Relais Borgo Santo Pietro

The Gold List 2022

@cntraveller

"Last autumn—desperate for a sanctuary from living in locked-down Brooklyn with a newborn—I found an Edenic combination of escapism and reconnection here. Unlike at some resorts, visitors here don’t block out the destination once they check in. The 300-acre estate is in Chiusdino, on the more rugged side of Tuscany, and feels like a microcosm of the region itself. The ricotta at dinner comes from the sheep you’ve spied on long walks through farms and forests; the fields of lavender and marigold provide ingredients for the face oils at the spa. None of this is to say that Borgo Santo Pietro isn’t sharp. Everything is done with a very Italian elegance: the manicured gardens and landscaped pool; the staff who appear with a Spritz and silver tray of truffled chips simply because they thought you needed it (and I did); the Trattoria sull’Albero, with its thick oak tree rising in the middle. During the harvest season, guests can pluck and stomp grapes at Borgo’s tumble of vineyards. There’s a six-foot-deep swimming hole in the middle of a rushing stream. It’s on the property but open to use by the 30 or so locals from a nearby village. Closer to the guest villas is a tall canopied wall beside the vegetable gardens, along which pilgrims in the Middle Ages trekked to the nearby Abbey of San Galgano. My stay was an opportunity to explore a pocket of wild southern Tuscany, thrillingly alone and free, without ever needing to backtrack through the great wide entrance gates. Doubles from $760. —Erin Florio."

FLORENCE - TOSCANE

@petitfute

"Le restaurant étoilé Meo Modo prend place au sein d'un cadre somptueux, verdoyant et chargé d'histoire. Son chef, Andrea Mattei, concocte avec raffinement une cuisine du jardin à l'assiette. Les créations sont réellement un extrait de ce que la terre produit précieusement, on savoure des goûts prononcés, parfois même rustiques, mais toujours divins. Après un tel repas, à la fois précis et sophistiqué, il est vivement conseillé de flâner au calme dans le jardin potager de la propriété, et de ressentir l'âme du borgo Santo Pietro."

MICHELIN Hotels & Keys

@michelin_hotels_keys

"Hôtel distingué de trois Clefs MICHELIN."

50 Best Discovery Hotels

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"22 chambres. Restaurant : Borgo Santo Pietro Saporium. Bar : Sull’Albero Bar."

Camilla Ghini

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Elisabeth Inthavong

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Elena Minozzi

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Giulia Beccali

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