Welcome to Meleto Castle, where the past and future coexist in harmony.

Like a fairytale, Meleto Castle announces itself in the enchanting Chianti landscape at the end of a pleasant driveway lined with cypresses and junipers, amid sun-kissed fields and vineyards.

A magnificent testimony of history and the industrious presence of man.

Today more than ever we are invited to plunge into the peacefulness of the countryside to savour its tastes and perfumes (wine, the odour of cellars and oil-mills, the wood of the furniture, grain, the thousand essences of field and meadow) forgetting time and its frenetic rhythms on the other side of the hills.

The Castle belonged to the Benedictine monks of the Coltibuono Abbey. The name "Meleto in Chianti" appears for the first time in 1269, in the Florentine Guelphs' "Libro degli Estimi", as the property of the family of Rainerii de Ricasolis.

 The Ricasoli family extended and embellished the building over the centuries, and today the Castle still has its massive 15 th century fortifications with an imposing cylindrical tower built as protection against artillery fire.

But there is also the aristocratic grace of the villa nobile, with its sequence of furnished and decorated rooms, and an unparalleled 18th century theatre.

The prices of all the B&B (5 rooms) in the Castle and the Canonica include breakfast in the old Farm kitchen on the first floor of the Castle where there is a great mediaeval fireplace. Oil heater heating.

The Canonica, or Priest's House, is just a few steps from out Reception Wine Lodge.

The 4 double rooms, all with brickwork flooring and large windows, are situated on the first floor.
French windows opposite the entrance lead directly to the Wine Lodge lawn, the herb gardens and the swimming pool .

In summer 1998 six apartments were created by rehabilitating estate outhouses directly built onto the Castle wall or fortification.
Each of these six apartments has a terrace or garden for life in the open air. Just 100- 150 metres away there's a fine swimming pool.

Vignanova
This recently restored round floor house is for 6 people

Meleto is in the Municipality of Gaiole, about 1 kilometre from the built up area. In Gaiole and environs there are many pizza parlours, restaurants and inns to suit all tastes and pockets.

And from Meleto you can make easy day trips to Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Arezzo, Perugia, Montalcino, Montepulciano, Chianciano, Bagni Vignoni, Pitigliano and Saturnia.