10 Best Hotels in Tuscany, From the Coast to the Outskirts of Florence
While Tuscany is hands-down one of the best places in Italy to visit, there's no getting around it—it's difficult to plan a trip there. The myriad of tiny towns you've never heard of, vineyards, hills, and networks of highways to cross en route to your destination are the region's entire charm, but also are what makes it so complicated to navigate. However, a great hotel (and accommodating concierge) can help smooth out the process—which is why we've rounded up Condé Nast Traveler's highest regarded Tuscany hotels. Read on for 10 of the best hotels in Tuscany.
Every hotel on this list has been selected independently by our editors and reviewed by a Condé Nast Traveler journalist who knows the destination and has visited that property. When choosing hotels, our editors consider properties across price points that offer an authentic and insider experience of a destination, keeping design, location, service, and sustainability credentials top of mind.
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Courtesy Hotel Il PellicanohotelHotel Il Pelicano
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Gold List 2018, 2019 
Readers' Choice Awards 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023Porto Ercole
The location: Porto Ercole, a coastal town in Southern Tuscany situated around a yacht-filled harbor, halfway between Florence and Rome
Top amenities: The beach club—one of Italy's best oceanfront properties, and a 2023 Michelin-starred restaurantIl Pelicano is one of Italy's most legendary and best-known hotels, one which has been open since 1979 and where Sophia Loren and other Hollywood royalty have stayed. The bedrooms are crisp and bright: some have ocean views, some have balconies and terraces, and some have floors made of Carrera marble. The more casual restaurant, Pelligrill, is considered a classic with the yacht crowd and overlooks the pool and ocean, perfect for sunset; while the 2023 Michelin-starred Restaurant Il Pellicano earned accolades for its creative uses of ingredients from land and sea including pigeon, lobster, and shrimp.
Courtesy Casa IrishotelCasa Iris
$Orbetello
The location: Orbetello, a small, walled coastal town on a lagoon and a peninsula, Grosseto, once the site of an ancient Etruscan settlement; located midway between Florence and Rome
Top amenities: Breakfast served, highly personal service from the two owners
This luxurious, all-done-up bed and breakfast, set in a peach colored palazzo on the town's main drag, is highly personal, with just three bedrooms inside and the owners filling the roles of concierges. Before they purchased it, the 15th century property was full of historic frescoes—the owners proceeded to hire a restorer who had worked on the Sistine Chapel to make it their own. A cozy breakfast is served to guests in the communal kitchen, featuring fresh apricot jam; and the rooms are works of art, with walls whose historic layers of paint have been scraped into designs.
Rosewood Castiglion del BoscohotelRosewood Castiglion del Bosco
$$$ | Readers' Choice Awards 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022Montalcino
The location: Montalcino, a hilltop town famed for its production of Brunello di Montalcino wine, made from the town's sangiovese grosso grapes—it's an hour and a half by car from Florence and 45 minutes by car from Siena
Top amenities: On-site Brunello di Montalcino winery, 18-hole golf course, cooking classes, spa, infinity pool, truffle-hunting outings
We've already listed the terrific amenities—which, yes, include truffle hunting—but if you need more information on Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco, we'll go on. This Tuscan estate is on 5,000 acres and has 42 suites and 11 villas. Travel reporter and Condé Nast Traveler contributor Laura Itzkowitz—who lived in Rome previously and writes often about Italy—describes the bedrooms as “lavish” in her hotel review for the magazine:
“If money were no object,” she writes, “I would check into one of the sumptuous villas and never leave. Each one comes with a private heated pool, though some feature woodburning pizza ovens, a home theater, or tennis court.”
Beth Evans/Courtesy Castello di VicarellohotelCastello di Vicarello
Gold List 2019Poggi del Sasso
The location: A true village in central Italy with a population of 88
Top amenities: Vegetable garden with ingredients used in food on-site, yoga, alfresco spa
This nine-suite retreat, formerly an actual family home, is set within a 12th century medieval castle. But in spite of the down-home, rustic setting—there are no TVs—this place is totally chic. Mario Testino shot a Vogue photo shoot here featuring Lara Stone. The food is an offering that sets Castello di Vicarello apart from the others in the Tuscany hotel landscape. Here's how contributor Sophie Goodwin describes it in her first-person Condé Nast Traveler hotel review:
“Ingredients are fresh from the vegetable garden, eggs straight from the chicken coop, and cakes and bread baked every morning. Breakfast is slices of Pecorino with bread, eggs with sunny orange yolks, and strong Italian coffee. Wild boar is breaded and served with a dollop of olive-oily-aioli, the al-dente spaghetti comes with fresh tomato.”We don't need any more convincing.
Cathrine Stukhard/Courtesy Marriott InternationalhotelRenaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa
$$ | Readers' Choice Awards 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022Lucca
The location: Outside the walled medieval city of Lucca, an all-time classic day trip from Florence
Top amenities: Spa, pool, bar, 24-hour service
The Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa, a 180-room luxury resort hotel by Marriott International, is surrounded by 1,500 acres of green hills and land—and by all of the special perks, amenities, and experiences you would expect from the brand. These include marble bathrooms in the rooms, cooking classes from the restaurant, and destination weddings packages. The ideal location in the heart of Tuscany means exploring the region's vineyards, tasting wine, and biking, hiking, and horseback riding are all activities on demand—not to mention the ability to stroll through the historic towns of Lucca and Barga.
