Need to know
Rooms
36, including 25 suites
Check–Out
11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates include a bountiful breakfast buffet.
Also
Given the hotel's centuries-old foundations and hillside perch, those who are less mobile may need a little assistance up and down inclines. There are plenty of accessible public areas, though, and numerous specially-adapted rooms with either ground-floor or elevator access.
Please note
The hotel’s national identification code (CIN) is IT054025A101030731
Hotel closed
For the winter (from mid-November to mid-March).
At the hotel
On the vast estate you'll find olive groves, vineyards, lakes, an equestrian centre, a boutique stocked with Italian wares, an enoteca and two restaurants. In rooms: air conditioning, custom furniture, free minibar, Ortigia bath products, free WiFi.
Our favourite rooms
Talk about flour power, one ground floor room still sports centuries-old milling equipment at its centre (ask about it when booking). Then there's the castle's tower: a whole five-floor suite in itself with peerless panoramas, an open-air tub on top and, handily, a dumb waiter for hoisting up your sundowners. The beamed ceiling, bespoke furniture and generous dimensions of the Castello suite make for a pretty special stay, too.
Poolside
There's a large heated oval pool shielded by pine trees just beyond the castle's eastern wall (it's supervised throughout the day so ideal if you're swimming con la familigia). Il Torrino is the pool bar on hand to keep you fed and watered and there are plenty of shady spots to spend a somnambulant afternoon between dips.
Spa
The cellars here were once meant for wine; now they're for unwinding. Tread the ancient stone steps down and you'll emerge into a warren of soothing spaces, including two treatment rooms, a sauna and a hammam. Among the caves is also a plunge pool of almost celestial calm lit, as it is, by beams of light from windows high above.
Packing tips
No need for bows and arrows here anymore, instead pack a pair of binoculars so you can make the most of your vantage point and look for wild boar, kingfishers, porcupines, partridges and other local residents.
Also
That covetable furniture you'll find yourself fondly stroking during your stay all comes courtesy of the on-site design studio helmed by architect-owner, Count Benedikt, hailed as one of the 100 best working today by Architectural Digest, no less.
Pet‐friendly
Unfortunately, you'll have to leave your pooches at home for this one. See more pet-friendly hotels in Umbria.
Children
Bambini of all ages are warmly welcomed. There is an outdoor play area, cooking classes to try, ponies and horses to ride and grounds galore to roam. With two day's notice babysitting can be arranged for €25 an hour.
Sustainability efforts
These lands laid in ruin before the current owners arrived. Through replanting and smart landscaping, though, they've seen native plants and flowers flourish and the likes of nightingales and butterflies return in their droves. Bees, too, have settled into the group of hives added in 2016 to help with pollination (and to make some pretty great honey). Food, as you'd expect in these parts, is exclusively organic, either grown on site or sourced from local suppliers.