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The 10 best wedding venues in Tuscany

Tuscan weddings cluster in three areas: the hills immediately above Florence, the Chianti and Siena countryside, and the Val d'Orcia. Around Florence couples book Belmond Villa San Michele in Fiesole, the walled park at the Four Seasons, or the civil rooms of Palazzo Vecchio itself; further south the draw is exclusive-use property — Villa Cetinale west of Siena, the Chianti wine estate at Vignamaggio, Borgo Santo Pietro in the Val di Merse, and the fortress of Castello di Velona over the Val d'Orcia. The coast is a smaller but genuine option, led by Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole. Nearly all of these are properties where the guests sleep on site, which is why a Tuscan wedding is usually a two- or three-day programme rather than a single evening.

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Belmond Villa San Michele — wedding venue in Tuscany, Italy

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No. I

Belmond Villa San Michele

Historic hotelFiesole, above FlorenceUp to 150 in the Italian garden; 45 rooms and suites

A 15th-century monastery on the Fiesole hillside, its façade linked to Michelangelo by long tradition — Belmond's own copy now claims only that it was inspired by him. The Italian garden is the main event space and takes around 150 for drinks, dinner and dancing; the loggia holds about 110, the cloister 25, and smaller ceremonies run out among the cypresses. Forty-five rooms and suites across the old monastery buildings make a partial buyout realistic, which is what turns this from an evening into a weekend. Florence sits in the frame from every terrace without anyone having to be in the traffic.

Monastery loggia looking down on Florence

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No. IIFour Seasons Hotel Firenze

No. II

Four Seasons Hotel Firenze

City hotel and private gardenBorgo Pinti, FlorenceUp to 200 in the Conventino ballroom with the garden

The hotel is two buildings — the 15th-century Palazzo della Gherardesca and Il Conventino, a 16th-century ex-convent — set either side of 4.5 hectares of walled park, the largest private garden inside Florence. What a couple books here is really lawns: the Tempio lawn beside the botanical planting for the ceremony, the Duomo View lawn for dinner within sight of Brunelleschi's cupola, the Cedro garden under a Lebanese cedar for a smaller group. The Conventino ballroom takes the party indoors and reaches roughly 200 in combination with the garden. Almost nothing else inside the city walls can hold a full outdoor reception; the usual alternative is a forty-minute drive out of town.

Eleven private acres inside Florence

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Palazzo Vecchio — wedding venue in Tuscany, Italy

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No. III

Palazzo Vecchio

Civic palace and museumPiazza della Signoria, Florence40 in the Sala Rossa; 240 in the Salone dei Cinquecento

Florence's town hall doubles as its registry office, and the Comune marries non-residents in rooms other visitors queue to tour. The Sala Rossa is the workhorse at 40 seats, running Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings plus one Saturday afternoon a month. The Salone dei Cinquecento, under Vasari's coffered ceiling, holds 240, goes twice a month on Thursday afternoons, closes through August and is priced to match at roughly €6,600 to €8,200 for non-residents; Sala di Lorenzo and Sala dei Gigli are the mid-sized Thursday alternatives. Secure the room before the reception venue rather than after it, and assume dinner happens outside the walls.

Legally married under Vasari's ceiling

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No. IVBorgo Santo Pietro

No. IV

Borgo Santo Pietro

Country estateChiusdino, Val di MerseUp to 140 on the terraced lawn; 90 in the limonaia

Forty-five minutes south-west of Siena in the wooded Val di Merse, a restored 13th-century villa anchors a 300-acre organic farm with its own river, kitchen gardens and dairy — the supply line for Saporium, the estate's Michelin-starred restaurant. Receptions go one of two ways: the limonaia for roughly 90 seated under glass, or the terraced lawn for about 140 in the open. Twenty-two suites sleep 48, so the immediate wedding party stays on site and everyone else travels in, which makes accommodation the first problem to solve here rather than the last.

Working organic farm behind the kitchen

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Castello di Velona — wedding venue in Tuscany, Italy

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No. V

Castello di Velona

Castle resortCastelnuovo dell'Abate, MontalcinoAround 160 on the terraces; 100 seated indoors

An eleventh-century fortress on a ridge over the Val d'Orcia, converted into a 45-suite resort with a thermal spa fed by natural hot springs and its own Brunello di Montalcino production. Ceremonies are held on the panoramic terraces facing the UNESCO-listed valley, with the Watchtower and the Main Loggia absorbing the reception when the wind gets up, as it does on that ridge — about 100 seated inside against roughly 160 out. Housing guests within the castle sidesteps the shuttle problem that shapes most Val d'Orcia weddings, where the nearest spare beds are usually up in Montalcino.

