L’Albereta Relais & Chateaux

An enchanting relais in Franciacorta that rises among rolling hills and vineyards, L’Albereta invites its guests to live an unforgettable experience, because the art of hospitality means here the ability to guarantee absolute and sublime pleasure of the senses.

Located in the strategic location in Lombardy, just a few kilometres away from the romantic Lake Iseo, L’Albereta is the ideal starting point for customized itineraries: from here, you can reach in a short time the main art cities of northern Italy such as Milan, Bergamo, Verona and Venice.

You can savor the delights of the palate in the gastronomic restaurant Leonefelice Vista Lago, whose terrace opens the view of Lake Iseo, and enjoy award-winning pizzas accompanied by excellent wines at La Filiale.

If you want to experience a perfect remise-en-forme, the Espace Chenot Health Wellness Spa is the ideal place to be , thanks to its 2,000 square meters of pure vitality and wellness.

With its wonderful park, dotted with contemporary art sculptures, and its five elegant rooms, with modular volumes, L’Albereta relais in Franciacorta is also the ideal location for unforgettable meetings and events.

ROOMS & SUITES
The 38 rooms of L’Albereta are sophisticated secrets revealing themselves each time that a Guest crosses the threshold, unveiling precious interiors, where every detail makes sense and gain value bonding with other decorative elements, in a continuous play of cross-references.

Each room of this Lake Iseo accommodation is different from the other and is the result of a clever combination of love for beauty and attention to maximum comfort.

The suites of L’Albereta are 19, each one with its own history, forged by the harmonious silences of nature that envelops these enchanting places of Franciacorta, worthy of one of the best luxury hotels in Italy, giving Guests unique moments that will remain forever in memory.

BELLAVISTA SUITE
A unique, exclusive Grand Suite, on the top floor of the nineteenth century villa in the Bellavista Tower, in our luxury resort in Italy, with an enchanting view of the vineyards of Franciacorta, Lake Iseo and the Alps. Furnished with fine period furniture and rich textiles. Two balconies and a double bathroom with large hydro-massage tub.

CONTADI DELUXE SUITE
Perfect for a family. Each Contadi Deluxe Suite of our relais in Franciacorta is composed of two adjoining bedrooms located on two floors, connected by inside stairs.

Furnished with refined elegance and positioned on the last two floors of the Contadi Tower, from where an evocative panorama of the Vigna Leone, L’Albereta’s private vineyard, can be enjoyed. They are fitted with a double bathroom with hydro-massage tub and shower.

CABRIOLET SUITE
A unique, very special bedroom with a romantic surprise: at the touch of a button the roof opens to reveal the sky. The balcony faces the surrounding vineyards and Lake Iseo. Marble master bathroom with hydro-massage tub and multifunctional shower complete the picture of your fabulous romantic holidays in Italy.

SUPERIOR ROOMS
Light-filled rooms, all have private balconies, immersed in the peace of the park in our hotel near Brescia for your Italian luxury holidays.

Satin and damask in warm golden tones are used for the furnishing textiles and on the walls there are delicate frescoes and decorations. Bathroom with tub, in some hydro-massage tub, and the possibility of French style communicating bedrooms.

CLASSIC ROOMS
Elegant rooms enriched with sought after furnishings. Among their features, everyone is different from each other. One has balcony, another an attic, another has a small entrance hall. Precious marble bathrooms with shower. You can find all this in our magnificent hotel in Franciacorta.

DINING
Founded as a haven dedicated to the art of living and the pleasure of conviviality, L’Albereta, still offers some of the best restaurants in Brescia and is a genuine temple of good taste thanks to its new restaurant Leonfelice Vista Lago and its stunning terrace overlooking the Lake Iseo.

For those that wish to follow a strict calorie-controlled diet there is the Ristorante Benessere, where you can enjoy food that makes no compromises in terms of flavor. Flavors that will delight even the most demanding of palates.

The Greeneige Lounge, with its warm, homely atmosphere, is the perfect place to relax in total privacy: to sip a nightcap detox Chenot, to read a good book, or to contemplate the landscape of the Franciacorta on one of its delightful terraces.

LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO
Welcomed in the most ancient rooms of this XIX villa, with beautiful frescos and Latin motti about the art of hospitality, the LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO, our restaurant with view of Lake Iseo, is the vibrant heart of the hotel.

Perfect from the breakfast to the after dinner, it proposes delicious snacks all day long and a special selection of typical Italian and regional dishes for lunch and dinner, such as Tonnarelli pasta with pecorino cheese and black pepper sauce and Milanese veal chop with fresh lettuce.

