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A 12th-century castle in the Maremma hills, restored by the family who run it — ten suites, two marble pools, organic vineyards and farm-to-table dining between Rome and Florence.
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Award Winner 2017
Europe’s Best Romantic Retreat
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Homemade specialities including seasonal jams, homemade olive oil, soaps and their very own cookbook.
Need To Know
- Ten individually designed suites, plus the two-bedroom Villa La Vedetta with its own pool; sleeping up to around 30, with whole-estate buyout available
- A family home as much as a hotel — open kitchens, shared living rooms, best for unhurried, sociable country stays
- Farm-to-table dining from the estate's organic gardens; rooftop dinners at La Terrazza; the estate's own organic wines and olive oil
- Two marble swimming pools — a travertine infinity pool and a heated green-marble wellness pool — plus Villa La Vedetta's private pool
- A spa offering massages in the olive-grove gazebo, yoga and meditation; a helipad; pet-friendly
- 40-hectare organic estate at Poggi del Sasso; weddings and private events accommodated
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The castle itself — a 12th-century fortress of the Republic of Siena, bought as a ruin and restored over years by the Baccheschi Berti family, its stone and brick walls and deep-set windows intact.
- The suites — ten individually designed by the family, each filled with art and antiques gathered on their travels, plus the two-bedroom Villa La Vedetta with its own private marble pool.
- The two marble pools — a travertine infinity pool over the hills and a green-marble wellness pool, sourced from Tinos, set in the olive grove and heated for the cooler months.
- The food and wine — farm-to-table cooking from 50-odd vegetables and herbs in the garden, candlelit rooftop dinners at La Terrazza, and the estate's own award-winning organic wines.
- The Maremma setting — 40 hectares of organic vineyards and olive groves, complete silence and dark skies, midway between Rome and Florence with Siena and the coast within reach.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Via Vicarello, 1, 58044 Poggi del Sasso GR, Italy
Travel Info
The castle sits on a hill at Poggi del Sasso in the Maremma, midway between Rome and Florence. Siena is about 50 minutes by car and Montalcino 35, with Grosseto's airport around 35 minutes and Florence, Pisa and Rome airports between 1.5 and 2.5 hours.
Nearby Places
Pisa International Airport (PSA, Gallileo Gallilei Airport
180km
Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Castello di Vicarello began as a twelfth-century castle — a fortress of the Republic of Siena, set on a hill in the Maremma, the wild, less-trodden south-western corner of Tuscany. By the time the Baccheschi Berti family found it in the 1980s it was a ruin. Carlo and Aurora, then dividing their lives between Milan and Bali and working in fashion, textiles and design, relocated with their three young sons and gave the castle the years it needed: a meticulous restoration that kept the ancient stone and brick, the deep-set windows and the balance of the place intact.
They opened it as a boutique hotel in 2003, and it has stayed exactly what it also is — a family home. Carlo oversaw the masonry and the wine; Aurora shaped the interiors and the kitchen; the wines now run through their son Brando, the hotel through Corso, and the estate has gone on growing. Each suite was designed by the family and filled with the art, furniture and artefacts they gathered travelling the world, so the castle reads as a private house of unusual character rather than a hotel fitted to a template.
What surrounds it is a working estate of forty hectares — organic vineyards and centuries-old olive groves, kitchen gardens of fifty-odd vegetables and thirty herbs, beehives and chickens — feeding a farm-to-table kitchen and producing award-winning organic wines and oil. Two marble pools, a spa in the olive grove and a rooftop restaurant under the stars complete it. Midway between Rome and Florence yet deep in silence, with the Tyrrhenian on the horizon, Vicarello is the rare grand Tuscan estate that still feels like someone's home, because it is.
Top Secret
Time a wine tasting for just before sunset and walk out into the vineyard itself — the family pour their organic wines among the vines as the valley dims and the castle stands in the distance. The estate's wines have taken serious honours, including the Bibenda 5 Grappoli and a Decanter Platinum, so the glass in your hand is as considered as the view.
The Review
Castello di Vicarello is what happens when a family buys a ruined twelfth-century castle and spends a lifetime turning it into a home that happens to take guests. It sits on a hilltop in the Maremma — the wilder, emptier south of Tuscany — a former Sienese fortress restored by the Baccheschi Berti family from the 1980s and opened as a hotel in 2003, and it has the unmistakable feel of a place lived in rather than operated. Open kitchens, shared sitting rooms, family photographs and the smell of bread from the ovens set the tone; thick castle walls and deep-set windows hold the silence.
The estate does the rest. Forty hectares of organic vineyards and olive groves run up to the castle garden, supplying a farm-to-table kitchen that turns fifty kinds of vegetable and the estate's own eggs, honey and oil into refined Tuscan cooking, served at candlelit rooftop dinners at La Terrazza or in secret corners of the grounds. The family's organic wines, Bordeaux varieties alongside Sangiovese, have won real recognition. There are ten individually designed suites and a two-bedroom villa, two marble swimming pools — a travertine infinity pool over the valley and a green-marble wellness pool in the olive grove — and a spa that takes its massages out to a gazebo scented with lavender.
It suits those who want Tuscany at its most private and most genuine: a hilltop castle with no crowds, no noise and no light pollution, midway between Rome and Florence but a world away from either. Siena, Montalcino and the Maremma coast are within reach for the days you stir yourself to leave — but the estate, with its pools, its vineyards and its long unhurried dinners, tends to win. Many guests book the whole castle and let it become, for a few days, their own.
