At Villa Palazzetta

Only A Few Weeks Still Open For Booking in 2023.

We've had a wonderful response to our 2023 booking announcement. Only the first half of April and the first half of August 2023 are still...

We Are Now Accepting Reservations for 2023!

I don't usually put items in this blog that can be construed as "promotional." However we have experienced such an outpouring of demand...

What I Did Last October At Villa Palazzetta During Our Mandatory 14-Day Self Quarantine

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...

Look Who Recently Came To (And Made) Dinner At Our Beautiful Villa.

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. And Our Garden Is Living Proof Of That. Thanks To Matteo And Lisa Jane.

Yes, there is life in Italy.

A Birth In The Family

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

Welcome Home!

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

A Note From Our First Official Guests

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

Our Ape Calessino

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...

Olive Oil - Start to Finish

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