August 19, 2021
Tuscany’s castle hotels operate at their own smooth speed. They’re fortifications, to be sure, but like seemingly everything else in the region, they also exude style and serenity.
Castles come in all shapes and sizes, and can look like everything from a pristine Disney fairytale to Winterfell after the White Walkers. In between are all manner of manors, the only consistency being that they were all once private residences, built to house the handsomely titled, and fortified against attack. Thankfully, Tuscany has turned some of them into hotels.
You’ll see familiar features in the hotels below, from towers and turrets to keeps and crenellations. But in true Tuscan fashion, these castles appear quite a bit more livable than many of their medieval brethren, and just as concerned with comfort and aesthetics as they are with obstructing an onrushing army. No surprise, then, that some of them spent part of their past lives as monasteries.