Thermal springs and its own Brunello

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No. VIIl Borro

No. VI

Il Borro

Restored estate villageSan Giustino Valdarno, near Arezzo191 beds across the borgo and villas; 2–3 night minimum

The Ferragamo family restored an entire fortified hamlet here, so what a couple hires is closer to a village than a venue: the Italian garden, the terrace beside the manor house, the pool, the Tuscan Bistro, and an amphitheatre cut into the slope. Around it runs a certified-organic estate — 85 hectares of vineyard, 40 of olive grove, the rest crops and forest — roughly halfway between Florence and Arezzo. The 191 beds come with a minimum stay of two to three nights, which makes the booking a welcome dinner, a wedding day and a farewell lunch rather than one reception.

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No. VIIVignamaggio

No. VII

Vignamaggio

Vineyard estateGreve in ChiantiUp to 150 in the Salone dei Banchetti; 26 beds on the estate

A 400-hectare estate of vineyard, garden and woodland above Greve in Chianti, documented as a wine property since 1404, built around a Renaissance villa that belonged to the Gherardini — the Florentine family Lisa del Giocondo was born into, though not, as the story usually goes, the house she was born in. Kenneth Branagh shot Much Ado About Nothing here across eight weeks in 1992. Weddings run through Il Borgo di Vignamaggio: ceremonies on the pergola terrace or in the formal gardens, dinner in the square, and the Salone dei Banchetti or La Serra holding 150 when it rains. Twenty-six beds sit in the villa and two houses beside it, with another 27 in farmhouses nearby, so the guest ceiling moves with how many buildings you take.

Gherardini villa in working Chianti vineyards

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Villa Cetinale — wedding venue in Tuscany, Italy

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No. VIII

Villa Cetinale

Baroque villaSovicille, west of SienaUp to 100 guests; 48 sleeping across four houses

Fabio Chigi began the house in the 1650s and abandoned it when he became Pope Alexander VII; his nephew Cardinal Flavio Chigi inherited it and had Carlo Fontana remake it in Roman Baroque in 1680. The gardens are the reason people come — box parterres, a colossal Hercules on the axis, and a stone stairway climbing through woodland to a hermitage on the ridge above — and Edith Wharton illustrated them and printed their plan in Italian Villas and Their Gardens in 1904. Hire is exclusive-use and capped at 100 guests, with 48 sleeping between the villa and three further houses; the 17th-century church of Sant'Eustachio takes 30 for a blessing. Twelve kilometres west of Siena, it stays a private house rather than a hotel.

Baroque gardens, exclusive-use house

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La Foce — wedding venue in Tuscany, Italy

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No. IX

La Foce

Country house and historic gardenChianciano Terme, Val d'OrciaVilla Origo sleeps 24 in 12 bedrooms; event numbers on ask

Antonio and Iris Origo bought this fifteenth-century Via Francigena waystation in 1924 and set Cecil Pinsent to work on the gardens for the next fifteen years: a sequence of geometric rooms enclosed in box hedging that opens, at the last terrace, onto Monte Amiata and the cypress-lined switchback road the Origos planted below. Weddings use the villa and its terraces, with farmhouses and apartments scattered across the estate absorbing the rest of the party; Villa Origo alone sleeps 24 in twelve en-suite bedrooms. The view does the work here, so most couples deliberately under-decorate.

Cecil Pinsent's garden over the Val d'Orcia

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No. XHotel Il Pellicano

No. X

Hotel Il Pellicano

Cliffside coastal hotelPorto Ercole, Monte ArgentarioUp to 120 guests; full buyout of all 50 rooms

Out on the Argentario peninsula, Il Pellicano steps down a cliff to a private rocky cove, with a heated seawater pool, cottages through the gardens and a Michelin-starred kitchen. Ceremonies usually happen down at the water; dinner climbs back up to the terraces and gardens, and the piano bar carries the end of the night, to a ceiling of about 120. The hotel will only take a wedding as a full buyout of all 50 rooms, and it shuts for the winter — the 2026 season runs 2 April to 26 October, so a November or February date is simply not available.

