Reschio Hotel
Hotel · Perugia ·
Restored 11th-century castle hotel with farm-to-table dining & spa
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Tabaccaia di Reschio, 06060 Lisciano Niccone PG, Italy Get directions
Restored 11th-century castle hotel with farm-to-table dining & spa
Tabaccaia di Reschio, 06060 Lisciano Niccone PG, Italy Get directions
"Known as the “Green Heart of Italy,” Umbria has long flown under the radar compared to Tuscany, and having lived here for over 16 years I’ve come to appreciate the slower pace of life; recently, though, the exclusive Castello di Reschio has increased Umbria's luxury tourism." - John Skelton
"Set on a vast estate in the picturesque hills of Umbria near the border with Tuscany, this tenth-century castle is an extreme example of Italian hoteliers’ skill with heritage buildings, and the decade-plus its owners spent on careful restoration feels like the blink of an eye by comparison." - Le Guide MICHELIN
"Under the glow of October’s supermoon, I walked down a dimly lit gravel path across a 3,750-acre Umbrian estate near the Tuscan border, where rolling hills are dotted with ancient farmhouses restored by architect Count Benedikt Bolza and his wife, artist Donna Nencia. At its heart, an 11th-century castle holds a 36-room boutique hotel filled with bespoke furniture and antiques that hark back to the days of astro-navigation and farming by lunar phases. I came for the newly launched Celestial Retreat—a 'personalized cosmic odyssey'—with stargazing alongside an astronomer, yoga, zodiac-inspired spa treatments, and adventures among oak forests and ancient olive groves, and it felt like the perfect place for a weekend of lunar-inspired self-care." - Julia Eskins
"Reschio, an estate in Umbria not far from Perugia, comprises 3,700 quite outrageously beautiful acres of rolling hills, olive groves, vineyards, forest, farm buildings and, looming darkly over it all, a curtain-walled 11th-century castle. The most radical of the many changes Castello di Reschio has undergone in its long history is the most recent: its transformation from a place designed to keep people out to one redesigned to welcome them in. After a thousand or so years as a fortress, the castle opened, in 2021, as a 36-room hotel. The success of its reinvention has to do entirely with its owner-proprietors, Count Benedikt Bolza, an architect and designer, and his wife, Donna Nencia Corsini, an artist and environmentalist. The hotel is a lucid expression in three dimensions—in wood and stone and bronze, in silk and velvet and linen, in wildflowers and works of art and kooky knickknacks—of the couple’s shared enthusiasms, their style, their outlook on life. Castello di Reschio works brilliantly as a hotel and does all the things that a top hotel must do. (Is there a chicer palm-court bar, a more astonishing spa, or a lovelier swimming pool in rural Italy? Or anywhere?) More than that, the castle hotel is just one part of the much larger Reschio story, the point of entry into what has often—predictably, though not without reason—been characterized as a modern-day fairy tale. From $1,010. —Steve King" - CNT Editors
"Castello di Reschio is a meticulously restored hotel in a 1,000-year-old castle in Europe." - The MICHELIN Guide