Borgo Santo Pietro
Style Classic-luxe Tuscan villa
Setting Enchanting formal gardens
This boutique hotel in Tuscany captures all that is good and great about the Italian way of life: refined furnishings in a restored 13th-century period property; gorgeous grounds punctuated by cypress trees and stone fountains; fabulous food and wine; warm family welcome; and a pleasing menu of gentle outdoor activities and sensual spa diversions. Borgo Santo Pietro is perfect for bone idle aristocrats and bohemian urban escapees.
Need to know
- Rooms 11, including eight suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from $427.07 (€340), excluding tax at 10 per cent.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€340), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates include a bottle of prosecco, Continental breakfast, fruit, flowers, and freshly squeezed juice all day. You can also rent the villa in its entirety, fully staffed, for €69,000 a week (excludes food, drinks and tax).
- Facilities Spa; free WiFi throughout; 13 acres of grounds; hot tub; tennis, badminton and basketball courts; bocce pitch; small playground; bikes to borrow. In rooms: plasma TV, DVD player, preloaded iPod and dock; most rooms have fireplaces.
- Poolside The organic lines of the free-form freshwater infinity pool help it blend in with the graceful contours of the landscaped grounds. Wicker and wood sunloungers, canvas parasols and a pool bar demand sun-soaked lazing.
- Check-out Midday, but flexible, depending on room availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Children Warmly welcomed; extra beds (€90) and cots (free) can be supplied to suites. Nannies and babysitters (€20 an hour) can be arranged with advance notice, and little ones even have a secluded playground to romp around in. More...
- Eco-friendly The restaurant menu features fresh produce grown in Borgo Santo Pietro's own organic fruit orchards and vegetable garden; most other ingredients are locally sourced. The hotel recycles as much as possible.
- Hotel closed 1 November 2012 until late March 2013.
- Also Small pets can check in with you, for €30 a night.
Food and drink at Borgo Santo Pietro
- Hotel restaurant Breakfast is served in the open-plan kitchen, with a cosy crackling fire in winter. Later, the chef whips up an Italianate storm of Mediterranean seafood and handmade pasta in the elegant dining room. Try the superb seven-course tasting menu (€105).
- Dress code Loose linens (nipped-in waists + Italian cuisine = lengthy spell on the fainting couch).
- Top table For lunch, we recommend a table overlooking the Lemon Tree garden for the best views of the Serena valley, and for dinner, a candlelit table in the romantic Rose Garden.
- Last orders Lunch is served 1pm–3.30pm; dinner, 7.30pm–10.30pm. Drinks are served until the last guest retires.
- Room service Breakfast can be brought to your bedside from 8am–11am; a lighter snacking menu of antipasti, salads and sandwiches is available from noon until midnight. Items can be ordered from the restaurant menu (they'll cost 25 per cent more, though).
- Hotel bar Take drinks at the poolside bar, or anywhere in the hotel grounds: you'll be given a mobile so you can summon something to sip wherever you are. Try a signature Borgo cocktail of champagne and white rum over fruit-flavoured granita.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Borgo Santo Pietro Loc. Palazzetto, 53012 Chiusdino (SI), Tuscany, 53012
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In the know
Our favourite rooms
Dedicated Danish owner Jeanette has kept the essence of the original building intact without scrimping on modern luxuries. Flat-screen TVs are discreetly hidden behind paintings and touch-sensitive controls keep the lighting just so. Rooms feature hand-picked antiques, open fireplaces, bespoke hand-carved beds and exquisite views. In the Valle Serena Suite you can look out across the valley from a fireside roll-top bath; the suite also has twin marble sinks and a huge, Rococo-style bed. Honeymooners will love the lavish Santo Pietro Suite – French doors open out onto a vast private balcony from the living room, and there's a Roman steam bath and shower as well as a roll-top soaking tub in the ensuite bathroom. We also love the feminine bathroom of the Via del Pellegrino junior suite, with its white and silver claw-foot bath and glass chandelier.
Packing tips
Broad-brimmed sunhats and sleek swimwear for lounging by the pool. Digital cameras for capturing your expeditions. Leave your iPod and walking boots at home: both are available to borrow.
Also
Set in what was once a bakery, the now-sumptuous spa offers an excellent selection of top-to-toe pampering treatments. Kick off with a Vital Legs treatment to combat post-flight puffiness, then move on to a massage ritual or anti-ageing facial.
From the Guestbook…
Well, what can you say about the Borgo other than it is pure luxury. We spent 11 days here at the end of our Italian honeymoon and ate and drank and relaxed in the most beautiful s...
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