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Villa Lungomonte
The three storeys of the villa facade from the side, shutters open onto the park

The house and its history

I

A private house, not a hotel

Villa Lungomonte is let on an exclusive-use basis. You take the whole property — fifteen bedrooms in the main house and two cottages in the grounds — and no one else is on site while you are here. There is no reception, no other party and nothing shared.

That is a commercial decision as much as an aesthetic one. A house of this age does not divide well, and the people who love it most are the ones who get all of it at once.

II

The principal rooms

All of it is yours. There is nothing here to choose between.

Exclusive use of the whole property

01

The great hall

Vaulted · doors to both gardens

The spine of the house, and where thirty can sit down without rearranging anything.

The great vaulted hall of Villa Lungomonte, arched doors opening to the garden at both ends

02

The drawing room

Stone fireplace · lit in the evenings

Deep red armchairs under a barrel vault, with the fire laid from October.

The drawing room with its carved stone fireplace, red armchairs and vaulted ceiling

03

The dining room

Seats 20 · Venetian chandelier

Crimson damask, family portraits, and the good glass.

The dining table set with crystal for a formal dinner

04

The staircase

Coffered dome above

A wrought-iron stair rising through the height of the house under a painted cupola.

The coffered dome above the staircase, painted in pale blue and white

05

The gallery

First floor · runs the full length

Where people read in the afternoon, and where the bedrooms open off.

The long upstairs gallery, striped sofas along a crimson carpet

06

The salon

Old master paintings

A quieter room for the hour before dinner.

A sitting room hung with old master paintings under a glass chandelier
III

The bedrooms

A bedroom with a corona-draped bed against coral walls and terracotta floor
A bedroom in rose damask with an oval painting above the bed
A canopied bed against saffron walls under a wrought-iron chandelier
Two beds with scalloped red headboards under a gilt pelmet
A green bedroom with two beds, chandelier and shuttered windows
A large bedroom with two windows, bronze chandelier and green carpet
Blue beds beneath a chandelier and an eighteenth-century canvas
A bed under a striped corona with armchairs at the foot
Two beds in crimson silk with tall padded headboards
IV

Fifteen bedrooms, no two alike

The bedrooms were furnished over generations rather than decorated in one go, and it shows: a corona-draped bed against coral walls in one room, twin beds with carved green headboards in the next, an eighteenth-century canvas over the beds in a third.

All fifteen are air-conditioned. The bathrooms are period pieces in their own right — cast-iron baths, cobalt and patterned floors — with modern plumbing behind them.

V

The bathrooms

A roll-top bath on a blue tiled floor beneath a tall window
A bathroom with an iron washstand and wooden floor
A shower set in an arched niche lined with cobalt tiles
A bathroom with patterned cement tiles and a marble basin
A blue-tiled bathroom with a bath beneath a tall arched window
A pale green bathroom with a glazed shower and window to the trees
VI

Questions we are asked

Can we rent just a few rooms?

No. Villa Lungomonte is let on an exclusive-use basis: you take the whole property, both cottages included, and no one else is on site during your stay.

What is the minimum stay?

Seven nights in high season, with Saturday changeovers. Shorter stays are sometimes possible in spring and autumn — ask.

Do we need a car?

Yes. The villa is on a hill road above Asciano Pisano, thirty minutes from Pisa airport. There is parking for eight cars.

Can we hold a wedding here?

Yes. The villa is licensed for civil ceremonies and the lower lawn seats one hundred and twenty. We work with a small number of planners who know the house.

Is the house air-conditioned?

Every bedroom is. The ground-floor rooms have metre-thick walls and stay cool without it, which is how the house was designed to work.

Are staff included?

A housekeeper comes daily and the pool is maintained twice a week. Cooks, drivers and childcare can be arranged and are billed separately.