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Villa Cordevigo
Cavaion Veronese, Italy · Independent · Core Luxury
Two rows of cypress trees line the drive up to an eighteenth-century Venetian villa in the Bardolino hills, which the Lombardo counts held while Venice still ruled here; its courtyard sits under the bell tower of a fifteenth-century church. The Delibori and Cristoforetti families, who founded the Villabella winery on the same land in 1971, bought the complex in 2002 and spent nine years putting it back before opening forty rooms across the villa and its barchesse. Oseleta has held a Michelin star since 2013, and the bar pours a gin distilled from berries off the park's old cypresses.
- 40 rooms
- Opened 2011
About Villa Cordevigo
- Oseleta won its Michelin star in 2013 under Giuseppe D'Aquino and still holds it for 2026 under Marco Marras, a Sardinian from Bosa who cooked in Geneva, Miami and Hawaii before taking the kitchen.
- The villa sits inside a hundred-hectare estate, twenty-three hectares of it farmed organically, and the restaurant cellar runs past six hundred labels.
- Marco Antonio Lombardo, Bishop of Crema and lord of Cavaion, rebuilt much of the villa in the second half of the eighteenth century and restored the little church of San Martino that still closes the courtyard.
History
The Cordevigo estate sits on land that was farmed in Roman times and rose to its first real prominence in the late Renaissance under the Lombardo counts, who held the feudal rights at Cavaion until the Venetian Republic fell. The core of the house is Renaissance; the villa as it stands was reshaped in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most substantially by Marco Antonio Lombardo, Bishop of Crema, who also restored the fifteenth-century church of San Martino whose bell tower still overlooks the inner courtyard. Two lower wings, the barchesse, close the square around a fountain and a small Italianate garden. After the Lombardo the property passed through the Dolci, Saladini and Moreschi families.
Walter Delibori and Giorgio Cristoforetti had been making wine together since the 1970s and founded the Vigneti Villabella winery on the surrounding land in 1971. In 2002 the two families bought the villa itself. A long conservative restoration followed, and the relais opened with its first suites in 2011; there are now forty rooms and suites through the main body and the barchesse, with wooden beamed ceilings and marble or terracotta bathrooms.
Oseleta, named for an indigenous grape grown on the estate, took a Michelin star in 2013 under chef Giuseppe D'Aquino and has kept it under Marco Marras, who joined in 2017 as chef de partie and later took the kitchen. The house is a member of Relais & Châteaux and joined the Virtuoso Sustainability Community in 2022.
The setting
Cordevigo lies in the morainic hills of Cavaion Veronese, in the hinterland between Lake Garda and Verona, and the estate is essentially the neighbourhood: a hundred hectares of vineyard, olive grove and park, with the Villabella winery next door and the classic Bardolino growing area all around it. Lake Garda is a few kilometres west, Verona a short drive southeast, and the Lake Garda Wine and Flavour Route, set up in 2001 along the Brescian and Veronese shores, runs through the same hills.
Restaurants and bars
- Oseleta Restaurant — Restaurant · Italian · Chef Marco Marras · One MICHELIN Star
- Cordevigo Restaurant — Restaurant · Chef Marco Marras
Experiences
- Vigneti Villabella wine tasting — Taste and flavour of Villabella wines made from grapes grown in the Cordevigo estate vineyards.
- Exclusive wine tasting experience — A sensory journey through curated labels and stories of the land; includes a tasting of 4 Villa Cordevigo wines for 2 people.
- Wine and history — An exclusive wine tasting experience, a sensory journey through curated labels and stories of the land, designed for connoisseurs.
- Essentia Spa day access — Access to the Essentia Spa from 2:00 pm to 7:30 pm including saunas, Turkish bath, salt room, herbal tea corner and whirlpool tubs.
Amenities
- Vigneti Villabella wine (wines from grapes of the Cordevigo estate vineyards)
- Meetings & Congresses
- Weddings & Ceremonies
- Gift solutions
- Wi-Fi
- parking
- wine tasting experience
- welcome aperitif upon arrival
Awards
- MICHELIN One Star (Oseleta) (2026)
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