We Are Ardore
Meet our team
From the moment you contact us, you will be greeted with a friendly face and a team ready to make your experience easy and memorable. Your Personal Tuscany Stay Planner will help you identify the kind of stay you would like to have, help you with the travel details and introduce you to Your Personal Tuscany Experience Curator, who will not only help you with last minute changes to your itinerary, but who will meet you at the villa and be available to you throughout your stay.
The owners and creators of Villa Ardore are available to you in the event you have any questions that cannot be answered by the rest of the team.
Francesco Goracci
Your Personal Tuscany Experience Curator
It's unlikely that you've ever met someone as kind and open hearted--filled with ardor for the Tuscan lifestyle--as Francesco, or Franci (pronounced "Frahn-chee") to his friends.Franci will personally arrange any of our Villa Ardore experiences for you so that you can relax and enjoy your stay without having to do the planning yourself. As a native Tuscan who knows and loves the region like few others, he wants to be sure that your time at Villa Ardore is one that you will fondly remember forever, so he has vetted each of the experiences personally. If the experience that you want to have is simply to be left alone to enjoy Villa Ardore's beauty and privacy, that is fine too.
Franci is available to you as much or as little as you need, to ensure that you have your Tuscan experience.
Franci is available to you as much or as little as you need, to ensure that you have your Tuscan experience.
Sharon Damante
Your Personal Tuscany Stay Planner
Located in the United States, Sharon will help you to plan every stage of your stay at Villa Ardore, from reserving the Villa for you to ensuring the booking of any special Tuscan experiences that you want to have during your stay. As a talented cook herself and teacher of the fine art of cooking Italian cuisine, Sharon loves and is intimately familiar with Villa Ardore, its surrounding region, and the many experiences that can make your stay one that you will remember for a lifetime and want to return to again and again.
Christian Scali & Stephen Lewis
The Creators of Villa Ardore
Christian and Stephen bought and refurbished the 500-year-old farmhouse and barn into what Villa Ardore is today--a private property that exudes quiet, luxury but that still refers back to its roots as a Tuscan farmhouse.Christian is an Italian citizen with dual U.S. citizenship, and Stephen is a U.S. citizen with permanent Italian residence, and they wanted to create a property that has all of the amenities that they had become used to in their home that they live in during part of the year in Los Angeles without diminishing the farmhouse's Tuscan authenticity, or its connection to the Chianti region that they have fallen so in love with. They hope that while you are here, you will feel the love that they poured into the detailed restoration, and that you will come to think of Villa Ardore, as they do, as your Tuscan home.