, onto a low ridge where the castello has watched the same view for a thousand years. The Bolza family bought it in 1994; Count Benedikt, the architect son, has restored it slowly since — first the farmhouses across the estate, then the keep itself, opened as a hotel in 2021.
The estate is the part most properties don't have. Roughly thirty-seven hundred acres of working land — woods, vineyards, olive groves, fifty restored stone farmhouses across the hills — and a workshop on site that designs and makes the furniture for all of them. Every chair, lamp and table in the castle was drawn here and made here, often from estate timber.
Two restaurants: Il Castello in the keep, Alle Scuderie in the converted stables. The kitchens read from the same farm. The bathhouse is below, candle-lit and vaulted, and the bar is where the chapel used to be.
Thirty-six suites, fifty horses, and a long week is the right unit of time. The estate writes the days for you — gardens before lunch, woods before dinner, and the long Italian afternoon that begins somewhere between.
Signature moments
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Il Castello, the table
The kitchen reads from the estate's own farms — wheat, oil, vegetables, game — and the pasta is rolled most mornings in the courtyard. Two tables — Il Castello in the keep, Alle Scuderie down the hill in the converted stables — both pour the estate's own wine.
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The bathhouse below
A vaulted bath under the castle, candle-lit, kept warm and quiet. Time moves at a different speed here — most guests find an hour they didn't plan for.
Inside the house
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