Tuscany, Italy

Hotel Certosa Di Maggiano

Price per night from$194.28

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR167.35), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

A brush with Tuscan cool

Setting

Siena’s bucolic fringes

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A monastery in the 14th century, then home to artist Anna Ricordati, Hotel Certosa di Maggiano is a master of reinvention. But its latest iteration is set to stick: a creative at heart, the wine-growing countryside is the hotel’s bucolic canvas, onto which it has projected opulent rooms and charming antique features. Its archway-framed pool, pretty-as-a-picture regional meals and more-is-more suites can’t help to inspire. This retreat truly has Tuscan holidays down to a fine art.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

22, including 10 suites.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Hotel Certosa di Maggiano include a buffet breakfast with à la carte options.

Also

Two rooms are accessible, each with an adapted bathroom with a roll-in shower. There are ramps throughout the hotel and you’ll find an accessible bathroom in the communal areas.

Please note

The hotel’s national identification code (CIN) is IT052032A1PT4HHKIW

At the hotel

Tennis court, garden games, mediaeval chapel, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water and organic bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Hotel Certosa di Maggiano’s 14th-century cloisters were once filled with quiet contemplation and monastic silence. Today, an aura of calm still prevails in this restored space, but the aesthetics are quite a bit louder: mismatched prints, patterned wallpaper, tactile headboards and bold tiling. The Deluxe Rooms are individually styled, but we’re eyeing the one with rattan furnishings, a botanical mural and glass chandelier.

Poolside

There’s no need to take off your rose-tinted glasses at the pool: its terrace is pastel pink and topped with flower-bedecked, salmon-hued archways. Curtain-draped cloisters frame rows of sunloungers and made-for-two day-beds upholstered in maximalist stripes and Missoni-esque prints. And the pristine lawn, potted plants and olive trees add a verdant contrast.

Packing tips

Brush up on your Sixties Italian cult classics: Monica Vitti, Alberto Sordi and Franco Zefferelli all socialised within these halls when artist Anna Maria Ricordati lived here.

Also

Your wellness wish is the hotel’s command: tennis, pilates, t’ai chi and yoga classes can all be arranged on request.

Pet‐friendly

Pooches are welcome to stay in any room for €20 each a night. The hotel can provide beds, bowls and toys on request. See more pet-friendly hotels in Tuscany.

Children

Welcome. Baby cots, other child-friendly kit and babysitting can be provided on request, as can children’s dishes at the restaurant. The Suite has a double sofa-bed, which sleeps two under-13s for €30 each a night; a third and fourth adult stay for more.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

In the low-lit cloisters at La Certosa Restaurant or overlooking the lawn at La Limonaia.

Dress Code

You can leave tunics and scapulars to the monks, but take inspiration from their flowing fabrics and pump-like shoes (we’re opting for a pair from Vibi Venezia).

Hotel restaurant

There’s a dining spot for every occasion, so during your stay you’ll rotate through a variety of spaces to match each meal. Days begin under the wisteria-scented pergola or in the monastery’s old kitchen for breakfast: a buffet feast of local produce with a side of made-to-order omelettes or avocado toast. Save room for lunch at La Limonaia, a lawn-gazing, terrace-set restaurant where casual bites, cooking classes and aperitivi look out over olive trees and rolling hills.

Conclude your culinary journey with dinner at La Certosa Restaurant, under its vaulted ceilings or in its peaceful cloisters. Try decadent, contemporary takes on Italian classics — showcases of seasonal produce and regional flavours: beef tartare with burrata foam, pecorino-topped pasta, seared turbot with fennel and orange. Strawberry tiramisù and pistachio bavarese deliver that sweet finish.

Hotel bar

Nightcaps are really best after dark at Magnolia Bar, where tables are laid out around a star-canopied fire pit and under a centuries-old magnolia tree hung with glowing lanterns. Come aperitivo hour, nod to your alfresco locale with an aptly named ‘Sunset Under the Magnolia Tree’ (limoncello, vodka, elderflower, ginger), which might lead to a sweet-and-salty, mezcal-laced ‘Do You Dare?’ (or two).

