Tenuta Colfiorito is situated a few kilometers from Rome, in the Municipality of Castel Madama, at the exact place where a Roman villa stood two thousand years ago. The locality was in fact well known to the ancient Romans, who have left numerous traces here such as the Claudian aqueduct and the villa of the poet Horace.

The farm nestles in the area of the Tiburtine Mountains. It begins just past Tivoli and opens out onto the Empolitana Valley. This is an ancient landscape, still uncontaminated by the proximity of Rome. Here the people have always devoted themselves to the cultivation of olives and vines, and to pastoral farming.

The farmhouses that are no longer necessary for the business have been partly restored to offer allocation to visitors in a serene environment, evoked in the verses inscribed on the stone set in the atrium of the proprietor’s farmstead, which sums up the philosophy of hospitality, traditional to this place:

“O thou who driven by desire of peace, most friendly visitor, dost linger here, follow my counsel and all fretting cease: all baleful troubles that do thee molest let my old horn console with music dear, be happy and…. to me leave all the rest...”

Furnished apartments

The furnished air conditioned apartments of “TENUTA COLFIORITO”, have been designed to offer guests quietly elegant accommodation in a warm, relaxing atmosphere.

All apartments consist of a bedroom with shower, and a living room with a kitchenette and fridge.

Cottages

Two buildings are detached from the central group of farmhouses, and rather than a single bedroom both have two, each with a shower, as well as a kitchen and living room opening onto the age-old olive grove.

All buildings containing apartments guarantee the highest standards as regards the structure and the fittings; all are equipped with air conditioning for summer and central heating for winter.

The farm

In centuries past, the ancient hamlet of Colfiorito Farm was part of a vast rural property of which the main section at its heart, specialising in the cultivation of olives and vines, split off to be farmed separately.

It extends for more than thirty hectares following the slope the hill that is covered by vines and by 4,000 olive trees whose twisted forms show the passage of time. Besides the main hamlet, there are other buildings on the farm, once lived in by peasants working the land. The ancient oil-mill, now only of historical value, still retains its old grindstone and other reminders of times past.The farm is so extensive that is possible to spend whole days relaxing here.