Michelin Keys 2026 Tuscany beyond Florence: all 30, from Chianti to the coast

Castelfalfi, a 2,700-acre estate with 146 rooms, is the largest of the 30 Tuscan Key hotels outside Florence. MICHELIN’s 2026 list puts two of the 30 at Three Keys, six at Two and 22 at One, from the beaches of Versilia to the hills of the Valdichiana. The same area had 29 Key hotels in 2025, and all 29 keep their tier; the one new name is Certosa di Maggiano, a 14th-century Carthusian monastery on the edge of Siena, at One Key. Borgo Santo Pietro, at Chiusdino, and Castiglion del Bosco, A Rosewood Hotel, at Montalcino, hold the two Three-Key places. Thirteen of the 30 are in the province of Siena. The tiers come from MICHELIN’s complete list of the Italian Keys, published in Italian on 18 September, and the counts by area are ours. The hotels of Florence and Fiesole are in our Florence list.

Two at Three Keys, six at Two, 22 at One: the Tuscan lines

Tiers and towns are as MICHELIN prints them, and room counts are those on each hotel’s MICHELIN page.

Together the 30 have 1,073 rooms, by our count. Eleven have fewer than 20. Montalcino, with three, has more Key hotels than any other Tuscan town outside Florence. Tuscany as a whole, Florence included, has 45 in 2026. No other Italian region has as many.

Chianti: Borgo San Felice, Castel Monastero and Castello del Nero

Chianti has three. Two are in Castelnuovo Berardenga. Borgo San Felice Resort, at Località San Felice, holds Two Keys and occupies a whole village, with wine cellars, cooking classes, a spa, a heated pool, tennis and bocce. “This is the Borgo San Felice; this, more generally, is why people never get tired of going to Tuscany”, the inspectors write. Its page lists 63 rooms. In the same municipality, Castel Monastero has 70. “Castel Monastero began life as an eleventh-century village”, MICHELIN notes. “Then it became a monastery, complete with an incredible Chianti cellar”. It opens from the end of March through December, the latest closing date on the list.

COMO Castello del Nero, at Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, is “Surrounded by world-famous vineyards and within easy day-trip distance of both Florence and Siena”. It has 50 rooms. The “Higher-end suites with frescoed walls and fireplaces provide some additional regional charm”, and the spa is a COMO Shambhala Retreat. La Torre, the restaurant, holds a MICHELIN Star in the current guide. The 2027 guide for Italy will be unveiled in Piacenza on 12 November, as in our calendar of the ceremonies.

The Val d’Orcia and Montalcino, from Castiglion del Bosco to Casa Newton

“This place is a big deal”, MICHELIN says of Castiglion del Bosco, the Three-Key estate outside Montalcino. “Wine is actively produced here and much of the property is comprised of preserved lands for grape growing or forests”, the page goes on. It has 42 rooms and its own helipad. Campo del Drago, the restaurant, holds two MICHELIN Stars in the current guide. The hotel was No. 62 in the World’s 50 Best Hotels extended list, as in our report on the 51 to 100 list.

Montalcino has two more. At Castello Banfi – Il Borgo, a One-Key hotel, “the castello is the headquarters of the working wine estate”. A 13th-century wing holds a museum of glass. The 14 rooms open from March to November, and La Sala dei Grappoli, its dinner restaurant, holds a Star in the current guide. Villa Le Prata – Residenza del Vescovo is a 19th-century hunting lodge with eight rooms. It is “part of a working wine estate, and the Brunello di Montalcino flows freely”, in the inspectors’ words.

Further south, Monteverdi Tuscany holds Two Keys at Castiglioncello del Trinoro, “a medieval village perched on a hilltop in Tuscany’s Val d’Orcia”. The Rome-based architect Ilaria Miani turned its old houses into a hotel of 23 rooms, and breakfast is served at Zita, “designed by Foster + Partners”. At Pienza, Casa Newton “looks like a textbook Tuscan fantasy”, MICHELIN says, but inside it is mid-century modern, with 11 rooms, two farm-to-table restaurants and its own winery. Precise Tale Poggio Alla Sala, outside Montepulciano, is the largest of this group, with 71 rooms and four pools. Its designers “took inspiration from the Silk Routes that once connected Italy to the far East”.

Versilia, the Maremma shore and Argentario: eight by the sea

The coast has eight of the 30. Only one holds Two Keys. The Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte, on Piazza Giacomo Puccini in Viareggio, has 80 rooms behind “its ornate 1920s façade rising in all its splendor”. The beach “is an enticingly short walk from the front door”. Il Piccolo Principe, its restaurant, holds two MICHELIN Stars in the current guide.

