Mine, the Sala Musica, like the other rooms in the main building, does not have a television, although it does have a full-size grand piano in one corner. Off one of the halls, whimsical Marchesa has a secret entrance and an additional single room. Follow staircases up and you’ll find billiard tables and libraries.Īmong the bedrooms and suites, Il Poeta may look small but has a two-storey bathroom with an armchair at the top. Courtyards and French doors lead to the gardens.
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The ground floor of the castello opens into a series of restaurants plus sitting rooms with squashy sofas and chess sets. Guests can enjoy views on to the vast, wooded Castelvecchio Nature Reserve Look out from the top of the hillside and, on a good day, the Mediterranean can be seen in the distance. Given the sense of abundance, the prices for rooms are not bad at all, starting at €300 a night (about £250), including breakfast. The vistas are huge and so is the vision – this is more than agricultural tourism (so-called agrotourism), it’s about regenerating a whole area. Today, with artfully hidden solar panels and rainwater catchments, this is an estate that feels both utterly modern and still remarkably Renaissance-like.
It took more than ten years before it was ready for the first guests. He has since turned to philanthropy, and he and his wife, the novelist and sculptor Harriet Heyman, bought Borgo Pignano in 2000 when it was a mass of decaying buildings surrounded by exhausted farmland.
Above is the estate's 'show-stopper' swimming pool, which has been made out of a former quarryīillionaire Michael Moritz was an early investor in companies such as Google and Yahoo. Sarah Turner visits Borgo Pignano, a luxury countryside retreat in Tuscany 'that feels both utterly modern and still remarkably Renaissance-like'.
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