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A medieval pilgrims' estate near Siena, restored by its Danish owners — around twenty frescoed rooms, a 300-acre organic farm, a starred restaurant and estate-grown skincare.
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Need To Know
- Around twenty individually designed rooms and suites — hand-frescoed and antique-furnished — from villa rooms to garden suites and secluded pool houses, some with private pools and outdoor fireplaces
- A working farm and estate where the rhythm follows nature, not the clock; best for unhurried country stays, honeymoons and weddings
- Two restaurants: the Michelin-starred Saporium and the treehouse Trattoria Sull'Albero, both fed by the estate
- A 300-acre organic farm — dairy, vineyards, kitchen gardens, bees, chickens and alpacas
- A holistic spa with the estate's own Seed to Skin skincare; thirteen acres of formal gardens
- Airport collection arranged; Siena about 35 minutes, Florence just over an hour
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The 300-acre organic estate — dairy sheep milked each morning for breakfast cheese, kitchen gardens, beehives, alpacas and vineyards, supplying almost everything that reaches the table.
- The food — a starred dinner at Saporium under chef Ariel Hagen, and the treehouse Trattoria Sull'Albero built around a great oak, with handmade pasta you return to nightly.
- The rooms — around twenty individually conceived, hand-frescoed and furnished with antiques, some opening to private pools, others to terraced gardens and outdoor fireplaces.
- The spa — holistic treatments drawing on the estate's own herbs, paired with Seed to Skin, the skincare line grown and made in the on-site laboratory and found nowhere else.
- The gardens — thirteen acres of formal gardens, 300,000 plants set by hand, healing and medicinal beds, sculpture among the olives, with Siena and San Galgano close by.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Borgo Santo Pietro, Loc. Palazzetto, 53012 Chiusdino (SI)
Travel Info
The estate sits in the Val di Merse near Chiusdino, by the abbey of San Galgano, with airport collection arranged. Siena is about 35 minutes by car, Florence just over an hour, and San Gimignano and the Chianti country within easy reach; a car is useful, though the estate gives little reason to leave.
Nearby Places
Borgo Santo Pietro offer an airport collection service. The hotel is 35 minutes from Siena and just over an hour away from Florence.
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Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Some places carry their history in the grain of their stone. Borgo Santo Pietro sits in the Val di Merse, in the heart of Tuscany near the ancient Via Francigena, the pilgrim road that once carried crusaders, saints and wanderers from Canterbury to Rome. This medieval estate has been offering sanctuary for some eight hundred years — it began as a lazzaretto, a place of rest and recuperation for pilgrims making their way to the nearby Cistercian abbey of San Galgano.
That spirit of healing never quite left. When the Danish couple Jeanette and Claus Thottrup first saw the crumbling thirteenth-century estate in 2001, they bought it within ten minutes. What was meant to be a private family home became a seven-year labour of devotion: more than 300,000 plants set by hand across thirteen acres of formal gardens, local artisans restoring the ruin stone by stone, antiques and architectural details gathered across Europe to give each room its own character.
Borgo Santo Pietro opened in 2008 and has grown steadily since. Today the 300-acre organically cultivated estate holds a starred restaurant, a holistic spa, an artisan cheese dairy, working vineyards and the Seed to Skin skincare laboratory — all drawn from the founding idea that has defined the place for centuries: that land, tended with intention, has the power to restore. The modern pilgrim who arrives finds, as those before did, that Borgo Santo Pietro has a way of making everything else feel like it can wait.
Top Secret
The estate sits on the ancient Via Francigena and has been a place of healing for eight hundred years — the spa is less a hotel amenity than a continuation of that history, drawing on the estate's own herbs. Ask the sommelier about the estate's own wine labels, made from the property's vines and poured only for guests and at the restaurants.
The Review
There are luxury hotels in Tuscany that feed you well, and then there is Borgo Santo Pietro, which feeds you in a way that quietly reorders what you thought food could be. The estate's 300 acres yield almost everything that reaches the table — the sheep's milk worked each morning into cheese and yogurt at the dairy, the vegetables lifted from the kitchen gardens, the honey from the estate's bees — and executive chef Ariel Hagen treats that larder with the reverence it deserves. Dinner at Saporium is Michelin-starred and feels it, though never in the way that makes you enjoy yourself less. The treehouse restaurant, Trattoria Sull'Albero, built around the boughs of a great oak, is the kind of place you return to each evening for the same handmade pasta without a flicker of guilt.
The rooms — around twenty, each individually conceived, hand-frescoed, furnished with antiques gathered on the owners' travels — have the quality of feeling designed for you rather than for the category of person who books rooms like this. Some open onto private pools, others onto terraced gardens or courtyards where outdoor fireplaces glow on cool evenings. The public rooms carry the kind of well-worn luxury that takes either generations or serious intention to achieve: leather armchairs by open fires, flowers from the cutting garden, a brick cellar of boutique labels that repay exploration.
Something of the estate's old restorative calling persists. The spa draws on the same herbal knowledge and the healing properties of the estate's own plants that gave rise to Seed to Skin, the skincare range developed in the on-site laboratory and found nowhere else. Guests arrive meaning to explore Siena, San Gimignano and the Chianti country, and many do — but the gravitational pull of the place, the afternoon light across the vineyards, another cold glass on the terrace, the absence of any reason to be anywhere else, has rearranged many a careful itinerary.
