An ultimate destination in southernmost Corsica, a domain like nowhere else in the world. Murtoli is unique and exceptional!
It took a man with will and passion to bring the Murtoli dream to life.
Murtoli owes it to a local boy, who brought this natural heritage site back to life while perpetuating the memory of the domain and of his ancestors.
HISTORY
The history of Murtoli gets lost in the mists of time. The name of this crucial site originates from myrtle (Mirto in Italian) and sounds like immortelle.
La Vallée de Ortolo (Ortolo Valley) is said to be the essence of the first Eden. Grottoes, water-springs, game... The cavemen were not mistaken when they came to settle in the valley.
The vestiges of Cauria, enigmatic stone statuary, bears witness to their presence here.Cattle and sheep farming is not new in the valley as it started to develop back in the 16th century.
This period marked the beginning of a livestock-farming era in the region. Shepherds started to settle in the valley. Perched on rocks or on the Genoese tower, they would watch over their herds and cattle, while keeping a close watch on the sea as, at the time, it could bring many dangers.
The Lion of Roccapina has seen a lot too. The mountains witnessed, amongst other things, how the Tasmania was ship-wrecked against the reef of the Moînes islands in April 1887, and how the local shepherds offered hospitality to the survivors.
A legend says that, following the ship-wreck, a bandit stole a jewellery box intended for Queen Victoria and hid it in a grotto. Some people are still looking for the legendary lost treasure in Roccapina!
But the real treasure is Murtoli, a piece of art made not by a god but by the hand of man.
The hand of a heir, brave and bold who, in 1994, combined the noble work of livestock farming and hospitality to breath new life into Murtoli. A true resurrection! Where there used to be stone ruins, now defiantly stand dwellings, happy hideaways. In the valley, the cows of the Domaine are back to their grazing. Mastic trees and holm oaks have spread. The olive trees are now shaping the valley and the fields proudly display promising crops.
Not only has the local heritage been preserved, but it also becomes richer everyday.
THE TEAM
Whether you are staying one night, one weekend, one week or more, Murtoli always welcomes you with a smile. You will see this smile on the face of each of the team members - a team that keeps the estate alive.
Murtoli is a small paradise, exquisite and luxurious, yet simple and discreet: thoughtful and highly discreet staff will provide you with a personalized service and make your daily life as easy and smooth as possible. The team will make sure that you Experience Murtoli to its fullest.
Whether you choose accommodation in villa estates or shepherds houses, your nights will be calm and quiet and your days sweet and tranquil.
Stone-built houses are beautifully simplisitic and reminiscent of true 17th century Corsican architecture.
Their walls will keep you warm in winter and cool in the summer.
Each of them features a unique atmosphere. Select the one you desire.
Murtoli offers a large variety of local products, coming both from its soil and from the nearby sea.
You will savor veal and lamb bred in own farm, fruits and vegetables grown in own garden, olive oil produced in mill, and freshly caught sea bream (Dorade) and sea urchin.
A thousand and one flavors to discover, cunningly seasoned with the scents of regional Maquis herbs.
Terrace overlooking the golf course, access to the wine cellar... Outfitted with arches and majestic fireplaces, this vast welcoming room features year-round rustic-chic cuisine.
The Bar and Table de la Ferme are located in the farmhouses staged in vast tiers of esplanades overlooking the golf course. The farmhouses feature two large rooms with patio doors, arches, wooden ceilings, tomettes (typical French Terracotta floor tile with a hexagonal shape) warmed with monumental fireplaces and antique furniture.
Long and warm evenings; inspiring creative and rustic-chic cuisine. A setting to accentuate the Domaine's farming products was necessary – The Table de la Ferme proposed itself as the ideal place to showcase the rich and abundant produce.
Wines of legends, borrowed from the adjoining dark extraordinary wine cellar will accompany you.
These opulent treasures – the finest Corsican wines in three varietal colors – resting behind a dark-glazed window, are all presented on the menu. You can find traditional French wines coming from the most well-known regions, the best champagnes, and estate favorites from Corsica, France and abroad in the discovery section of the menu.
Outside, the atmosphere is quite different as the area overlooks the golf course and features sunbathed terraces. The countryside slope and 'nest' of Murtoli welcomes you all year round, at any time of the day.
