GUESTBOOK

June 7th 2001
Hello Ginevra,
we have arrived back home...wonderful trip...met lots of nice people...enjoyed our stay with you...hope to see you again sometime...
Best regards,
Roger


June 11th 2001
Dear people of Castello di Bibbione,
after a wonderful week at a house at the castle, we went back with some wines of your property. We must give you our compliment about these wines. Especially the Chianti Classico of 1995 was absolutely fantastic.
Many thanks and we will be visiting you another time.
Marco Meijer

June 16th 2001
Dear Ginevra,
Patrick and I would like to thank you and your staff for the wonderful time we had during our stay at Castello di Bibbione while getting married. Our family enjoyed the stay in the apartments and villa very much. Maybe you will see some of them back in the future for a holiday.
Everything went fine and the setting was beautiful.
Thanks again for making our days perfect!
Kind regards,
Patricia and Patrick Neuwirth-Kanis
The Netherlands


June 23rd 2001
Dear Ginevra Veronica and I are grateful for your help in organizing our wedding. We and our friends enjoyed a magical week here at Castello di Bibbione, and we will all remember it forever. this is truly among the most lovely places on earth.
All the best,
Aaron

October 2001
Dear Ginevra and everyone,
Thank you so much for providing the perfect setting for our wedding. Everything was so beautiful and enchanting. We could never have hoped for anything so wonderful. You live and work in a fairy tale land, and we were so happy to have our fairy tale begin here with all of you.
Kevin and Mary-Catherine Carter


October 6th 2001
This has been one of the best weeks of our lives. Absolutely awesome!
Thank you,
Dot and Ernest Kenny

October 6th 2001
Thank you for making our daughter's wedding so special. We have had a wonderful visit.
Allen and May Kenny


2001
A great experience made more wonderful by your accommodations.
Thanks,
Mik and Sheryl Kessler

October 2001
Dear Ginevra,
we greatly appreciated your assistance and Caterina's, and we enjoyed our stay at Bibbione and our time in Chianti, immensely. We send our best to both of you and our best wishes for good health and happiness.
Sincerely,
Dan and Ruth Merritt
Beverly Hills, California, USA

2002
Dear Antonella,
Thank you for your hospitality and beautiful grounds and apartments. May the name Machiavelli go on for ever!
Jun and Nicole

March 9 2002
Dear Katarina, Genevra and Mrs. Antonella,
thank you for an experience we will never forget! We are so sorry we have to leave but we are looking forward to our next visit.
Thank you so much!!
Cheryl and Bill Scanlan


May 31 2002
Keep the light on for our return. The gardens are wonderful, the view unforgettable! Our Tuscan Home will be greatly missed.
Katarina, Susanna, Betty

June 6 2002
Thank you for our most memorable stay in this beautiful part of the world! Your castle will be recognized in our forthcoming children's books about life in medieval castles in Italy. We visited more places places while in Italy but the most beautiful of all is the castle and the landscape.
Patricia
Arizona, USA


June 2002
Dear Ginevra,
our stay at the castle was truly wonderful! As well as providing information for our forthcoming children's book, you also offered relaxation and beauty all around. Our apartment was comfortable, you staff was pleasant and helpful. I look forward to returning one day! Please convey my greetings to your mother ... a most gracious woman. Also hello to the rest of the staff...especially Milena.
Thank you for our very memorable week there. With sincerity and love,
Patricia Rhoads
Arizona, USA

June 14 2002
Dear Ginevra and Caterina,
thank you for the wonderful stay at Castello di Bibbione. Our apartment, la Quercia, was perfect with excellent view of the Tuscan countryside. Your beautiful accommodation was truly a treat coupled with your warm hospitality. This only makes returning home even more difficult! We sincerely hope to return in the future and wish you the very best.
Rajiv and Anita
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Aout 17 2002
J'ai passé de fabuleuses vacances ici, c'est très beau!!!
Louis
France

2002
We had a nice vacation! Thank you for your service at all especially for Caterina and Siva. Thank you an success!
Jaret and Jessica
Holland


2002
Cela a été une semaine fabuleuse grace à cet endroit magique at au personnel si accueillant.
Merci à tous,
Catherine
Anvers, Belgique

September 9 2002
Thank you for a wonderful stay! The grounds are beautiful...il castello is magnificient...and the scenery is marvelous! We loved spending part of our honeymoon here!
We had a great and relaxing time here. Thanks to Caterina for all her help and directions. Hopefully we will be back again someday for an anniversary.
The honeymooners Gabby and Scott Dannemiller

Austin, Texas, USA

October 12 2002
A truly wonderful and magical week. Thank you for everything!
Michael and Sarah Robinson
London, UK

