Umbria, on an estate the house puts at over 1,500 hectares and Dezeen at 3,700 acres. The Bolza family arrived in 1984; Dezeen records the estate as acquired by Count Antonio Bolza in 1994. His son Benedikt restored the castle with his family and it took its first guests in spring 2021 with thirty-six suites. Fifty ruins have become thirty-one houses. It is this volume’s exception: the castle is sold by the room, the estate’s houses are let whole.
The house
Reschio describes itself as “an over one thousand year old estate” and says “construction on the present castle began around the year 900”; its page for the castle gives a different figure, “The Castello, built in 1050”, and the Tower Suite is dated to 900 AD. The documented history runs from 1355, when the estate came under the direct influence of the Holy Roman Empire, through the Bichi Ruspoli period of the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, and takes in the election of Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini as Pope Clement XII in 1730. The Bolzas arrived in 1984 and made it home in the mid-1980s; Benedikt Bolza married Nencia Corsini in 2000.
The family’s claim for the work is numerical: “from 50 ruins, 31 houses have metamorphosised”, over more than three decades, on an estate “owned, designed, run and inhabited by the Bolza family themselves”. The castle opened in spring 2021. Dezeen reported thirty-six suites, of which “in total 30 suites were built within the castle itself” and “a further six suites were built next to the parish church”, and recorded Benedikt Bolza as having designed bespoke beds and lighting through his brand BB for Reschio. Alongside the hotel the estate lets whole houses: Cercoschene has four bedrooms, sleeps eight, and is let from 5,087 euros a night.
What distinguishes it
It sells both ways, which is why it sits here The castle is a hotel of thirty-six suites sold by the room and the night, at published rates from 1,115 euros, while the estate’s separately restored houses — Cercoschene among them, four bedrooms and sleeping eight — are let whole to one party. The register seated this house in Exclusive-Use Estates until 13 October 2026 and moved it on the owner’s ruling, because a house that can be let two ways is a resort rather than an exception.
The estate dates its own castle three ways The history page says building began “around the year 900”. The castle page says “The Castello, built in 1050”. The Tower Suite is described as “built in 900 AD”, and Dezeen calls it a tenth-century building. The register carries all four rather than choosing.
Fifty ruins, thirty-one houses The family’s own book states that “from 50 ruins, 31 houses have metamorphosised into stunning architecturally designed houses”, work shaped “over more than three decades” since the mid-1980s. The estate presents itself as “owned, designed, run and inhabited by the Bolza family themselves”, which is the operating premise rather than a description of style.
The furniture is made by the man who converted the building Dezeen records that Benedikt Bolza designed and crafted bespoke beds and lighting for the hotel through his furniture brand, BB for Reschio. The rooms pages describe interiors that mix “BB for Reschio Studio designs” with antiques and paintings. The conversion and the contents came from the same hand.
Two dates for the family’s arrival Reschio’s own history says “in 1984 the Bolzas arrived”, and elsewhere that they made it home in the mid-1980s. Dezeen states that the estate “was acquired by Count Antonio Bolza in 1994”. A decade separates the two accounts; both are quoted here.
A party that wants the building to itself. The castle is a thirty-six-suite hotel with two restaurants, Ristorante al Castello and Ristorante Alle Scuderie, and other guests in it. Nor is it for anyone who wants to walk to the hotel from their rented house: Cercoschene is 3.35 kilometres from the Reschio centre, at four hundred metres above sea level, on an estate with over 1,500 hectares of woodland around it.
Signature rooms and dates
Competitive landscape
Sources
What the entry rests on, read 13 October 2026. Each reference records the facts it supports, so a disputed line can be traced to the account it came from.