Villa Le Rose is a Renaissance villa, originally commissioned by the marquess Niccolò Antinori in the Fifteenth Century. It sits at the end of a driveway lined with cypress trees on the southern hills of Florence, just ten minutes from the city centre.
Over the centuries it has undergone numerous improvements and renovation work. Its overall Renaissance character and details sets it apart from any other villa in its category.
The layout of Villa Le Rose is typical of aristocratic Renaissance villas. It is centered around a paved courtyard, surrounded by formal gardens and set in a productive agricultural landscape.
The villa itself measures 1000 square meters and sleeps up to fourteen guests in seven bedrooms. The two gardens on either side total 1200 square meters. And an eleven hectare park, including a lake, surrounds the property.
The unique suites of the villa are immersed in the warm light of the surrounding Tuscan countryside. Be enchanted by the fresh morning breeze and the chirping of birds, or by star filled skies and the silence of a romantic evening. Spread over the two
floors of the villa, the six suites reflect the authentic charm of a historical Florentine home. Lovingly selected furnishings and finest materials create inviting and relaxing spaces. Each room has a private bathroom, air conditioning and telephone.
The Green Bedroom is the largest suite in the villa. It owes its name to the green Eighteenth Century furniture in the hallway preceding it.
A hidden passageway for staff leads to a service hallway and stairs to the ground floor.
The bedroom features a double bed, a sitting area with a working fireplace and a sizeable wardrobe.
The Green bedroom has its own en- suite marble bathroom which includes a washbasin, shower, bath, bidet and toilet.
The Baldacchino Suite is the only remaining bedroom on the ground floor as originally planned by Niccolò Antinori in the Sixteenth Century.
The walls are decorated with frescoes depicting Old Testament scenes. Research has dated the work to 1730.
The Baldacchino bathroom is frescoed with grotesque motifs from floor to ceiling
and finished with a rare portoro marble noted for its unusually wide veining.
The bathroom is composed of two rooms. The first features a bath with antique crystal fittings, a handbasin and a fireplace.
The second room, which is also entirely frescoed, houses the shower.
The Pink Bedroom is one of the more modern rooms in the villa, decorated with classic furniture and wood flooring. It is a spacious corner bedroom comprised of two single beds that can be joined together to make a double bed.
An oversize sofa-bed may, if needed, accommodate a third guest. The Pink Bedroom has its own en- suite marble bathroom which includes a washbasin, shower, bath, bidet and toilet.
This was one of the first bedrooms created on the first floor during restructuring work in the Nineteenth Century.
Favoured for its prime position, it overlooks the central courtyard on one side and the surrounding countryside on the other.
It comprises adjacent twin beds and a spacious seating area.
The Roses bedroom has its own en- suite marble bathroom which includes a washbasin, shower, bath, bidet and toilet.
The Studio was decorated at the same time as the blue living room. It features frescoes in a monochromatic neoclassical style with a trompe-l’oeil effect that mimics a bas-relief. The frescoes are framed in elaborate stucco reliefs.
Villa le Rose and the Florence Charterhouse, just minutes away from the villa, are the only two historic buildings in Florence to house this style of fresco painting.
The Oriental Bedroom owes its name to the frescoed walls depicting Chinese figures. It is the smallest bedroom but commands a central view of the villa’s park and lake beyond. Fallow deer, hares and other wildlife can be spotted roaming the estate.
The bedroom features a four-poster double bed canopied in Nineteenth Century Tuscan silk and a sitting area with a working fireplace. The Oriental bedroom has its own en- suite marble bathroom which includes a washbasin, shower, bath, bidet and toilet.
The Guest Suite is furnished in a modern style. Its corner position commands a view of the cypress tree-lined driveway that leads to the villa. The suite comprises a double bed, a study area and a wardrobe closet.
The Guest Suite has its own en-suite marble bathroom which includes a washbasin, shower, bath, bidet and toilet.
The Staff Bedroom is a double bedroom and appropriate for either children or staff. It is a self-contained, small independent apartment equipped with its own kitchenette and en-suite marble bathroom.
If required, this bedroom may also be used by the villa's guests.
The setting of the Villa Rose’s kitchen is magnificent, with its large fireplace, the grand wooden table, and its selected Tuscan materials and furnishings. Enjoy
Florence at its fullest with a delightful breakfast, a relaxing lunch, or a romantic dinner in the refreshing garden. A private chef and butler are at your service.
The Dining Room accommodates up to twenty seated guests. A large, five-tiered crystal chandelier with tear-drop and prismatic pendants hangs in the centre of the room.
Around 1700 the dining room was frescoed with the myth of Diana and Actaeon.
It depicts how Actaeon, while hunting wild boar, chanced upon Diana bathing.
Incensed by the transgression, she turned him into a stag that was duly set upon by his own dogs.
The open-plan kitchen on the lower floor is spacious and bright, and features a traditional Tuscan fireplace and bread oven. It offers all modern amenities, including a dishwasher and plenty of food storage space.
The whole lower floor maintains its original Fifteenth Century appearance, complete with barrel and cross vaulting.
Apart from Villa le Rose's 5 star hotel services and facilities that are included, the hotel's team can also offer a broad range of additional services to cater for the guests desires. Wine and oil tasting
tours, concert and opera tickets, hot-air balooning over Tuscany, arranged shopping sprees with personal assistants are but some of the extra services that can be arranged.
Tours may be organised for Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, Galleria dell’Accademia, Corridoio Vasariano, Boboli Garden and Palazzo Pitti.
Cooking classes, wine and oil tasting tours and visits to historic Tuscan wineries and cellars are suggested.
Let your soul rejoice in the thirteen-acre park surrounding the villa.
Beauty treatments in the villa, personal shoppers and visits to Florence’s best fashion stores and luxury outlets may be arranged.
The villa can organise a number of outdoor activities: golf, sailing, tennis, horse riding, mountain biking and mushroom picking.
An oasis of freshness during the summer and a perfect location to relax in the company of your family.
The villa offers luxury car and motorbike rentals, helicopter and hot-air balloon rides, visits to racetracks, track days and visits to car makers’ museums.
The Ballroom, also known as the Salone delle Feste, is one of the oldest rooms in the villa. However doubt is cast over its exact date.
VILLA LE ROSE
Via Brancolano 250029 TavarnuzzeFlorenceItaly