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Palazzo Bellavista 2025
Priced from $85,000 per person, DoubleOccupancyToken
8 Bedrooms | Sleeps 16
A&K Advantages
- Views of the rolling Tuscan hills at every turn
- Refined interiors designed by Ilaria Miani, Italy’s leading interior designer
- Tower room for sunset aperitivos
- Vast, beautiful grounds including woodland, open-air amphitheater and kitchen garden
- Tennis and clay bowls courts
- Just 20 minutes by car to Florence
The Villa
Palazzo Bellavista is owned by an Italian sports agent who fell in love with the place long ago. It’s since been renovated by his sister, Rome-based Ilaria Miani, who mixed family antiques with swathes and stripes of color that reflect the local landscape. Comfortable sofas, black-and-white engravings, freshly cut flowers and open fireplaces in the dining and living/TV rooms enhance the effortlessly elegant feel. The bedrooms are more theatrical and come with queen- or king-size beds, en suite shower rooms and air conditioning; the ground-floor double has a four-poster bed and another double is squirrelled away on a mezzanine beneath the tower. The six first-floor bedrooms include two twins, one double with a four-poster and two doubles with separate bathtubs and showers. All look onto the poetic grounds where white canvas chairs and loungers frame a 100-year-old swimming pool lined in pietra serena, mossy statues gaze over an antique amphitheater and a kitchen garden produces vegetables for cooking classes in the all-white kitchen with its marble worktops and antique cabinets.
The Location
Palazzo Bellavista is set in the countryside of northern Chianti, 10 miles from Florence with its world-beating Uffizi and Accademia art galleries, its Duomo visible from the estate. The nearest town, Chiesanuova, is two miles away; within striking distance are beautiful, fortified Lucca (55 miles), the 14 towers of San Gimignano (30 miles) and unmissable Siena, the site of the bareback Palio horse race that opened the Bond film Quantum of Solace. It’s also just off the Chiantigiana wine route and your hosts Marcella and Remus can recommend local wineries such as Antinori and Castello Sonnino, as well as walks through the wider 178-acre estate in which the villa sits, along with two acres of its own Chianti Classico vines and 1,000 olive trees.