Two last minute cancellations have left two much coveted dates open at Villa Palazzetta: June 4-10 (six nights) and July 28 - August 1 (4...

The Villa Palazzetta wine harvest is a family affair. We arrived at Villa Palazzetta at 10pm on Monday night. It was dark so we couldn't...

It is often thought that Summer in Italy is too hot to enjoy. A lot of the people tend to prefer to come to Italy during Spring and Fall,...

Thunderstorm over Val d'Orcia, Tuscany

Villa Palazzetta in 2023

In late winter and spring when you buy oranges you can select blood oranges from Sicily. They are called blood oranges, um, because of...

When we arrived at the Villa two days ago, our winemaker, friend, gardener extraordinaire and agronomist, Matteo Turchi, presented us...

Because of a very recent cancellation Villa Palazzetta is now available from May 15 to May 28 which is probably the absolute best time to...

This video is made from 39 still images selected from more than 500 cloud photos taken during our 14-day Covid self-quarantine at the...

Giada de Laurentiis, Bobby Flay and a big film crew spent a week filming an episode for their new series in September of 2019 (before...

Yes, there is life in Italy.

We bought Villa Palazzetta because of its incredible location only five minutes walk from the historic city center. We also bought it...

We arrived this spring on April 7th after visiting Matera, an ancient town in southern Italy that was just named one of the Cultural...

In March our first official guests visited Villa Palazzetta. The note they left in our guestbook says it all. But Maryellen, one of the...

If you been to an Italian hill town then you've seen Piaggios. After WWII Piaggio invented this small engine, three wheel vehicle as an...

Another fall means another olive oil harvest. Matteo Turchi our fantastic groundskeeper did a fabulous job with this year's olive crop....