Rustic - Chic
A journey within a journey. Michelin-starred chef has turned the Table de la Ferme (Farm restaurant) into his summer residence.
Using state-of-the-art French haute-cuisine techniques, Mathieu Pacaud enhances the island’s heritage and Murtoli's products to serve the essence of Corsica in one simple and authentic meal. From May 14th to September 16th - Gastronomic restaurant - 1 Michelin star in 2018 Michelin-starred chef enhances the regional delicacies through his unique flavors.
Come on a journey within a journey with the chef Mathieu Pacaud – owner of restaurants in Paris: Hexagone, History, Divellec or even Apicius – as he enriches a culinary experience throughout the summer.
Right behind the piano of the Table de la Ferme, assisted by his loyal team, Mathieu Pacard will compose a craftsman's cuisine, refined and delicate, respectful of the products, all locally planted, grown, and harvested. Authenticity, refinement and hospitality are at the heart of the Murtoli experience.
The owners of the estate, Paul and Valérie Canarelli, enlisted Mathieu Pacaud a four Michelin-starred chef and owner of three restaurants in Paris, Hexagone, History, and Divellec.
Pacaud creates regionaly inspired menus which showcase local products such as estate-bred veal, poultry, lobster, estate-grown vegetables, olive oil , eggs from the domain, honey, myrtle, nepita, and salt.
Experience the rich diversity of Corsican produce at every meal.
From May to September, embark on a gastronomic journey with discovery menus.
Be guided through the world of wine by famous master sommelier and Corsica enthusiast Nicolas Stromboni, voted best cellar man in 2011 and currently heading the largest wine cellar in Corsica. Chef sommelier Quentin Goepfert will assist you as well.
Enjoy a meal as breathtaking as the setting!
La Grotte (Grotto) invites you into its warm and festive lair to taste traditional and rustic cuisine by the fireplace. Outfitted with a cellar carved out of rock and panoramic terraces, La Grotte is a beautiful natural cavity turned into a spectacular restaurant.
This spectacular restaurant is tucked away in the mountain side in a magnificent and enthralling refuge of a natural grotto. The warm and festive restaurant serves traditional Corsican cuisine by a large fireplace and beautiful wine cellar.
Every Thursday evening a polyphonic band adds a touch of magic to Murtoli's already bewildering atmosphere. Come and rediscover Murtoli under the candlelights softly illuminating new multi-level terraces.
The Table de la Grotte is open all summer for dinner and welcomes everyone, including families. Children will be fascinated by this whimsical land of dreams - a land saturated by ancestral Corsican traditions and myths.
A megalithic statuary stands proudly - up in the North of Murtoli and West to the Ortolo Valley - enshrouded in the mystery of its origin. The Table de la Grotte honors true Corsican traditions leaving visitors amazed by the cultural beauty of the island.
The restaurant is available for private bookings.
Enlighten your senses with tables set with candlelight, adorned with flowers and with the smell of local lamb roasts.
Traditional, Rustic
Inspired by an ancient fisherman's hut, this outdoor Mediterrean style restaurant offers mesmerizing scenery and ambience, between olive and mastik trees, shade and sunlight.
Made of driftwood, with tables set on terraces, spread down till the bar, and even reaching out to the beach. Hidden in nooks, small lounges and large armchairs invite you to savor the passing of time while sipping a cocktail or a refreshing glass of rosé wine just before dinner.
The menu, presented on a slate puts the spotlight on everything the Mediterranean has to offer. The grill area allows you to taste locally grown meat, freshly caught fish or seafood, seasoned to enhance the original flavors.
A place to share festive moments from spring to autumn, opening as early and closing as late as weather permits.
In the summer, beautiful evenings await you, illuminated by thousands of candles spread accross the wide beach. Celebrate music and attend Corsican choir concert, Hippie-chic evening, Classical music concert; meet with local producers and taste their food...
So many occasions to experience unique moments under the stars of Murtoli, with your feet burried in the sand.
Mediterranean
Summertime relaxation in the outdoor beach spa, hidden behind flower groves, consists of massage and treatment rooms, hydrotherapy cabins and steam room.
