Little extraordinary things
What we can quietly arrange
None of it is a package. All of it is a phone call with your host, weeks before you arrive.
Two very different weeks, both ours
The gathered week
Three generations, one table. Slower mornings, one outing a day, water and shade in the middle of it, culture in small and beautiful doses, and a nanny when the adults want an evening of their own. The point is not the mileage — it is what the family will still be quoting at Christmas.
The restless week
Adults only, and no time wasted. Helicopter days, doors opened out of hours, a private terrace lunch with a violin, motorcycles and marble quarries, dinner in a place that seats twelve. Intensity, access, and things that genuinely cannot be bought online.
Tell us which of the two you recognise — or invent the third. It is what your experiences menu is for.
Everything here is about authenticity before refinement.
At the table
- A chef, for one particular evening
- Either the dinner your grandmother would have cooked — preceded, if you like, by a short lesson so you can cook it again at home — or something modern and quietly refined. You choose the register.
- Cooking classes
- Pasta made by hand on the carpenter's bench in the kitchen. Flour on the teenagers, which is the point.
- In our cellar
- A tasting of local wines under the vaults, or a board of the cheeses and cured meats these hills have made for centuries.
- From the garden
- Homemade tarts with homemade jam, fruit and vegetables from our own orchard and kitchen garden, and oil pressed from the olives along the drive. Take a bottle home, or we ship it to you.
For those who came to do nothing, beautifully.
For the body, and the slow hours
- A massage, at home
- A therapist comes to the house; the treatment happens where you already are.
- Yoga and pilates
- A teacher on the lawn at eight, with the valley waking up in front of you.
- Coming in 2028
- A spa and a gym are being built. Until then, the pool, the hills and the long lunch do the work.
Some things only happen when the year says so.
Farm and season
- The olive harvest — late October
- Pick with us, follow the crates to the mill the very same day, and taste, still warm, the densest, greenest, purest oil you will ever have.
- Truffle hunting
- This valley has a generous bounty of black truffles — not as rare as the whites of Alba, but still excellent over your pasta or shaved on ravioli. Walk out with an expert hunter and his dog, then earn your family's applause with a truffle dinner you brought home yourself.
- The shearing — around June
- New Zealand shearing teams work the flocks with astonishing speed, and the day ends as tradition demands: spits, local produce, a village at one table.
Charming ways to cover twenty kilometres.
Out in the hills
- Horse riding
- Match your passion for riding with these rolling hills: quiet trails through olive groves, oak woods and tufa gorges, with horses and guides matched to the rider — from a first gentle hour for the children to a long half-day for those who ride at home.
- Vintage Vespas and classic cars
- Across the Tuscia backroads, or further north through the Val d'Orcia. Convoy, picnic, photographs.
- A professional photographer
- Half a day, included in the Golden and Platinum experiences: your family, this light, no phones.
- The Via Francigena
- The pilgrim road passes close by — a stage on foot or by bike, with your bags carried and lunch waiting.
Multi-generational weeks are what this house was restored for.
For the youngest, and the oldest
- Their own toys, waiting
- Tell us what each child cannot sleep without and it will be in the room when they walk in.
- English-speaking nannies and entertainers
- So the parents can disappear into a hill town for the day, or the grandparents can nap without guilt.
- Grandparents' pace
- Short walks with big views, a car that comes to collect, a chair in the shade with a book and a glass of something cold.
- One shared memory a day
- The mammoth fossil, bread baking, a treasure hunt in the olive grove, stars named from the lawn after dinner. Small things — the ones the grandchildren will still be telling in forty years.
Five bedrooms is small for a conference, and perfect for a purpose.
Themed mini-retreats
- Yoga
- Two sessions a day, simple food, no schedule in between.
- Painting and drawing
- Easels in the calanchi, and in the ghost villages nobody paints.
- Cycling
- Road and gravel loops from the door, e-bikes for the sensible, a support car for the rest.
- Walking
- The Francigena, the tufa gorges, and the Etruscan cut roads.
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