Situated in the most tranquil of settings on a rural hillside in the province of Siena in central Tuscany, the Borgo is located directly on the historic Via Francigena, the medieval pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome. It connected the monastic stopovers of Monte Oliveto and Sant Antimo and most likely hosted scores of pilgrims, merchants, and adventurers through the centuries. (Just down the hill, Buonconvento - literally “good gathering place” - owes its own existence to travelers' need for rest and exchange.) The Borgo’s piazza was both a crossroads of the world and a place where the day-to-day personal interactions fundamental to life took place over hundreds of years.
The Borgo encompasses twenty-two bedrooms arranged around its central piazza, allowing it to function as its own community. Gathering spaces include a formal dining room and outdoor dining terrace, a living room with grand piano and study, media room, library, bar, conference facility and ballroom accommodating up to 70 people, cantina and wine tasting room, a professional teaching kitchen, an interior arcaded courtyard, a piazza, and extensive lawn and garden spaces with various shaded benches and a gazebo. Recreational facilities include a 60-foot oval swimming pool, a fully equipped gym, spa, tennis and basketball court, and bocce court. Individual suites are ample, luxurious, and private, while the public spaces are intended to encourage coming together in all the forms that might take.
Borgo Finocchieto is the name given to both the medieval village, or Borgo, and to the grand manor house whose foundations date to the fourteenth century. Recent renovations have taken the ancient building to a level of great modern comfort without compromising the original integrity of its design or the spirit of its old stone walls and rustic ceiling beams.
Situated throughout the three stories of the magnificent Manor House, the nine suites are spacious, beautifully decorated, elegant, and warmly comfortable. Each suite has a large, private sitting area, a bath with tub and rain shower, a daily-stocked mini-bar, coffee maker, central and individual room air conditioning controls, and an iPod docking station with surround sound in each room.
You will discover, as others have before you, that the Borgo offers an uncommon experience among luxury properties in Tuscany. The private village, with an elegant manor house and four comfortable village houses, will delight the most discerning of guests. The Borgo is for those who demand the very best of what Tuscany has to offer and will accept no substitute. The Borgo exceeds all demands by its history and setting, the detail and quality of its spaces, privacy, and, above all, the supreme level of its service.
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