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A twelve-room hotel in a former convent on Pienza's main Corso, with a chef's-bar restaurant and a walled garden — village life in the Val d'Orcia, not another hillside villa.
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Need To Know
- 12 rooms and suites, including four suites, each individually shaped by the convent's old walls — exposed beams, stone and vaulted brick, floating four-poster beds and free-standing tubs
- Couples and culture travellers best suited; the draw is the town and the table, not resort facilities
- Townhouse Caffè on site — open kitchen, chef's bar, farm-to-table Tuscan cooking; breakfast included
- A medieval walled garden for meals and drinks; no pool here — the sister country house, La Bandita, a few miles out, has one
- Right on Corso Il Rossellino in the pedestrian heart of Pienza; parking is outside the walls
- Personally run, with the owners often on hand and staff who treat guests as friends
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The address — right on Corso Il Rossellino, the spine of Pienza's Renaissance "ideal city", steps from Palazzo Piccolomini and the Duomo, the Val d'Orcia falling away beyond the walls.
- The convent bones — five centuries of stone walls, wood-beamed ceilings and vaulted brick, restored without adding a square metre or touching the exterior, each of the twelve rooms its own shape.
- Townhouse Caffè — an open kitchen and chef's bar doing farm-to-table Tuscan with Pienza pecorino and hand-rolled pasta, deliberately not the usual pici-al-ragù tourist plate.
- The medieval walled garden — the best seat in the house for lunch or an evening glass, hidden behind the convent walls off the busy Corso.
- The owner's eye — John Voigtmann left the New York music business for Pienza, built the country house La Bandita first, then this one to put the same feeling in the centre of town.
Key Features
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Location
Address
111 Corso Rossellino, Pienza
Travel Info
Pienza sits in the Val d'Orcia in southern Tuscany: Siena is about an hour by car, Florence around ninety minutes, and Rome or the nearer airports roughly two to three hours. The old town is pedestrian, so park outside the walls.
Nearby Places
Sant Egidio Airport
56200m
Teatro Comunale Morlacchi
57700m
Perugia City Hall
57700m
Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Pienza is a Renaissance idea built in stone. In the 1460s Pope Pius II had his birthplace remade as the perfect humanist town — a cathedral, a papal palace and a single elegant Corso laid out as a model city — and the result, barely changed since, is now UNESCO-listed in full. La Bandita Townhouse occupies a convent on that Corso, a building that housed nuns for five hundred years before it housed guests.
Its second life is the work of John Voigtmann, an American who spent years in the New York music industry before trading it for Tuscany. He opened the country house called La Bandita first, in the hills outside town, and built the Townhouse afterwards to do something the rural villa could not: put a traveller in the middle of village life, on the main street of one of Italy's loveliest small towns. The restoration was careful to the point of restraint — original beams, stone walls and vaulted brickwork uncovered beneath generations of plaster, no change to the exterior, not a square metre of new space added — so that the twelve rooms each take their shape from the convent rather than a floor plan.
What fills the old shell is contemporary and easy: muted creams and browns, floating four-poster beds, free-standing tubs, an open-kitchen restaurant where the chefs work in full view. The Townhouse Caffè is half the point of staying — farm-to-table Tuscan cooking built on Pienza's own pecorino and hand-rolled pasta, served at a chef's bar or in a medieval walled garden, deliberately a step away from the pici-al-ragù served on every other terrace in town. The effect is a hotel that feels less like a hotel than like being lent a beautifully fixed-up house on the best street in Pienza.
Top Secret
The walled garden behind the convent is the seat to ask for — hidden off the Corso, it is where the Caffè is at its best for a long lunch or an evening glass, and most passers-by never know it is there. And since there is no pool in town, arrange a day out at the sister country house, La Bandita, a few miles into the hills, where there is.
The Review
La Bandita Townhouse answers a question most Tuscan hotels duck: what if you want the village rather than the villa? Almost every grand stay in this part of Tuscany is a farmhouse or estate marooned in the hills, beautiful but isolating. La Bandita puts you instead on Corso Il Rossellino, the central street of Pienza, inside a converted convent a few doors from the Duomo — so the town is not a day trip but the thing outside your door.
The building does the heavy lifting. Five hundred years a convent, it was restored with real discipline — beams, stone and brick left exposed, the shell untouched, the twelve rooms fitted into the old cells and halls so that no two are quite alike — and then furnished with a light contemporary hand, vast bathtubs and floating beds against the medieval walls. The owners, who came to hospitality from the New York music world, run it personally, and the warmth shows: guests are treated less as customers than as friends staying in the house.
The restaurant is the other half. Townhouse Caffè, with its open kitchen and chef's bar, is among the best tables in Pienza, doing a confident, seasonal, lightly un-traditional Tuscan menu that locals rate as highly as visitors do; the walled garden is the place to eat it. There is no pool — that is at the sister country house outside town — and no spa, because this is a town hotel, not a resort. The point is Pienza itself: the Val d'Orcia views from the ramparts, the pecorino shops, the passeggiata at dusk, and a beautiful old convent to come home to a few steps off the square.
