Hotel Castello di Reschio invites guests to sleep behind the stone walls of a 10th-century castle, fringed by trees and set in the rolling hills of Umbria.
It’s taken years to transform the nearly millennium-old building, which is located on the 1,500-hectare Reschio estate. Prior to its transformation, the children of the Bolza family, which owns the land, spent their days racing around the castle ruins and braving collapsing ceilings.
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The Castello’s no-longer-crumbling walls now house 30 suites as well as a bar, library – ‘stalked’ by a taxidermied castle cat – and restaurant located in its former kitchen.
Much of the original atmosphere of the building has been retained, with vast stone fireplaces, soaring ceilings, and a historic coat of arms all still in place. One of the castle’s former courtyards is now the glass-encased Palm Court, where guests can sip a signature negroni beneath the leaves of tropical plants.
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As well as an outdoor pool, set into the hotel lawn, the castle’s ancient wine cellars are now a Roman bath-inspired spa, which offers massages and facials as well as an atmospheric saltwater pool. Rooms at the Umbrian hotel start at €980 per night.
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