Hotels in Chianti
In The Florentine Chianti
If you really need to stay in a town -- for transport links, for example -- the Giovanni da Verrazzano, Piazza Matteotti 28, 50022 Greve in Chianti (www.ristoranteverrazzano.it; tel. 055-853-189), hotel-restaurant sits across from its namesake's statue on Greve's triangular piazza. Rooms are on the smallish side, but are pleasantly decorated in a simple Tuscan style. Those on the front overlook the piazza, while the back rooms have terraces with late-morning sun and a view over lichen-spotted roof tiles to the Chianti hills. Prices range from 90€ to 105€ for a double.
In the Sienese Chianti
Besides the choices we've given individual reviews to, the medieval Castello di Volpaia (www.volpaia.com; tel. 0577-738-066), recommended above for its wine, rents out apartments with kitchenettes and TVs and, in a few, working fireplaces in the stony buildings of its 13th-century village for 95€ to 200€ per night for two people (plus a sofa bed for children if required), or 180€ to 340€ per night for one that sleeps seven. Guests can take part in various programs, from self-guided hikes to cooking lessons and of course tastings. They also rent lovely villas (sleeping up to 8 or 11) with private gardens and pools with views (Saturday to Saturday rental only), and lease a casa colonica on a nearby hillock amid the estate's vineyards to a hotelier who operates it as an exquisite rustic-chic hotel, La Locanda (www.lalocanda.it; tel. 0577-738-832), with 220€ to 300€ double rooms. To stay in Radda itself, the best lodgings are at the Palazzo Leopoldo, Via Roma 33 (www.palazzoleopoldo.it; tel. 0577-735-605), where the ambience is traditional and the panoramic terrace will knock you out. Doubles range from 119€ to 280€.
Cheap Sleep -- The Ristoro a Lucarelli (www.lucarelli.info; tel. 0577-733-538) in the town of the same name midway between Panzano and Radda, offers clean, simple bed-and-breakfast singles for 70€ per night and doubles for 90€. It's no frills, but a neat throwback to the days when weary travelers spent the night at a room above the tavern. The trattoria downstairs is closed on Friday.
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Borgo Argenina
From the flagstoned terrace of Elena Nappa's hilltop B&B (she bought the whole medieval hamlet), you can see the farmhouse where Bertolucci filmed Stealing Beauty in 1996. Against remarkable odds (she'll regale you with the anecdotes), Elena has created the rural retreat of your…$$$Sienese Chianti
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Castello Vicchiomaggio
A 700-year-old storybook castle, complete with a crenulated tower, has hosted Renaissance nobles, such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci and the poet-biologist Francesco Redi, and modern-day visitors who enjoy a stay on a working wine estate set amid world-acclaimed vineyards. Large,…$$Greve in Chianti - Hotel
Il Colombaio
This modest, excellently priced hotel sits in a 16th-century stone house at the edge of Castellina (near the Etruscan tomb and a 5-min. walk into town) and once housed shepherds who spent the night after selling their sheep at market. The good-size rooms with their sloping…$$Sienese Chianti - Hotel
Palazzo Leopoldo
One of the grandest palaces in Radda in Chianti dates to the 15th century and was redone as a noble residence in the 18th century. Not much has changed since then. Guest rooms open off vaulted salons and have chunky beams, colorful frescoes, and comfy traditional furnishings to offer…$Rada in Chianti - Hotel
Villa Bordoni
The quintessential Tuscan hotel, Villa Bordoni is set among olive arbors and grape vineyards in a landscape the ancient Romans would recognize. The hotel has that same sense of history with just 11-uniquely decorated rooms, some with claw footed tubs, others with hand painted tiles…$$$Florentine Chianti - Hotel
Villa Pecille
The Conca d'Oro, or "Golden Shell," is one of the Chianti's most scenic stretches, and precisely one rental property has a prime perch amid the vines surveying it all. The magnificent stone casa colonica known as Villa Pecille has been converted into five spacious apartments,…$$$Florentine Chianti - Hotel
Villa Rosa di Boscorotondo
This hotel offers countryside seclusion at modest prices -- a rarity in the Chianti for a place retaining its original features and roominess yet modernized with an elegance that lends it a rustic air. The curtained beds on wrought-iron frames rest under beamed ceilings, and rooms…$$Florentine Chianti
