Aerial view of Borgo Scopeto near Vagliagli: the stone hamlet with its tower, pools and gardens, surrounded by olive groves, cypresses and vineyards

Vagliagli

Borgo Scopeto Wine & Country Relais

Medieval hamlet · Five-star relais · Views of Siena

Borgo Scopeto began as a fortified outpost of Siena; its name comes from the heather once cut here for brooms. Florence took it and left a stone Marzocco lion, still in the main garden. From the fourteenth to the nineteenth century the Sienese Sozzini family turned it into a castle and farming village, and in the 1990s Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini bought and restored it, with the Borgo Scopeto winery a few kilometres away.

The 52 rooms, suites and villas are spread through the castle, the manor house and the hamlet, and many look straight at Siena’s Torre del Mangia. There are two pools: Borgonero, adults only and heated, and the larger family pool of Misciano. La Tinaia serves Tuscan dinners, Il Glicine Bistrot a lighter lunch, and the old rainwater cistern is now the wine room. A spa uses the estate’s own grapes, oil, lavender and helichrysum.

Features

  • 52 rooms, suites & villas
  • Two pools (one adults only)
  • Spa
  • La Tinaia restaurant
  • Views of Siena
  • Tennis

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