Welcoming is a virtue that is expressed in the long tradition of hospitality that Italians possess in an innate way. The new LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO intends to explore and develop this inclination, recounting the spirit of the resort through local dishes prepared with great technique.

The LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO revolution is complemented by a warm and elegant environment, rethought by “MORE design studio” by Valentina Moretti to offer the best of L’Albereta style hospitality, which has always fascinated national and international clients.

L’Albereta has always been a place of excellence that brings together the most news of gastronomic world can offer: hence the idea of a cuisine of great taste, in which the most genuine and original Italian tradition is made available with elegance natural that is inherent in this corner of Franciacorta.

The menu of the new LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO is guided by the hand of the chef Fabio Abbattista, who knew how to ferry the cuisine of L’Albereta in the post Gualtiero Marchesi.

In the dishes, the best comes from the territory to bring good, accessible and quality products to the table. The raw materials come mostly from Franciacorta, are purchased in small quantities and frequently, to always guarantee freshness and seasonality.

Dedication, passion, care are the keywords to bring the best Italian style to the stage. This is the goal of Martino De Rosa and atCarmen, who with LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO intend to offer a new way of looking at the world of catering: excellent hospitality and great Italian dishes, made with excellent raw materials that come from the area where you are located to operate.

“We have a great enthusiasm – concludes De Rosa – and we are convinced that the construction of a new concept of cuisine and hospitality like that of LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO will take us far: let’s start from L’Albereta, which has always been a place able to anticipate the times, and we turn to the whole world.

The project arrives at the right time: in these years, from the post Gualtiero Marchesi to the creation of La Filiale, we have been able to put together the necessary experience so that the identity of atCarmen and the LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO brand is recognized and appreciated in Italy and abroad».

A special and unforgettable experience, dedicated to those who wish to discover what really happens behind the scenes of a restaurant considered among the most important examples of Italian wine and food scenario, a private table in the vibrant hearth of the kitchen of LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO, alongside the Chef Fabio Abbattista.

To choose to dine at the Chef’s Table means to taste a sensorial experience trough a 4 courses menu created for you by The Chef Fabio Abbattista and while seeing, from first row, the brigade going fervently about their work.

During this experience, you will be accompanied with stories about the specific features of each small producer he selected the secrets of each recipe and the inspiration and story held in each dish.

RISTORANTE BENESSERE
Reserved for guests enjoying treatments at the Espace Chenot Health Wellness SPA, in our resort in Northern Italy, Ristorante Benessere – Wellness Reastaurant – offers a range of recipes created by Dominque Chenot and perfected by her and a team of experts, designed to offer both balance and flavour.

Following a balanced diet, essential for keeping us healthy as well as in excellent shape, does not necessarily mean making sacrifices, either in terms of aesthetics or flavour.

Ristorante Benessere at L’Albereta is living proof of this. In this finely furnished dining room, which stretches out with its magnificent bow window among the trees and flowers of L’Albereta’s park, as if seeking to become at one with the surrounding nature, guests are seduced every single day by dishes that delight both the eyes and the palate.

Rather than a rule, it therefore becomes a pleasure following the personalized Chenot diet drawn up by expert dieticians, an essential adjunct to Chenot’s treatments that you will have the pleasure to experience in our resort in Northern Italy.

GREENEIGE LOUNGE
The Greeneige Lounge of L’Albereta Hotel is a cozy and welcoming living room enjoyable at any time of the day to relax on comfortable sofas and taste the best Henri Chenot natural detox teas. Natural nuances, from turtledove to beige to ancient rose, velvety materials, wrap-around volumes.

Every corner is a small world itself, where to find the right atmosphere for a romantic encounter or to meet with friends for a sincere conversation. In the large library, you can find all kinds of texts, like narrative, poetry, architecture, art, and much more. There is a fireplace for cold winter evenings.

LA FILIALE
The kiosk La Filiale offers a unique dining experience that combines a menu entirely dedicated to Franco Pepe’s pizzas with outstanding wines from Franciacorta and beyond.

Perfect from the aperitif onwards, La Filiale is a young, informal meeting place where starting out the evening enjoying a mythical “pizza a libretto” accompanied by a glass of wine or a cocktail.

The journey continues on the first floor, in the stained-glass dining space immersed in the greenery, where Guests enjoy Franco Pepe-style pizzas, with their characteristic light, hand-made dough and ingredients that tell stories worth discovering.

