Castello di Oliveto rents its ground floor for company meetings, team-building days, private dinners and weddings, with frescoed salons, a loggia, a courtyard, an Italian garden and historic cellars. The castle is a fortified villa built in 1424 on a hill above Castelfiorentino, in the Florentine countryside between Florence, Siena and Pisa.
Seminars and company events
The castle has a dedicated offer for corporate events and incentives: meetings and work sessions in the ground-floor rooms, whose layout is adapted to each brief, followed by lunches, dinners or private parties. Team building draws on what the estate produces. Groups can book cooking classes in Tuscan cuisine and wine tastings, and a guided visit of the underground cellars can be added. In the warmer months, receptions move outside to the Italian garden. The staff help choose the caterer, music and decoration.
Weddings and receptions
For weddings, the whole ground floor is reserved for the couple: the frescoed salons, the loggia, the courtyard and the garden. The castle is registered as an official venue for civil marriages, so civil or symbolic ceremonies can be held in one of its rooms or in the garden. The Italian garden at the entrance, enclosed by the walls, is used for welcome drinks, and the loggia can be lit with lamps and candles for the evening. Weddings are offered in summer and in winter, and the banquet is served inside the castle.
Rooms and capacities
The site names the frescoed salons of the ground floor, the loggia, the inner courtyard, the Italian garden and the historic cellars. It does not publish capacities, so give your guest count and preferred layout when you ask for a proposal.
Accommodation
The Residence San Romano, about 3 km from the castle, offers ten apartments in a converted farmhouse and former hayloft, with one or two bedrooms each, an outdoor panoramic pool open in season and shared barbecue areas.
Catering
The castle does not describe an in-house kitchen for events. Its team helps you select the caterer and coordinates the service in the castle rooms.
History and setting
The Florentine Pucci family, allies of the Medici, built the castle in 1424, with moats, walls and towers among olive groves that gave it its name. Lorenzo il Magnifico and the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII stayed here, and Pope Paul III in 1541. Around 1850 the estate passed to the Guicciardini family. In July 1944 German forces made it their headquarters and found Uffizi paintings stored in the cellars; American troops under General Mark Clark followed. A 2015 study by Professor Massimo Ricci attributed the design to Filippo Brunelleschi.
Getting there
The address is Via di Monte Olivo 6, Castelfiorentino. Florence is just over 30 km away, Siena and Pisa about 40 km, San Gimignano 18 km. From Florence or Pisa take the Fi-Pi-Li expressway to Ginestra Fiorentina or Empoli. The final stretch is a gravel road.