Forte dei Marmi has two One-Key hotels. Pensione America, on Via Colombo, is “an adults-only retreat with just 17 rooms”, and its guests have “first-row access at a nearby beach club”. The Principe Forte dei Marmi has 28 rooms and two pools. Its restaurant, Lux Lucis, holds a Star in the current guide, as in our Forte dei Marmi restaurant guide. Inland, at Capezzano Pianore in the municipality of Camaiore, Locanda al Colle is “little more than a guesthouse in a village in coastal Tuscany”, with no television and a heated pool. It opens “from the end of March to the beginning of November”.

The other four are in the Maremma and on the Argentario. L’Andana, at Castiglione della Pescaia, occupies Tenuta La Badiola, which “was once the summer residence of the Grand Duke Leopold II”. There, “the main culinary event is La Trattoria Enrico Bartolini, set in the estate’s old granary”. It opens from April through October, so it closes at the end of October. Locanda Rossa, at Capalbio, where Tuscany meets Lazio, has 37 rooms in a farmhouse and its modern extension. It opens from April through November. Porto Ercole has two. Il Pellicano, at Località Sbarcatello, has 31 rooms, and “Winding pathways negotiate terraced gardens all the way down to the private beach”. La ROQQA, on Via Panoramica, has 50 rooms “Perched above the harbor with views across the bay”.

Siena, Chiusdino, Cortona and the Valdarno: the other 13

The second Three-Key estate is Borgo Santo Pietro, at Chiusdino, south-west of Siena. “In a manner of speaking, Borgo Santo Pietro could be considered a design hotel”, MICHELIN writes. Its antiques were gathered from all over Italy, like many of its building materials, and it has 22 rooms, a stone-clad spa and Saporium, a restaurant with a Star in the current guide. Castello di Casole, A Belmond Hotel, holds Two Keys at Casole d’Elsa, “20 minutes by car from Siena city center”. Besides the castle, it has “a pair of villas and seven secluded farmhouses”. It opens from mid-March through October.

Certosa di Maggiano is the newcomer. It has 22 rooms on Strada di Certosa. “Today, the rooms run maximalist: patterned wallpaper, bold tiling, mismatched prints”, the inspectors write, set against original frescoes and vaulted ceilings. “The pool terrace is pink and archway-framed”, and “Siena’s Palio is on the doorstep”. In 2026 it is the only Key hotel with a Siena address.

The Valdichiana and Cortona add four. Lupaia, at Torrita di Siena, has 11 rooms in “five painstakingly renovated historical structures”, and its four-course dinner is “made out of produce from the hotel’s own organic garden”. It closes from December to mid-March. Siena House, in the same municipality, is the smallest. It is a guest house in scale. “What’s on offer here is a more casual, more personal form of hospitality”, MICHELIN writes. Monastero di Cortona was “restored and transformed into a luxury boutique hotel in 2019”, and the spa’s indoor pool is “framed by old stone archways”. Villa Fontelunga, printed under Arezzo, stands at Foiano della Chiana, “a small villa (just 9 rooms) that feels more like a guest house than a hotel”. It has no restaurant. It asks for a two-night minimum and opens from March through November.

The Valdarno and the Valdelsa hold two Two-Key estates and one at One Key. Il Borro, at San Giustino Valdarno, is a borgo with villas and farmhouses a short distance outside it. Its page lists 57 rooms. Its text is candid about the count: “There doesn’t seem to be a consensus on the exact number of rooms here”. Castelfalfi, at Montaione, puts some of its rooms in “the Tabaccaia, the old tobacco warehouse”. Villa Petriolo, at Cerreto Guidi, is a working farm “where Renaissance architecture meets a deep commitment to the land”, with three restaurants.

The inland Maremma has two. Conti di San Bonifacio, at Gavorrano, is a renovated farmhouse on a hill, and “The wine and olive oil made here have a following far beyond the hotel’s walls”. Castello di Vicarello, at Cinigiano, is “an authentic 12th-century castle, converted into a charming country house boutique”, with 11 rooms, cooking lessons and wine tastings. Last comes the Valdinievole, in the province of Pistoia. At Buggiano Castello, La Monastica Resort & Spa occupies “The 16th-century Monastery of Santa Scolastica”. The convent “reopened as La Monastica Resort & Spa in 2024”, and its old chapel is now the restaurant.

The Luxury.it perspective

Outside Florence, Tuscany’s Keys follow the vineyards and the old walls. Five of the 30 make their own wine, by MICHELIN’s descriptions, and four live in former monasteries, from the Certosa on the edge of Siena to the convent at Buggiano Castello. The scale runs from Castelfalfi’s 146 rooms to houses of a dozen or fewer. The province of Siena holds 13 of the 30, both Three-Key estates among them, which makes the city a natural base for Chianti, Montalcino and the Val d’Orcia. The calendar matters as much as the map. Only eight of the 30 pages give opening dates, and two of those hotels close at the end of October. For most of the coast and the countryside, this is a list for 2027.

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