EVENTS
Immersed among the gentle vine-covered hills of Franciacorta and surrounded by a verdant centuries-old park in the heart of Lombardy, here you will find one of the best hotels in Northern Italy.

Just a few dozen kilometres from Brescia and Bergamo, and less than an hour’s drive from Milan and the other major cities in Northern Italy, such as Verona and Venice, L’Albereta is the ideal location for business meetings and stylish receptions.

Refined elegance and impeccable service are guaranteed, enriched with a range of culinary delights, that will satisfy even the most demanding of palates. Different areas that can be customised according to any requirement, are modular and equipped with cutting-edge technology and Wi-Fi.

They offer the perfect context for all kinds of event or occasion: business meetings, weddings and important ceremonies, parties, concerts, fashion shows, exhibitions and showrooms.

WEDDINGS
Getting married in Italy is easier than you believe. In a landscape of such charm, the most beautiful day of your life is sure to be even more unforgettable thanks to a reception in grand style set up in a fancy wedding venue: getting married in Italy is a dream come true at L’Albereta.

L’Albereta, with its elegant halls and charming gardens, will do the rest: all of it will be “decked out” to stage the story and wishes of the bride and groom, to tell a little more about their romance.

The guests will enjoy the refined hospitality of the rooms and suites of L’Albereta, while the newlyweds will have their wedding night in a truly magical atmosphere, with a staff dedicated to fulfill their every wish.

Our chef Fabio Abbattista will be glad to create a personalized menu that portrays – through the gastronomic choices, tastes, passions… and the chemistry, unique and special – that joins the two future spouses.

PARTIES
In life there are special occasions that are remembered forever: a birthday, a christening, an anniversary or any other event that marks an important step in our history. They are moments that remain etched in your memory forever and, for that reason, you want every detail to be perfect, just as you dreamed it would be.

L’Albereta is the ideal setting for these moments. A unique location in an elegant resort in Italy for the most unforgettable parties.

A highly specialized staff will assist you during all the organization phases with discretion and competence, suggesting the best solutions for every need: from the floral arrangements to the wine and food proposals of our chef Fabio Abbattista, from the details of the table setting to the music selection which will be the signature of your event.

MEETINGS
L’Albereta with its refined interiors and the secluded corners of its gardens in the wonderful setting of Franciacorta, is the perfect place for business meetings, congresses and gatherings, outside the box, in a combination of efficiency, style and well-being.

Here you will not find yourself in frigid somber halls for stiff conventions, but spaces of great elegance, and at the same time comfortable, surrounded by greenery, created to be functional and, above all, pleasant to experience.

SPA CHENOT ESPACE
“I always refused to create another Espace anywhere other than in Merano. Until the day when two worlds met – Spazio Chenot and Terra Moretti – at L’Albereta. I was seduced by the creativity, the desire to grow, to improve, and to discover new horizons; but also by the simplicity, the ability to listen other people that characterize the Moretti family.

My wife, Dominique, and I, decided to create a new way of pampering one self, in order to achieve true natural beauty, enabling people to rediscover harmony without gimmicks, giving new light”. -Henri Chenot-

L’Albereta is listed among the best luxury Spa Hotels in Italy: Chenot Espace Health Wellness SPA is a SPA in Franciacorta that best represents the ideal of absolute well-being, a space exclusively dedicated to self-care, according to a rigorous method strongly rooted in the principles of medicine, capable of bring the body back to the maximum psychophysical form.

Chenot Espace is one of the two exclusive medical & wellness SPA signed by Chenot in Italy and has a highly qualified team of over 30 professionals, including Doctors, Therapists, Dietitians, Therapist Assistants, Osteopaths, Beauticians and of course, Reception Managers and Receptionists.

Designed by Ettore Mocchetti, Architect and AD Italia Director, Chenot Espace expresses in its architecture – made of balance among full and empty spaces, among light, shadows and water games – the same search for harmony that animates its being.

In this SPA in Franciacorta, natural light is plowed to wrap the space that develops on an area of ​​2,000 square meters, divided into two levels: the first one start with a reception area favored by soft architectural volumes and curved lines; an area dedicated to medical departments follows, with areas dedicated to energy tests and dietary evaluations.

In the Herbal Tea Area, you can always find a different selection of herbal teas and infusions with drainage and antioxidant properties. From here, you get to private cabins for treatments: maximum privacy and direct contact with nature blend together to maximize the benefits of therapies.

The area on the ground floor is dedicated to hydro-treatments and aqua-fitness. A vast outdoor and indoor swimming pool dominate the space of the Chenot Espace SPA; next to which there is a sauna and a steam bath with aromatherapy along with a large gym equipped with the latest generation of Technogym machines.

