November to March
Inverno
- Fires lit in every suite
- Truffle and new-oil menus
- The spa warm every day
Val d’Orcia · Toscana
A house abovethe mist.
A seventeenth-century casale for up to twelve guests, alone on its hill outside Pienza. Let whole, by the week or the season.
01The house
Built in 1680 for wheat and wine. Restored for slow mornings.
Velatura stands alone at the end of a cypress drive four hundred metres long. The farmhouse, its dovecote tower and the old granary hold six suites, a vaulted spa and a kitchen built around a wood oven. Around them lie forty hectares of olives, vines and wheat, and a view that runs south to Monte Amiata.
The name is a painter’s word: a velatura is the thin glaze the Sienese masters laid over their hills. The valley wears the same veil every morning.
6
suites
for up to twelve guests
40
hectares
of olives, vines and wheat
18
metres
of travertine pool facing Amiata
6
km
to Pienza, ten minutes by car
02Six suites
Six suites,six views of the valley.
Each suite takes two guests and has its own bathroom, linen woven in Prato and windows that frame a different part of the valley.
48 m² · Sleeps 2
I of VI · in the dovecote tower
La Torre
The top two floors of the old dovecote. Sleep above, bathe below, and wake to the cypress drive in one window and Monte Amiata in another.
- Bed
- King bed, 180 × 200
- Bath
- Stone bathtub and walk-in shower
- View
- Windows on three sides
03A day at Velatura
From the first mist to the last star.
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Coffee on the loggia while the Orcia valley is still under its veil.
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Pecorino, figs, warm schiacciata and eggs from the farm next door.
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The pool faces Monte Amiata. Salt water, heated from April to October.
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Roll the local pasta with Graziella at the long kitchen table.
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Vin Santo or a Negroni on the terrace, while the hills turn copper.
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Four courses under the pergola, or pizza from the wood oven.
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Six kilometres from the nearest town, the sky goes properly dark. Look up.
04Beyond the gate
The valley,at your own pace.
Chiara, who looks after our guests, arranges all of this, drivers and tables included, and anything else you have in mind.
All experiencesAt the table
Graziella’s kitchen
Breakfast under the olives, pici rolled by hand at the long table, and a cellar of Brunello and Vino Nobile from the neighbours.
Food & WineCelebrations
Long tables on the lawn
Small weddings, birthdays that end at two in the morning, three generations at one table. The house is yours for all of it.
Weddings & events05Gallery
Through the seasons.
Guest book
We came for a week and left with a different sense of time. Coffee on the loggia, watching the mist burn off the valley, is something we will carry for years.
Twelve of us, three generations, and a house that seemed to have been waiting for exactly us. Chiara thought of everything before we did.
Graziella’s pici were the best thing we ate in Italy, and we ate a great deal of Italy.
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06Seasons & rates
The whole villa,by the season.
Velatura is let as one house, to one party of up to twelve guests. Rates are per night for the whole villa, and every stay includes:
- Breakfast every morning
- Daily housekeeping and fresh linen
- The pool, the spa and the e-bikes
- A welcome dinner on your first evening
- Chiara, before and during your stay
Prices in euro, VAT included. The municipal tourist tax is charged separately. A 30% deposit holds your dates.
April to June · September to October
Primavera & Autunno
- Wildflowers in May, the grape harvest in September
- The pool heated from April
- A harvest lunch in the vines, in September
July and August
Estate
- Pool and garden team on site
- A private chef two evenings a week
- Films on the lawn after dark
07Finding us
Ten minutes from Pienza.A long way fromeverything else.
Fly into Florence or Rome and we will meet you with a car, or send directions for the last two kilometres of white road. Trains from both cities stop at Chiusi-Chianciano Terme, 35 minutes away.
- Pienza10 min
- Bagno Vignoni15 min
- Montepulciano25 min
- Montalcino35 min
- Chiusi station35 min
- Siena1 h
- Florence airport1 h 45
- Rome Fiumicino2 h 30
Now booking 2027
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