Francesca Pagliai/Courtesy Fontelunga Hotel and VillashotelFontelunga Hotel & Villas
$$Arezzo
The location: The city of Arezzo, in eastern Tuscany, is well-known among history buffs and wine enthusiasts alike, and is home to a famed 15th century fresco of Mary Magdalene, as well as ample Chianti wine vineyards
Top amenities: Complimentary breakfast and bicycles, pool bar, on-site dinner parties, private cooking lessons at an extra cost
Italy writer Bridget Arsenault kicks off her hotel review of Villa Fontelunga in the dreamiest way possible:
“Set amid 200 olive trees,” she writes, “Villa Fontelunga's marmalade-colored building appears against the blue sky as you enter the driveway. Set within the beautiful hilltop town of Cortona, the hotel offers spectacular views across the Val di Chiana in the heart of Tuscany. An intimate, fairly remote Tuscan getaway, this hotel takes some research to track down. Once there, you'll find everyone from honeymooners to Italian adventure-seekers inspired by Under The Tuscan Sun to retired couples enjoying la dolce vita.”
If that isn't inspiring enough, the details she reports—including the two tiny dogs who run around the property, the Tuesday and Thursday chef-hosted dinner parties, and the honesty bar by the pool—really seal the deal.
Davide Balduzzi/Courtesy Relais Sant'ElenahotelRelais Sant'Elena
$$Bibbona
The location: Bibbona, situated between beach and forest, and home to a centuries-old fortress and medieval piazzas
Top amenities: Complimentary breakfast with an Instagrammable spread, guided farm tour with olive oil tasting, cooking class, holistic spaThis dreamy farmhouse-style 16-room boutique hotel emulates the Tuscan experience to a tee. Guests enter a secluded tangle of ivy, rose gardens, stone walls, and wood beams, the stuff of Italian storybooks. The rooms and the dining program alike are top-tier. Bedrooms are full of antiques and rain showers, while the food offered includes fresh ingredients from the on-site garden and olive oil made on-property. The food was the favorite part for reviewer, Bridget Arsenault again, who also highly recommends the bookable cooking class:
“There's daily lunch (poolside or in the whimsical garden) and you can order drinks throughout the day,” she writes. “Dinner is an otherworldly affair. You can also book an on-site cooking class and learn to make Tuscan classics like ribollita and pappa al pomodoro, fresh pastas with ragu, and tiramisu.”
She also reports a romantic vibe, and says that you'll find plenty of honeymooners and couples here.
hotelCala del Porto
$$$Punta Ala
The location: Harbor-side, in a small town on Tuscany's Southern coast
Top amenities: Sister property Cala Beach located directly on the beach, hands-on winemaking opportunity, bookable experiences including cycling tours in the Maremma and day trips to the archipelago's island
It's hard to go wrong when you're staying on a serene archipelago surrounded by turquoise harbors, smack between land and sea—the glittering ocean and Tuscan wine country. At Cala del Porto, guests get the best of both worlds. But the resort itself takes the joys even further with five-star service, in-room balconies, four restaurants, and planned experiences and excursions that are made accessible, including private yacht tours, golfing and wellness packages, and biking and wine tasting tours.
hotelHotel Adler Thermae
Bagno Vignoni
The location: Bagno Vignoni, a hamlet in the province of Siena well-known for its dramatic hot springs, overlooking Val d'Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004
Top amenities: Thermal swimming pools, sauna, steam bath, holistic spa
One of the most unique places to stay on this list, Hotel Adler Thermae makes use of its location on Tuscany's hot springs in the most delicious way possible—by providing a compound of thermal swimming pools, baths, and spas full of travertine grottoes, stalactites, and stalagmites, for guests to luxuriate in. Staying somewhere like this is one of those wish list travel experiences most people only dream about. The resort has plenty of other things going for it too, though: a glass-roofed restaurant, stellar wine list, and in-room terraces, to name a few.
hotelCastel Monastero
Readers' Choice Awards 2020Castelnuovo Berardenga
The location: Castelnuovo Berardenga, a village that's a day trip from Florence, full of castles and Romanesque churches
Top amenities: Interlocking swimming poolsCastel Monastero, a castle of a hotel 15 miles from Siena with 75 guest rooms, is well-situated for the quintessential Tuscany trip. The spacious accommodations here have “wood beams, comfortable leather sofas, terra-cotta floors, and views into the valley,” according Traveler's review of the hotel. The interlocking swimming pools have those picture-perfect valley views, as well. Oh, and how could we forget? There's also a 13th century wine cellar on the property.
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For more inspiration, see our first-hand researched rankings of Italy's best hotels, Airbnbs, and villas.
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- Best Hotels in Florence
- Best Hotels in Rome
- Best Hotels in Venice
- Best Airbnbs in Italy
- Best Airbnbs in Rome
- Best Airbnbs in Venice
- Best Villas in Italy
- Best Villas in Tuscany
- Best Villas in Lake Como
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