Last but not least, in the most intimate heart of this evocative path, conceived and constructed according to the Chenot method, a reserved space, with an enveloping circular shape, is the realm of hydrotherapy, mud applications and hydro-jets.

THE CHENOT METHOD 
The Chenot Espace Health Wellness SPA at L’Albereta is a place of absolute wellbeing, where you can pamper yourself thoroughly. Even in its architecture, featuring a balance of full and empty spaces, with light and shade and water games, the Chenot Espace expresses the same search for harmony that animates its raison d’être.

Chenot has developed a unique method resulting from over forty years in the business. Treatments designed to restore the body to its peak mental and physical wellbeing, using exclusive techniques for detoxinating and reactivating the energy channels and organic functions, tailored to meet the needs of each individual client.

This exclusive method is based on aesthetic medicine, a scientific discipline that combines the principles of Chinese medicine and the more evolved techniques used in western medicine, which requires an understanding of how the vital resources of the human body evolve at various stages of life.

WELLBEING PROGRAMMES BY CHENOT
After more than a decade of international success in the field of health, wellness and beauty, the Chenot Espace at L’Albereta, has introduced new programmes and services designed by Chenot that promote health, vitality and equilibrium within the body and mind.

Introducing new state-of-the-art diagnostics, we adopt a multidisciplinary approach to our work. We focus on a holistic and systemic screening method that aims to identify the current level of health and its potential within each individual.

In a completely redesigned setting, our guests can experience powerful, effective and personalised treatments that enable the body and mind to reach their optimum level, achieving an enduring long lasting effect whilst promoting optimal health, wellness and beauty.

DAY SPA
The Chenot Espace has come up with a day spa offer for those who lack the time to get away for several days or who feel the need to escape from the frenetic pace of daily life and relax in total wellbeing.

The program features a series of individualized treatments covering a whole day in Franciacorta, the purpose being to purify, prepare, revitalize and regenerate the body as a whole. Treat yourself to a whole day devoted entirely to pampering yourself.

The team of experts at Chenot Espace will show you how, in a single day, you can rediscover the pleasure of renewed mental and physical equilibrium with a carefree mind and stress-free body.

A break providing intense wellbeing and sublime pleasure. Purified and remodelled, your body will be resplendent, as will your soul, delighted to have rediscovered itself and reflecting pure joy.

ACTIVITIES
Much of the success of an event or business meeting depends on the experiences and emotions that precede or follow it: to ensure that people look back on it fondly, it is imperative that guests are also stimulated emotionally, that the experience takes their breath away.

L’Albereta is the perfect setting for business meetings and exclusive events, also because of the additional activities and experiences it offers: from the gourmet restaurant LEONEFELICE VISTA LAGO and its stunning terrace over the Lake Iseo; to the exclusive wellness & medical SPA, the Espace Chenot Health Wellness Spa, where you can enjoy special ‘remise-en-forme’ treatments tailored to your specific requirements.

Alternatively, you can simply enjoy one of the SPA’s numerous facilities or activities: the swimming-pool with 4 types of hydromassage, pool treadmill and hydrobike, sauna and Turkish bath, fully-equipped gym and personal trainers.

The numerous services offered by L’Albereta offer a wide range of possibilities for those that wish to organise lively and fun team-building activities.

LAKE ISEO
But the opportunities are not confined to the hotel itself. Art lovers can treat themselves to a visit of the Sculpture Park, an open-air trail of modern art consisting of thirteen sculptures that winds through the vineyard-clad hills around the hotel as far as the Bellavista and Contadi Castaldi wineries.

At these cellars, owned by the Moretti Group and located just a stone’s throw from L’Albereta, it is possible to organise tastings, guided tours and full-immersion courses, held by expert oenologists, for learning more about wine.

Golfers will be spoilt for choice with numerous high-profile courses in the vicinity of L’Albereta, some of which offering 27-hole rounds. And that’s not all: Franciacorta offers a vast choice of all kinds of activity.

From excursions in the nature reserves of Torbiere del Sebino, one of the most important bird-watching paradises, to cruises in a private boat to Montisola, the largest lake island in Europe.

For the more sporty, Lake Iseo is a mine of opportunity, offering panoramic mountain bike trails, sailing, windsurfing, waterskiing and rowing. In the hills that surround the lake, meanwhile, there are plenty of riding schools offering horse lovers numerous stunning horse riding paths.

