Cinigiano, Maremma, Tuscany
A twelfth-century Sienese fortress in the wild Maremma that Carlo and Aurora Baccheschi Berti bought as a ruin in 1979 and spent more than a decade restoring as their family home — Balinese pieces from their years abroad set against Tuscan antiques — before opening it as a boutique hotel in 2003. It still reads as a lived-in aristocratic-bohemian house that happens to be a thousand years old, handed to one group at a time: ten suites and a two-bedroom villa sleeping about thirty, with partner venues nearby absorbing another hundred-plus guests. The estate makes award-winning organic wine and olive oil, the kitchen gardens feed the table, and three marble pools terrace the hillside. Vicarello is also unusually straight about money: weddings over twenty guests take a full-estate buyout, three-night minimum, from €140,000 — published on their own site, which almost nobody at this tier does.