Off-season spa treatments are provided in a dedicated room located in the Farm dwelling. Welcome to a place of beauty and serenity.
Maquis and immortelle essential oils massages and other beauty rituals.
Murtoli Spa uses Nucca products, a 100% natural care line featuring locally sourced natural premium ingredients, authentic and highly benefical for health.
DETOX RETREATS
The team of 'La Pensée Sauvage' (literally 'The Wild Thought'), is a French center started by Thomas Uhl specializing in detox and wellness treatments.
Well aware of the powerful properties of the region, the highly trained staff of 'La Pensée Sauvage' will use the most advanced care protocols to help customize a personal retreat.
The team will remain by your side throughout the course of your treatment and will assist and guide you in all of your activities, exercices, meals, spa treaments, yoga and qigong sessions.
In summer, hidden behind a hedge of myrtles, wild roses and bamboos, treatments and well-being start even before entering the spa. Under the shade of the heath, pine-tree-borded paths lead to the massage rooms, steam room and hydrotherapy cabins.
Detox, weight-loss, wellness and fitness retreats.
In fall or winter, revitalize yourself in one of shepherds houses. Depending on your residence, treatments can be provided directly in dedicated rooms of your dwelling. A whole program of well-being, relaxation and serenity...
Enjoy treatments in Murtoli Spa.
Relaxation and treatment area awaits you in the heart of the Farm house from Autumn to Spring. This place of well-being offers massages using essential oils made out of maquis plants and immortelle flowers, and many more beauty rituals.
In Murtoli, everything is proposed but nothing imposed. In the midst of this wonderful 'relax and do nothing' world, there are actually countless activities to keep you busy!
Depending on your mood and desires: learn how to ride a horse, discover the maquis plants with your family, fish sea bass and seabream, visit the famous megalithic sites of the island... Or go swimming, sunbathe, and dream away - you are in paradise!
MUROLI'S FARM
Murtoli's primary vocation lies in its farming activity. This agropastoral work is carried out with respect to the environment and its natural pace, to meet daily needs and to offer guests premium natural products such as honey, meat, vegetables, fruits, wood, flowers, and much more.
It is not unusual to cross paths with tractors returning from the fields. Spring is the time for cutting hay, extracting honey, and harvesting immortelle flowers.
Howerver, each season brings its share of work including olive tree pruning and harvesting, or olives pressing. Fall is dedicated to grazing and plowing, and picking berries and mushrooms. And finally, winter is the time to cut firewood, harvest mandarins, and weed the garden; a season to let the soil rest.
GOLF
This amazing, wild, untouched, and prodigious natural setting serves as a showcase for Domaine de Murtoli's lodges, restaurants, farm and spa. How then, could a golf course and its usual facilities harmoniously fit in a domain praised for its unspoilt purity?
Although the idea might be hard to accept for players accustomed to artificial courses, with their fake uneven grounds and obstacles created at whim, a golf course can actually stand for the complete opposite. And the first of Murtoli's extraordinary features is precisely that its golf course was already and naturally sketched and implied before any man could add its own touch.
A course almost as spontaneous and natural as the first Scottich golf courses that used to be shepherds' playgrounds back in the 18th century.
To design this 'unconventional' golf course, Murtoli hired one of the greatest golf architects and 'artists': Kyle Phillips. Kyle Phillips carried out a very special task as he was instructed not to modify the site and fully preserve its natural beauty.
Therefore he delimited a course that patterned upon the natural outline of the landscape, and through it, shaped the game, without touching the olive groves, immortelles fields, or grazes. Accomplished golfers shall see his signature in the malicious and demanding patterns of the greens and the course's unique layout.
EXCURSIONS
As far as one can remember, the Domain has always been a fusion of the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, and the world of the sea. This overwhelming green valley is highlighted by intense hues of blue and offers botanical and geological excursions and boat rides.
The trilogy of life reveals itself before you. It is essential to explore these three life-harbouring elements in Murtoli.
Besides the seminars, Murtoli also offers team building activities in order to promote workplace unity: driftwood carving, treasure hunt, outdoor activities, food and wine pairing session, Corsican vineyards tour, Corsican cooking lessons, hiking and much more...
Murtoli is a permanent invitation to discover the Corsican art of living, ranging from sense of hospitality, to the moments shared around gastronomy and wine, including all the details that make life in Corsica so special.
