‘It originated as a Roman army camp, but the main villa was built in the 16th century by the Machiavelli family’
Set amid acres of vines and olives, with vistas over the rolling hills of Italy’s Chianti region, Castello Sonnino has a dreamlike quality.
It seems timeless and far removed from the turbulent currents of history. But as its chatelaine Baroness Caterina de Renzis Sonnino tells us, the property has quite a past.
During the Renaissance, it belonged to the Machiavelli family and later it was home to First World War statesman