Last orders

Breakfast is 7.30am to 10am. La Limonaia serves lunch between 12.30pm and 3pm; dine at La Certosa Restaurant from 7.30pm to 9pm. Magnolia Bar pours from noon to midnight.

Room service

You can order dishes from the restaurant’s menu during kitchen hours for an extra charge.

Location

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Address
Hotel Certosa Di Maggiano
Strada di Certosa 82/86
Siena
53100
Italy

Poised on the verdant fringes of terracotta-clad Siena, Hotel Certosa di Maggiano looks out over the city and to the Tuscan countryside.

Planes

Florence’s Amerigo Vespucci Airport is just over an hour’s drive from the hotel; staff can arrange one-way transfers from €290. You could also touch down in Pisa or Bologna, which are each around two hours away by car.

Trains

Rail routes from Florence, Pisa and Rome stop at Siena’s train station, which is a 10-minute drive from the hotel.

Automobiles

Take in the Tuscan countryside at your chosen pace with your own set of wheels — there’s free parking at the hotel with valet service available on request.

Other

If you’d rather chopper in, there’s a helipad on the estate.

Worth getting out of bed for

When you’re not busy filling your camera roll and Pinterest board with snaps of Hotel Certosa di Maggiano’s colourful corners, you’ll find a host of Tuscan temptations to keep you entertained (and wined and dined). The tennis court with a swish tomato-red border is as good for leisurely games as it is for photoshoots to show off your whites; go pro with a coach-led lesson. Staff can also arrange alfresco yoga, pilates and t’ai chi on request.

Whizz through the vineyard-laced countryside on a bike or horseback, or zip around in a vintage car for the full dolce vita experience. The restaurant’s chef leads regionally inspired cooking classes, or you could settle in at a nearby Chianti-growing winery.

Local restaurants

Old-world Osteria Le Logge’s walls are lined with books and antiques, and its tables are topped with rustic Tuscan plates, fight-for-the-last-bite dolci and bottles of Montepulciano. Regional Italian cooking gets a contemporary makeover at Salefino Vino & Cucina, a restaurant with service as warm as its candlelit corners and fresh pasta dishes. And Quarto Bistrot makes for a colourful dining experience, with its pastel-hued furnishings and servings of basil-green spaghetti and paprika-sprinkled antipasti.

Local cafés

At Torrefazione Fiorella, pick-me-ups come in the form of Siennese cakes, sugar-dusted pastries and frothy cappuccini.

Local bars

Bottiglieria Salefino is a wine bar that delivers on good looks and fine wines, where aperitivo hour and cocktail-shaped nightcaps are held under vaulted stone ceilings.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this classic-and-cool hotel in Tuscany and unpacked their film rolls and watercolour doodles, a full account of their creativity-sparking break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel Certosa di Maggiano in Siena…

Tuscan retreat Hotel Certosa di Maggiano is graced with vaulted ceilings, fine frescoes and cooling cloisters thanks to its 14th-century pedigree, remnants of which have been lovingly restored throughout. Its monastic heritage informs its spirit, but the hotel’s creative soul is inherited from its past life as the home of Anna Ricordati, an artist who welcomed cinematic stars such as Monica Vitti and Alberto Sordi to her gatherings in the Seventies.

Though Certosa is set in a pastoral patch of Tuscany, on the fringes of storied Siena, it has a ‘lights, camera, action’ feel. The first comes from the lantern-strewn and fire pit-warmed Magnolia Bar; the second from the hotel’s photogenic corners (a rose-pink pool terrace, lunches in a lemon grove, maximalist bathrooms); and the third you’ll find at lively cooking classes, local wine tastings or Siena’s annual Palio, a thrilling equestrian parade that has more than a hint of drama.

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