Excellence Luxury Villas — Italy
Luxury Villa Rentals in Italy
Tuscany · Amalfi Coast · Lake Como · Puglia · Sardinia · Sicily · Rome · Umbria
3,800+ individually vetted private estates — from Tuscan hilltops to Amalfi clifftops, trulli to palazzos
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Hilltop estates, Renaissance cities and the world's greatest wine country
Tuscany is where the Italian villa holiday was invented, and it remains unsurpassed. Rent a 15th-century fattoria on the Chianti Classico ridge between Florence and Siena, surrounded by Sangiovese vines that produce wine sold directly from your cellar. Wake up to rows of cypress trees leading to a hilltop village visible for twenty kilometres. Drive ten minutes to San Gimignano's medieval towers, twenty minutes to the Piazza del Campo in Siena, forty minutes to the Uffizi. Our Tuscan collection spans every great sub-region: Val d'Orcia — the UNESCO landscape of pale wheat fields and isolated poderi that appears in every photography book about Italy — Montalcino for Brunello, Montepulciano for Vino Nobile, the Maremma coast for those who want the Tuscan countryside with the Tyrrhenian Sea twenty minutes away.
Umbria — the Green Heart of Italy — offers truffle hunts in the forests above Spoleto, the pilgrim town of Assisi visible from your terrace, and a quietude that Tuscany has largely lost to its own success. Lazio places you within striking distance of Rome: rent a villa in the Castelli Romani hills and drive into the city for a private guided evening at the Vatican — our concierge arranges this routinely.
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The most dramatic coastline in Europe — and Rome's private palazzos
The Amalfi Coast is the most dramatic stretch of road in Europe — 50 kilometres of vertiginous cliffs, lemon terraces and pastel villages clinging to rock above the Tyrrhenian Sea. A villa above Positano — the most photographed village on earth — means watching the traghetti cross the bay from your private terrace as the sun rises over the Lattari mountains. A property in Ravello, 350 metres above sea level with Wagner's Villa Rufolo visible through the olive trees, is a different proposition entirely: cooler, quieter, and with a view that stretches to the Calabrian coast on a clear day. Capri and Ischia add island alternatives within a 45-minute boat ride of Positano.
In Rome, our collection of palazzos and private apartments ranges from a 16th-century merchant's house behind the Pantheon to a converted casino in a private garden on the Aventine Hill with a keyhole view of St Peter's dome — the most surprising and perfect view in a city of perfect views. Our Rome concierge arranges private early-morning tours of the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum, private cooking classes in the Testaccio market, and dinner reservations at restaurants that guidebooks haven't found yet.
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From the Dolomites to Sicily, from Lake Como to the Costa Smeralda. Every region, every style, every budget — all individually vetted.
From the rolling hills of Tuscany and the clifftop villages of the Amalfi Coast to the celebrity lakes of Como and Garda, the ancient trulli of Puglia, the Costa Smeralda of Sardinia, the Baroque cities of Sicily and the private palazzos of Rome — Italy delivers more variety of extraordinary villa holiday experience than any other country.
Italy — 3,800+ individually vetted private estates
Lake Como, Garda and Maggiore — Europe's most glamorous lakeside estates
Lake Como has attracted Europe's most discerning visitors since the Romans built their summer villas on its shores in the 1st century AD. Our Lake Como collection includes properties that have never appeared on any platform — historic villas with private jetties where the lake is 400 metres deep and the Alps rise directly from the water on three sides. Rent a Belle Époque palazzo in Bellagio, the most perfectly positioned town in Italy, or a modernist villa above Varenna where the ferry to Bellagio leaves from below your garden gate. The concierge arranges a private boat, and within twenty minutes you can be at a restaurant on the opposite shore that has no road access at all.
Lake Garda — the largest lake in Italy — combines a northern shore that feels entirely Alpine with a southern shore that is Mediterranean in temperature and character, producing some of Italy's finest white wines at Lugana and Bardolino. Lake Maggiore's Borromean Islands, rising from the centre of the lake with their baroque gardens, are among the most extraordinary horticultural achievements in Europe. The Dolomites add a winter ski and summer hiking dimension that no Mediterranean country can match — our mountain chalet collection extends into Alta Badia, Cortina d'Ampezzo and Livigno.
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Southern Italy's three extraordinary islands and the heel of the boot
Puglia is the most rapidly rising luxury destination in Italy and the one that competitors are most consistently failing to describe properly. The Valle d'Itria — the trulli valley between Alberobello, Locorotondo and Cisternino — is one of the most photographed landscapes in the world, but the finest properties here are not trulli curiosities but converted masserie: fortified farmhouses of 15th and 16th-century origin, some of extraordinary scale, sitting in hundreds of hectares of silver olive groves that have been harvested continuously for a thousand years. The coast at Polignano a Mare, Monopoli and the Salento peninsula offers some of the clearest water in the Adriatic alongside a food culture — burrata, orecchiette con le cime di rapa, fresh sea urchin — that makes every meal an argument for returning.
Sardinia's Costa Smeralda delivers the finest beach-and-pool combination in the Mediterranean, with the added privacy of an island whose best properties face beaches accessible only by boat. Sicily's extraordinary variety — the Baroque UNESCO city of Noto, the Valle dei Templi at Agrigento, Mount Etna's vineyards producing wines from grapes grown in volcanic soil, the Aeolian Islands visible from the north coast — makes it the single most historically rewarding villa holiday destination in Europe.
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