Restored, and left in its own character
Villa Conti occupies a nineteenth-century villa that has been carefully restored, and the restoration was governed by a single idea: the house should still read as the house it has always been. Nothing has been flattened into a corporate interior. Rooms keep their original proportions, doors line up along quiet corridors, and the countryside light travels deep inside through windows that were cut for a residence rather than for a lobby.
Timber beams run overhead in the upper rooms, and exposed brickwork appears wherever the old structure decides to show itself. Furniture is classic Italian, chosen to sit comfortably beside those details instead of competing with them. The result is residential in feeling: there is space to spread out, space to leave a book where you left it, and doors that open straight onto the garden when the afternoon gets warm.
The main facade faces the garden, and the arched openings on the ground floor lead out towards the terraces and the pool beyond them.
Around the house the garden gives way to fields and low hills, and there is very little between the property and the horizon. Mornings here are unusually quiet, and the evenings bring the sort of long, slow light that keeps people outdoors far past the hour they intended to come in.
The centre of Fauglia can be reached on foot. Its cafés and trattorias give guests an easy way to spend an evening among villagers rather than visitors, which is one of the reasons a stay in this part of Tuscany feels different from a stay in the cities.
