For another year, Casa Portagioia has been voted amongst the top 5

Best Bed and Breakfasts in the world.

Casa Portagioia is an elegant yet relaxed country retreat in Tuscany – somewhere between a country hotel and your best friend’s home.  It is a place where you can relax, take time to reflect on your travels and to be energized and enthused in to seeing more of the wonderful places Tuscany (and Umbria) have to offer.

Whether you plan to try some Pecorino from Pienza or some of Tuscany’s famous wines or discover the antiquities of Arezzo, the treasures of Cortona, Montepulciano and Siena or the tranquillity that is Assisi – even a day trip to Florence - (an hour by train) - these are just a few ideas to contemplate whilst you sit back and relax by our heated swimming pool enjoying the ever changing Tuscan vista that surround Casa Portagioia.

Casa Portagioia offers 5 independent guest bedrooms and 2 suite apartments, all with luxury bathrooms and air-conditioning. Our accommodations are fresh and inviting.  For a Tuscan country bed & breakfast you’ll find everything ‘just so’ from our ever-so comfortable orthopaedic beds to the modern bright bathrooms with 'Floris Natural Benefits' to the lovely views of our gardens and the surrounding Tuscan countryside.

Breakfast at Casa Portagioia can be quite a perilous activity!  You might find yourself sitting on our terraces for hours on end – taking in the views, sipping a fresh cappuccino when you had planned to be on the road discovering more than just our beautiful valley – such is the relaxed style at Casa Portagioia.

You might also be at Casa Portagioia for one of our dinner parties.  During the summer these take place on one of our terraces overlooking the bucolic splendour of the valley.  A five-course dinner is served – and you might like to try some of Tuscany’s finest and award winning wines from our cellar.

The focal points of Casa Portagioia are the spectacular pool with its panoramic views of the Tuscan countryside and Casa Portagioia’s gardens.  The Cypress lined drive, the lavender, roses, rosemary and ginistra mingle with terracotta pots bursting with summer colours and fragrances.  This can be your 'Home in Tuscany' whenever you choose.

During August, Tuscany hosts the famous Tuscan Sun Festival an international venue for music, wine tasting, cooking and more. Last year; 2011, - Sharon Stone, Jeremy Irons, Martha Argerich, and Sting's wife Trudie Styler were amongst the international stars invited. The Tuscan Sun Festival’s music programme also boasts some of the world’s most distinguished artists: leading violinist Pinchas Zukerman, cellist Amanda Forsyth and Italian flutist Andrea Griminelli performed in concerto;  and Co-Founder of the Tuscan Sun Festival Nina Kotova joined the Nocturne evening; violinist Michael Guttman presented a night of Schubert; award-winning pianist Leif Ove Andsnes played Beethoven 

For further details, check the Tuscan Sun Festival - 2012 press release 

And, the perfect place to stay relax and enjoy Tuscany during the Tuscan Sun Festival is Casa Portagioia!

More details from the Festival del Sole website

Extract of a Review by Maria and Jig October 2011.

Painstakingly rebuilt and redesigned from an older property by hosts Terry and Marcello, Casa Portagioia has the richness, thoughtfulness, beauty, elegance and precision of a true work of art.

Called a B&B but more accurately described by the phrase “five-star boutique hotel,”  it nurtures all of a guest’s senses. Smell through the fragrances of the lush plantings and the lavender pillow spray…touch through the fine linens and heated pool…taste through the wonderful food, from the fresh exotic fruits placed in guest rooms to the delicious breakfasts to the five-course chef’s dinners offered twice a week…hearing through the serenely quiet setting, where the rustling of leaves and song of birds are often the only sounds. As for sight, we’ll just say that from its cypress-lined drive to the 360-degree view of the surrounding hills, Casa Portagioia is a microcosm of all the visual beauty for which Tuscany is famous. In fact, it’s so beautiful and relaxing that it’s tempting to skip a day of sightseeing simply to sit, nap or wander the beautiful premises from the sun-warmed terraces to the olive grove......

 

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A Karen Brown
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2012 Events

3rd Sunday June
ll Palio dei Rioni.    2011 Winner: "Filuferru" (Porta Fiorentino) Additional information