Private cove on the Argentario cliffs

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A legally binding civil ceremony has to be performed by an Italian registrar in a room the local comune has authorised, so the villa or castle you book is generally the party rather than the paperwork — and slots in the best civic rooms are tightly rationed, with Palazzo Vecchio's Sala Rossa limited to Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings plus one Saturday afternoon a month. Peak Saturdays between May and September go 12 to 18 months out at the named estates, and the strong local florists, caterers and celebrants go with them. Factor in the driving: most estates sit 30 to 60 minutes from the nearest town down unlit gravel roads with no taxi coverage, and the Val d'Orcia and Maremma venues are a further 90 minutes to two hours beyond Florence or Pisa airport, so guest coaches are a fixed budget line.

When to marry — May, June and the stretch from mid-September into early October are the reliable months, with days around 18–25°C and the countryside still green, well clear of the 35°C-plus midday heat that makes July and August ceremonies hard on guests in formalwear.
What it costs — Exclusive-use venue hire in Tuscany generally runs €8,000 to €25,000 with catering charged separately at roughly €150 to €200 a head, which puts an all-in budget for 50 to 80 guests somewhere between €60,000 and €110,000 — though the headline 'from' price at a buyout property covers only the building, and multi-night whole-estate hires start several times higher.

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Questions

Marrying in Tuscany: your questions.

Can we legally marry in Tuscany if neither of us is Italian?

Yes. Italy allows foreign couples to marry legally without holding a separate civil ceremony at home first — you do not need to be married in your own country beforehand. You will need a nulla osta, a declaration that there is no impediment to the marriage, issued by your own country's consulate in Italy rather than by an office back home, and some comuni additionally require an atto notorio sworn before an Italian court. Requirements differ sharply by nationality, and Canadian citizens need an alternative route because Canada does not issue a nulla osta at all, so check with your consulate 6 to 9 months out.

What does a wedding in Tuscany actually cost?

Exclusive-use venue hire for a villa or estate generally sits between €8,000 and €25,000, and catering is quoted per head — budget roughly €150 to €200 a person for a good plated dinner, more where a starred kitchen is involved. Planners report all-in totals of around €40,000 to €60,000 for 20 to 40 guests and €60,000 to €110,000 for 50 to 80. Properties that require a full buyout, such as Hotel Il Pellicano, start well above that, because you are renting an entire hotel for several nights rather than a room for an evening.

How far in advance do we need to book, and what really sets the guest limit?

Twelve to eighteen months is standard for a May-to-September date at a named venue, and closer to twenty months is safer for a Saturday in June or September. The binding constraint is usually beds rather than seats: Borgo Santo Pietro seats about 140 outdoors but has only 22 suites sleeping 48, and Villa Cetinale caps at roughly 100 guests with 48 sleeping on the estate. Work out where the remaining guests will stay, and how they will get back there at 1am, before you sign anything.

When is the best time of year, and how do guests actually get to these venues?

May, June, and late September into early October give days around 18–25°C with the countryside still green; July and August regularly pass 35°C, which pushes ceremonies to after 18:00 and makes the middle of the day unusable. Most guests fly into Florence or Pisa, but the Val d'Orcia and Maremma properties are another 90 minutes to two hours on from there, and rural estates typically sit at the end of unlit gravel roads with no taxi coverage — plan coach transfers and block-book a hotel in the nearest town. Coastal venues such as Il Pellicano shut entirely over winter, so a November or February date rules them out.

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Researched and last reviewed 2026-08-16. We have no commercial relationship with any venue listed.

Planning a wedding in Tuscany

When to marry — May, June and the stretch from mid-September into early October are the reliable months, with days around 18–25°C and the countryside still green, well clear of the 35°C-plus midday heat that makes July and August ceremonies hard on guests in formalwear.

What it costs — Exclusive-use venue hire in Tuscany generally runs €8,000 to €25,000 with catering charged separately at roughly €150 to €200 a head, which puts an all-in budget for 50 to 80 guests somewhere between €60,000 and €110,000 — though the headline 'from' price at a buyout property covers only the building, and multi-night whole-estate hires start several times higher.