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Super-Tuscan.(Italy)(Brief article)

Vogue

| March 01, 2008 | Lacava, Stephanie | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: STEPHANIE LaCAVA editor: Sarah Brown

An idyllic 800-year-old village morphs into Italy's most luxurious new getaway.

Even if you weren't to the manor born, you can still have a villa in the family. Castiglion del Bosco, a private-membership estate spread across 4,500 acres in Tuscany's BRUNELLO WINEMAKING REGION, opens this spring. Developed by Massimo Ferragamo and Corky Severson, the property's 21 villas-- SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FARMHOUSES, nestled in the forest and vineyard--have been lovingly restored and outfitted with discreet twenty-first-century amenities (Wi-Fi, iPod docks). The land is dotted with reminders of its storied past--an ETRUSCAN ...

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