Paddle boards and kayaks are available for rent at the nautical base. Murtoli offers countless custom and group activities: aqua aerobics in the sea, stretching, relaxation, muscle strengthening, mountain biking for children with games and archery.
Murtoli is the embodiement of a rare and unspoilt nature, to be discovered with Stéphane Rogliano, Corsican biotope specialist, nose, and maquis plants expert.
Introduction to Corsican cooking with the chef; discover and learn about the local cuisine.
Murtoli's farm produces its own goat cheese: fresh Brocciu, Brocciu Passu – slightly refined, and smoked Tome Sartenaise, which following traditions, is carefully rubbed with olive oil by shepherds, and left for ripening in a cheese cave from 6 to 12 months.
Along with the cheese, the most emblematic product of the island remains its delicatessen. You will taste the Prisuttu - local dry ham, Coppa, Lonzu and other Panzetta delicately served on an olive tree board, or in winter the Figatellu slowly grilled in the fireplace.
The property is located at the southernmost point of Corsica. A river runs across the 2,500 hectars estate and stretches across a 10 km coastline with rocks and beautiful beaches. It is ideal spot for inshore fishing, trolling, offshore fishing and river fishing.
Enjoy a food tasting at the Table du Domaine and test your wine pairing skills. Tast 'nustrale' cold cuts, learn about Murtoli's cheese making.
A lovely Golf course that looks like no other. Which is precisely why the rules are different in Murtoli. A course shaped by the whims of nature. Classic golf courses and golf carts lovers, be warned! In Murtoli, one must like to be surprised, or simply give up!
The Ortolo region offers a rich mineral variety, captivating and mysterious. You will enjoy exploring the archaeological sites of Castellu, the medieval site of Pianu di U Grecu, and the plateau of Cauria and its megaliths.
In spring, honey is collected throughout the whole maquis, stretching out from the sea to the mountain. It then reflects all the complexity of the scrubland flowers. In autumn, collection starts in November, stretching from the coastline to the mountain.
Huge estate offers a thousand trails ideal for horseback riding. You will enjoy breathtaking landscapes. Ponies and horses both live in the valley. Recreational activities and rides can be specially designed for children.
Step aboard a Pointu, pointed-bowed wooden fishing boat typical to South of France, to navigate along the coast. This stunning tour is also available in kayak, aboard boston whaler in small committee, or on the yacht with a skipper.
The Domain is overflowing with animals. You will admire cows and horses quenching their thirst in the Ortolo River, sheeps standing out on green meadows, partridges and pheasants flying away, wild boar piglets crossing fields.
Private concerts on the vast sandy beach, romantic marriage proposals, birthdays, anniversaries, banquets, wedding ceremonies, seminars, incentive stays, team building, product launches, etc. You only need to imagine it and Murtoli will make it happen.
Carefully designed beach is exclusively accessible to guests and comes along with all the care and attention that one can desire. Lounge chairs and armchairs made of driftwood, you will enjoy each moment.
The Domaine de Murtoli makes for an ideal location to set up legendary seminars or high efficacy incentive events. Creative and talented team is at your service to help you imagine and spawn the perfect event.
Table de la Plage, Table de la Grotte, Table de la Ferme, one thousand-year old wood, a plateau in the maquis land, the Plage d'Argent (literally Silver beach, also referred to as Cala Barbaria beach).
The garden is Pierrot's kingdom, in which he grows a large variety of vegetables, fruits and herbs: rosemary, basil, strawberries, eggplants, tomatoes, squash, cabbage and other winter vegetables, lemons, and mandarins. Get a basket and help yourself!
Visit one of the multiple vineyards around the estate, meet with local producers who will share their stories and knowledge, and get to taste their wines.
Big-scale events. Book the whole restaurant for a private event, hire a section of the large beach, decorate and light an outdoor green space, plan a balloon release, set up an orchestra at the top of a rock, hire a band to sing on the sand, etc.
Attend Corsican wine workshop in the Farm's wine cellar conducted by sommelier and discover the richness of the Corsican grape varieties.
DOMAINE DE MURTOLI
Vallée de l'Ortolo20100 SartèneFrance