Our ethos

A quiet atelier for a very particular kind of traveler.

Bottega Italia was founded in Firenze by a small circle of Italian planners, sommeliers, and former hoteliers who share a conviction — that the best travel in Italy is not sold, but composed. We work with a limited number of families each year, in every region of the country, and we do so with the same care our grandparents used to lay a table.

Villa on Lake Como at dusk
01

Curation, not catalog.

We do not sell what we have not seen. Every hotel we book, every table we reserve, every guide we introduce — we have vetted in person, and we would choose ourselves.

02

Access, quietly.

Twenty years of relationships open doors that stay closed to everyone else — cellars, chapels, private villas, ateliers. We ask for the extraordinary because our friends do it for us.

03

Precision, from A to Z.

One dedicated concierge, from your first email to your last transfer. Nothing improvised. Nothing left to chance. A single hand on every hour of your week.

A note on the way we work

"We plan a small number of journeys each year, so that each one may be composed with the attention it deserves. Membership is by introduction, and we prefer it that way."

— Chiara Rinaldi, Founding Partner
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A conversation is where every journey begins.