CasaLeTolfe is a group of rural houses nestled within the unmistakable Tuscan landscape of olive groves, vineyards, and woodlands stretching between the Strada delle Tolfe and the Torrente Bozzone.
Between 1950 and 1970, Luigi Castelli — the present-day owner’s grandfather — purchased the rural houses, known as CasaLi.
Those rural houses were occupied by the few remaining families of “mezzadria”, or sharecropping farmers, with all their animals, tools, and machinery, who divided the products and profits of an agricultural company (farm) in half with the landowner.
Unfortunately, by the end of the 1950s, those homes had suffered a strong phenomenon of abandonment and neglect, due to the need for farmers to find less strenuous and better-paid jobs in neighboring cities.
Luigi Castelli converted the CasaLi into modern homes and had them finely renovated by architect Sergio Cocito.
The complex became a Residence in 1987, which, in Italy, is an accommodation facility with furnished apartments and hospitality services for extended stays.
To date, Giotto Castelli, an aeronautical engineer, together with his partner Emanuela Labella, an architect, both rich in professional experience in their respective fields and with many years spent in Great Britain, pay close attention to guests and their needs. Their expertise in the international hospitality sector combines beauty with functionality, maintaining the original rural features and the intrinsic biodiversity of the place.
