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Reschio hotels
An Umbrian castle shares its estate with restored farmhouses, Spanish horses and a furniture studio.
Reschio makes the Umbrian estate itself the destination, with a restored castle hotel, farmhouses, olive groves, vineyards, and Spanish horses spread across the hills near Tuscany. The Bolza family’s restoration began after acquiring the estate in 1994, and Benedikt and Nencia Bolza later turned their former home in the castle into an intimate hotel with its own design language.
1 Reschio hotel in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by the Bolza family
- Worldwide: One hotel — Castello di Reschio, 36 suites, Lisciano Niccone, Umbria, Italy — plus an estate portfolio of privately rentable and purchasable villas restored from original farmhouse ruins across the 3,700-acre estate. No expansion to other markets is planned or announced.
- On the atlas: 1 Apex Luxury
History
Antonio Bolza’s 1994 purchase began a long restoration of the Reschio estate. His son Benedikt and daughter-in-law Nencia developed an in-house design practice, bringing farmhouses and the castle back into use with local craftspeople. The castle hotel’s 2021 opening gave guests a new way to experience a project that had already shaped the family’s home for decades.
Timeline
- c. 900 CE — Tower of the Castello di Reschio constructed; the castle follows, built as a strategic fortification whose name derives from the Latin Resculum, fortification, attesting to Etruscan and then Roman settlement on the upper slopes.
- 1355 — Reschio becomes an independent Imperial fiefdom under the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1692–1932 — The noble Bichi Ruspoli family of Siena administers the estate for 240 years; they build the local elementary school and sustain the network of tenant farms that keeps the fifty-odd farmhouses populated.
- 1730 — Pope Clement XII, born Lorenzo Corsini, bestows the title "Conte di Reschio" on his niece's husband, a Bichi Ruspoli, making the Corsini family the ancestral link between the papacy and the estate. That niece, Anna Corsini, is a direct ancestor of Donna Nencia Corsini, who will marry into the estate 269 years later.
- 1984 — Count Antonio Bolza and Countess Angelika Bolza first arrive at Reschio, purchasing a holiday home on the estate, an encounter that plants the seed of a life's project. (Reschio DNA; World's 50 Best Hotels)
- 1994 — Count Antonio Bolza acquires the full Reschio estate; systematic restoration of farmhouses and the castle itself begins. (Fora Travel; Dezeen)
- 1999 — Benedikt Bolza, trained as an architect at the Architectural Association, London, marries Donna Nencia Corsini and establishes the in-house BB for Reschio design studio, beginning a creative partnership that will shape every structure on the estate. (Artemest / BB for Reschio; Architectural Digest AD100)
- 2000 — Benedikt and Nencia take up residence in the Castello di Reschio itself, the only structure with a functioning roof, and raise five children there over the following decade while restoration continues around them.
- 2010 — Benedikt Bolza named to the Architectural Digest AD100, one of the world's 100 most influential architects and designers.
- 2013 — The Tabaccaia, a former 1940s tobacco processing facility at the centre of the estate, is transformed into the creative headquarters: architecture studio, photography, graphic design, and video production, all under the BB for Reschio banner.
- Spring 2021 — Hotel Castello di Reschio opens to its first guests: 36 suites within the restored 10th-century castle (30 suites in the castle proper, 6 adjacent to the parish church of San Michele). The hotel is designed, furnished, and operated entirely by the Bolza family without any external management company. (Dezeen; Sleeper Magazine)
- 2022 — Hotel Castello di Reschio named to the Condé Nast Traveller Hot List 2022, "Best New Addresses Around the World", barely one full season after opening.
- 2024 — Castello di Reschio ranked No. 42 on The World's 50 Best Hotels 2024, an extraordinary debut on the global list for a three-year-old property; simultaneously recognised among the "Most Charming Hotels in Italy" at the Forbes DUCO Awards 2024.
- 2024 — Receives initial MICHELIN Keys recognition from the MICHELIN Guide for hotels in Italy, in the guide's inaugural Italian hotel edition.
- 2025 — Awarded Three MICHELIN Keys, the highest MICHELIN Guide hotel distinction, one of only eight properties in Italy to reach this rank; cited for "extraordinary stay," an "authentic lifestyle with design and atmosphere.".
- March 2026 — Palmieri, a former staff house, opens as the newest Reschio House after an 18-month restoration; features a private underground Bathhouse and a pool framed by century-old oaks. The Chocolate Box Theatre is inaugurated adjoining Ristorante Alle Scuderie, a two-tiered intimate performance space for plays, poetry, concerts, and lectures.
The houses to know
- Castello di Reschio, Lisciano Niccone, Italy — The family’s restored castle brings a hotel together with a working farm, furniture studio, and horse stud.
Newest openings
- Chocolate Box Theatre — Lisciano Niccone, Umbria, Italy — inaugurated March 2026 — Built around a spiral staircase that Count Benedikt Bolza purchased years earlier "for reasons he could not quite explain," the Chocolate Box Theatre is a two-tiered intimate performance space adjoining Ristorante Alle Scuderie, named for its jewel-box appearance and the rich assortment of cultural treats it is designed to hold: plays, poetry readings, concerts, lectures, and performances by scholars of the Reschio Music Scholarship. It is a physical statement of the estate's belief that a great luxury property is also a living cultural institution.
Opening next
- Additional Reschio Houses — Lisciano Niccone, Umbria, Italy — expected TBD — Of the original 50-plus farmhouses on the estate, more than 30 have now been restored; the Reschio DNA page notes that the remaining unrestored ruins are "gems for the future," with further rental and private-sale additions expected as the BB for Reschio studio completes each project at its own deliberate pace. No specific timelines are announced.
- Expanded wellness programming — expected TBD — The February 2026 Bathhouse announcement signals continued deepening of the estate's wellness offer, drawing on estate-foraged botanical ingredients and ancient therapeutic traditions including Kneipp water therapy and the practice of the magare — the estate's specialist therapists. No new hotels, no new markets, and no franchise or management agreements have been announced or are planned.
Every Reschio hotel on the atlas
Italy
- Castello di Reschio — Lisciano Niccone · Apex Luxury
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