travel42 Hotel Review: Castel Monastero

Castel Monastero travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Situated in a stunning setting, on a bluff peeking out over the Ombrone Valley, 30 minutes from its inspiration and competitor, Relais Borgo San Felice, the same distance from Siena—but in the opposite direction—and an hour's drive south of Florence Airport (FLR), this is a relative newbie, yet it is one of the noisiest of Tuscany's retreats for masters of the universe.

This is a genuine 13th-century castle, and later a monastery with a medieval piazza. Th...