LA BOTTEGA DI MARIELLA
An intimate space with delicate tones, the name Mariella is dedicated to the extraordinary woman who has been at Vittorio Moretti’s side since ever. La Bottega di Mariella is a little treasure chest in which nestle and have fun discovering precious objects, the result of a search that spans everywhere.

Giovanna Tedeschi manages it with extraordinary expertise and passion by, a great fashion and luxury expert. A luxury that can be recognized in a thousand little details: the artisanship of a cashmere, the perfect cut of a dress, the many suggestions of a fragrance created by an extraordinary “Nose”, the uniqueness of a handmade jewel.

Her research does not know boundaries and collects the best that the world can offer in this secret corner of L’Albereta.

La Bottega di Mariella is the only space where you can directly buy Terra Moretti Group wines: Bellavista, Contadi Castaldi, Petra and Tenuta La Badiola. In addition, in La Bottega di Mariella, you will find an absolute rarity: the Vigna Leone, a chardonnay in purity of a rare elegance, produced by L’Albereta’s private vineyard and vinified by Bellavista. Unavailable elsewhere, because it is not on the market, is the sincerest souvenir of L’Albereta.

FRANCIACORTA WINE CELLARS
Franciacorta is a rural area with a lengthy history and traditions. Opinions as to the name’s origin differ widely, but the most convincing is that it derives from “francae curtes”, small medieval communities of Benedictine monks who obtained exemption from taxes and duties in exchange for teaching the local inhabitants how to grow vines.

Still marked by the original boundaries, Franciacorta is an area renowned for the production of sparkling wines of the same name, made according to the classic method, with slow fermentation in the bottle.

All wine bearing the name of Franciacorta wine is obtained from grapes grown in this area, which is delimited to the north by Lake Iseo, to the east by the foothills of the Rhaetian Alps that separate Valle Camonica from Val Trompia, to the west by the river Oglio and to the south by Mt. Orfano.

Franciacorta DOCG is Italy’s prime sparking wine, the country’s first and bottle-fermented Brut to obtain this recognition, in 1967. Franciacorta wine cellar production, though, is not limited to sparkling wine. The Terre di Franciacorta DOC status was awarded to still white and red wines in 1995.

THE FRANCIACORTA METHOD
The Franciacorta method was recognized in 2003 by the European Community as the maximum expression of excellence and quality.

Various combinations of Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Noir grapes are used to make the wine, which ferments slowly in the bottles in contact with the yeasts for at least 24 months for non-vintage and at least 30 months for vintage Franciacorta.

There is nowhere in Italy quite like Franciacorta, where wine makers have found just the right balance between modern technology, development, experimentation and tradition, bringing the area worldwide renown.

One of the best ways to discover what this area has to offer is to take time off to visit some of the numerous wineries to be found in Franciacorta. Many are in ancient villas and palaces still steeped in the fascination of the past. Other more recent ones blend in with their natural surroundings of vineyards and gardens.

Perfect examples are the Bellavista and Contadi Castaldi wineries belonging to the Terra Moretti Group. Bellavista wine comes from the a winery founded in 1977, lies on a verdant hill of the same name, that offers magnificent views of the ancient park, woodland and vineyards, stretching as far as Mt. Orfano, Lake Iseo and the pre-Alps.

The Contadi Castaldi winery was inaugurated in 1987. It occupies the former brick-kiln of Biasca di Adro, an interesting building erected in 1880 and later converted – using state-of-the-art preservation methods – into an ideal place for refining Franciacorta wines, where long arched underground passages, separated by thick walls, maintain the optimal temperature and moisture level.

PLAYING GOLF IN FRANCIACORTA
Golf is like a love affair: if you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. (Arnold Daly, actor) The game of golf in itself is a sort of journey, an opportunity for discovery and exploration, with courses winding their way through different settings, abounding in surprises, uncertainties and traps.

Each course you will find in Franciacorta Golf Club, with its 18 + 9 holes, concealed in verdant oases, surrounded by trees, lakes, streams, rises and bunkers, is an exciting adventure, to be enjoyed alone or in the company of friends or family.

What better way to enjoy a round of golf, an excuse for discovering new destinations and enjoying a good swing in some of the world’s loveliest locations? L’Albereta is undoubtedly the ideal destination in Franciacorta for golf enthusiasts!

It lies in the centre of a vast golfing area of major importance and extraordinary natural beauty, there being no less than 9 prestigious golf courses within a 100 kilometre range. Golf enthusiasts can come and take their pick.

Rooms: 57

Price: from 292 EUR per night

Source: www.albereta.it