Relais di Bracciano Culinary Luminaries - Green Vacations

Character: Very large equestrian estate with comfortable rooms, elegant suites and a gourmet restaurant. Advantages: Quiet, secluded, great for visiting off-the-beaten-track hill towns and fairy-tale castles like the one where Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes enjoyed the marriage of the century. Location: Walk to Lake Bracciano, just under an hour north of Rome and slightly more than half an hour from Fiumicino Airport. Excellent for decompressing after or before your transatlantic flight. Click here to see a map. Size: 25 rooms and 7 suites, including elegantly furnished “theme rooms.” Features: Air conditioning, mini-bar, satellite television, direct-dial telephone, private bathroom with hair dryer and shower. Gourmet Slow Food restaurant serving local specialties using organic home-grown ingredients and meat from the estate; Internet point; swimming pool; tennis; equitation lessons and horseback rides. Price includes breakfast. Minimum stay: One night. Disadvantages: If you are allergic to animals, there are horses, cattle, goats and sheep on the estate (albeit not near the lodgings). Car needed: Yes.

Dying to see the magnificent 16th-century castle where Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had their dream-come-true wedding? Then we suggest you spend a day or two right down the road at this 375-acre estate, a gracious country farm that can also claim the prestigious designation of "Relais," given only to high-quality European country retreats. Within walking distance of the lake, it is one of the few places in Italy that hosts elegant drag hunts, and it has a 5-star gourmet restaurant that is a leader in the local Slow Food movement. Its location is perfect for day trips to countless nearby hill towns, Etruscan tombs, the seashore or even to Rome (a convenient commuter train is just 7 Km away; trains leave every 30 minutes and take 39 minutes to get to St. Peter's Basilica). And since Fiumicino Airport is also less than half an hour away, you may want to schedule a couple restful days here at the beginning or end of your trip.

If you stay at the Relais, you will be ensconced in one of 25 rooms or 7 very large junior suites and suites, all with private bath (with shower), air conditioning, direct-dial telephone, independent heating, satellite TV and mini-bar. There's an attended 35 x 75-foot swimming pool with bar service nestled in a beautiful park, an equitation school with an English-language instructor (bring your own attire, please), a sports activities center with tennis courts, and mountain bikes for hire. Not too far from the farm are the Le Querce golf club (15 miles) and the Vallelunga Auto Race Course (10 miles).

For this property:
A small animal is welcome for 6 Euro/day.

Half Board includes dinner and costs 30 Euro more per person (not including beverages). Click here to see a sample menu.

The pool is open June 1-September 30.

Click here for information about private transfers to the property.

Please note that you need a car to stay here.

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