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A medieval village reborn as a 5-star estate between Florence and Pisa — around 140 rooms, a 27-hole golf course, the RAKxa spa, an organic winery and several restaurants.
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Need To Know
- Around 140 rooms and suites across the main 5-star hotel and the historic Tabaccaia (a converted tobacco warehouse), from classic rooms to terrace and family suites
- A 27-hole golf course (an 18-hole and a 9-hole), among Italy's finest; a 200-sqm gym and outdoor sport
- The RAKxa Wellness Spa — 1,500 sqm, indoor/outdoor pools, sauna, steam, hydrotherapy and a vitality pool
- Several restaurants and bars: Olivina, the trattoria Il Rosmarino, Bar Ecru and the Tuscan-Lebanese UMMI on the castle terrace
- An organic winery, olive mill and gardens; 40-plus experiences; an adventure park; beach-club access at Forte dei Marmi
- A medieval borgo with boutiques, a ballroom for up to 450, and private villas available alongside the hotel
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The borgo itself — an 800-year-old medieval village with its own castle, 13th-century church and Medici park, restored and brought back to life as a living estate between Florence and Pisa.
- The golf — a 27-hole course threading between olive groves, lakes and forest, with the castle and the Tuscan hills in view, rated among the finest and most dramatic in Italy.
- The RAKxa spa — 1,500 square metres and the European debut of the Bangkok wellness brand, with indoor and outdoor pools, a thermal circuit and Eastern-rooted treatments.
- The food and wine — several restaurants from the Olivina dining room to the Tuscan-Lebanese UMMI on the castle's Medici Terrace, all drawing on the estate's organic winery, oil and gardens.
- The estate — 2,700 acres of organic vineyards, 10,000 olive trees, woods and lakes, with 40-odd experiences from truffle hunting and falconry to wine tasting and an adventure park.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Località Castelfalfi, 50050 Montaione, Firenze, Italia
Travel Info
Castelfalfi sits in the hills at Montaione, between Florence and Pisa — both airports around an hour by car, with Siena, Volterra and San Gimignano within reach. A car is essential out here; the estate is large, with its own roads, and a helipad is available for arrivals.
Nearby Places
Pisa International Airport
40km
Pitti Palace
40km
Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Castelfalfi is not a hotel so much as a village. An eight-hundred-year-old borgo in the hills of Montaione, between Florence and Pisa, it grew up around a medieval castle and the thirteenth-century church of San Floriano, with Etruscan roots beneath and the Medici close at hand — the Lebanese prince Fakhr al-Din II, exiled and hosted by the Medici in the seventeenth century, knew these hills on his journeys between Pisa and Florence. By the late twentieth century the village had emptied and fallen quiet.
Its revival has been one of the largest restoration projects in Tuscany. Over years, the stone houses, the castle, the church and the Medici park were brought back, and a five-star estate built around them — reopened in 2024 after a fresh wave of renovation and a full rethink, the borgo now stands as a living resort rather than a museum piece. The main hotel sits a short walk from the castle town, with more characterful rooms in the converted Tabaccaia, the old tobacco warehouse on the main street.
What surrounds it is a working estate of some 2,700 acres: organic vineyards and a winery, ten thousand olive trees and an estate mill, woods, lakes and a celebrated golf course threading between them. The reborn village now holds the RAKxa wellness spa — the first in Europe for the Bangkok brand — a clutch of restaurants drawing on the estate's own produce, boutiques of Italian labels along the main street, and forty-odd things to do, from truffle hunting and falconry to an adventure park in the woods. It is Tuscany at estate scale, a whole medieval village handed over to the guest.
Top Secret
Walk the estate's hiking trails at dawn or dusk and you stand a fair chance of meeting the locals — the wild boar and their piglets that move through the woods around the borgo. For dinner, book the castle's Medici Terrace: it once looked out for a Lebanese prince under Medici protection, and now sets Tuscan and Lebanese cooking side by side as the sun goes down over the hills.
The Review
Castelfalfi is Tuscany at a scale few places attempt: not a country house but an entire medieval village, restored over years and reopened in 2024 as a five-star estate. You arrive through farmland, sunflower fields and olive groves to a hilltop borgo gathered around its castle, and the sense throughout is of a whole working village — vineyards, a winery, an olive mill, woods and lakes, a golf course — rather than a single hotel.
The rooms run to around 140, the more contemporary ones in the main hotel and the more characterful in the converted Tabaccaia tobacco warehouse on the main street. But the point of Castelfalfi is the estate around them. There is a 27-hole golf course rated among Italy's best, dramatic with its fairways winding between olive trees and lakes; the RAKxa spa, the Bangkok wellness brand's first in Europe, at 1,500 square metres; an organic winery where the sommelier walks you through the estate's Sangiovese over cured meats and cheese; and a spread of restaurants from the Olivina dining room to UMMI, the Tuscan-Lebanese kitchen on the castle's Medici Terrace, where the sunset views are the stuff of long, slow dinners.
It suits those who want a great deal in one place and a base from which to roam: families, golfers, groups, and anyone happy to let the days fill with wine tastings, truffle hunts, falconry, the pool and the spa. Florence, Pisa, Siena, Volterra and San Gimignano are all within reach for day trips, and the coast at Forte dei Marmi comes with beach-club access. This is not the intimate, hidden Tuscany of a ten-room villa; it is the grand, all-in-one kind, a medieval village turned private estate, with enough within its own walls to fill a week without leaving.
