For hotels & villas
Your car for the stay — already in the neighbourhood
If you are staying at one of these houses I am twenty minutes to an hour away, not the ninety a driver coming out from Florence needs. That means earlier starts, later finishes and no distance surcharge on the meter.
Every time is the real road time from Colle di Val d'Elsa, measured on OpenStreetMap road data rather than estimated. Traffic and the last unsealed stretch can add to it. Hotel categories are not listed here — classification is assigned regionally in Italy and the listings disagree with the houses themselves, so this page names the place and the drive, and leaves the stars to them.
Castello di Casole — A Belmond Hotel
Twenty-two minutes from my door. For guests of Castello di Casole I am effectively the local car — here quickly, and gone again without a long minimum on the clock.
Relais La Suvera
If you are staying at La Suvera, we are close neighbours — twenty-six minutes of back road between us. That changes everything about how transfers and day trips work for you.
COMO Castello del Nero
Barberino Tavarnelle
Grand Hotel Continental
Siena
Borgo Pignano
Volterra
Certosa di Maggiano
Siena
Villa Mangiacane
San Casciano in Val di Pesa
Borgo San Felice
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Castel Monastero
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Hotel Le Fontanelle
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Borgo Santo Pietro
Just under an hour away, and on the same side of Tuscany as the Abbey of San Galgano — one of my favourite stops sits almost on your doorstep.
Castello di Spaltenna
Gaiole in Chianti
Il Salviatino
Fiesole