October 14 2002
Thank you for a wonderful week, allowing our families to come together in comfort and peace for our wedding. Truly memorable and elegant.
Thank you,
Nicholas and Saira
Mathew family
Rockwell family
Austin family

November 2002
We truly enjoyed our time there at the Castello. it is a beautiful place and very well managed. Thank you to much for your friendly cooperation. Please looks up if you are ever in New York!
Ed Pang and Francesca Zammarano
New York, USA

April 2003
Wonderful setting! Have enjoyed our stay enormously!
Rick and Sarah
UK

April 2003
Hello!
I want to thank you for a wonderful stay at Bibbione last week. Martin and I really enjoyed the beautiful surroundings and the hospitality of you and the rest of the staff. Thank you so much for putting us in Casa Giotto - it's a beautiful apartment and we loved it very much.
Take good care,
Debra DeFord Minerva

July 2003
Hi Caterina,
how are you? I am sorry that it has taken so long to email you these pictures. Once back from our trip in early May we had to catch up work and time passes so quickly. We wanted to tell you what a wonderful time we had in Italy and how pleasant was the stay we had at Castello di Bibbione. Thank you very much for your help and hospitality.
Jack and Theresa

July 2003
Dear Ginevra and Caterina,
our stay at your beautiful and inviting premises in the Pesa Valley was a real pleasure. We did enjoy very much the two weeks that we spent there, we were very satisfied with all facilities, with kind attention and assistance that we got at all times, and we were fascinated by the beauty of your place and its surroundings. The landscape views that we had from both our apartment and the swimming-pool will remain in our memories for a long time!
We will not hesitate to recommend the Castello di Bibbione to our friends and hope to visit your place again in the future.
We wish you good luck and hope for a successful evolution of the Wellness Centre.
Yours sincerely,
Adriana, Marìa-Pia and José Luis Cabero

Aout 2003
Nous avons passé de fabuleuses vacances dans cet endroit magnifique. La piscine est géniale.
Geoffroi, Bertrand et Bénédicte Souron
Maisons-Laffitte, France


August 2003
Dear Caterina,
we enjoyed our stay there and hope to come back. Hope it has cooled off somewhat!
Bill Carmen and Karen Nardi

September 2003
Hello Caterina,
I would just like to say that my wife and I had a wonderful time during our stay with you last week. The apartment was excellent and the views were breathtaking...the wine was superb. I have already recommended your resort to friends and will definitely see you again sometime next year I hope.
Best regards,
Andy


September 2003
Dear Ginevra,
we had a fantastic time staying in Castello di Bibbione for the second time. Like I said if you ever come to London you can call me and we can meet-up. Hope everything goes well according to your wedding plans. Good luck...
Aurora Wright

October  28 2003
Dear Ginevra and Caterina,
we had a lovely holiday in Italy and a large amount of credit goes to Castello di Bibbione and the pleasant staff and beautiful surroundings made available to us. Thank you for such special care while we were there. We were very happy on our late arrival, when Ginevra made reservation for our dinner for that evening, and again for our breakfast meals for the next day. Caterina made our stay as pleasant as she possibly could, taking care to answer any questions for us and also providing tourist information. We also would like to thank the lovely woman, Milena, who took us in her kitchen and showed us how to make the bread. The kind gentleman who made our breakfast and assisted in the wine tasting.
Hundred thanks for everything,
Rhonda and James Saunders
Rick and Pam Kydd
Nova Scotia, Canada


April 10 2004
Thank you so much for our beautiful holiday. Having 23 friends and family together for our Italian wedding has made everything so special. We will return.
Grazie mille
Ruth Gillett

April 2004
Dear Caterina,
We wish you a very Happy Easter and the fulfilling of all your wishes!
We would you like to take this opportunity to thank you again for all you did during our staying at Castello di Bibbione to enable us a superb holiday.
We hope to have again the opportunity to be again sometime at Castello di Bibbione and of course we will gladly recommend the place to our friends!
Thank you again,
Laura and Teddy Hoffman


May 2004
Dear Caterina,
Buon giorno
I want to thank you for all your helpful and courteous advice when we stayed. That week in Tuscany was fantastic and a perfect way to celebrate our 30th Wedding Anniversary. It was quite difficult returning to real life and work here in Canada.
We appreciated your day-trip suggestions to not-so tourist places like Certaldo and Monteriggioni, but also loved the unforgettable days in Florence, Siena, San Gimignano and Volterra. What a beautiful country you live in and the people of Tuscany are great - friendly, helpful and very fast drivers! We really enjoyed the wine tasting and tour of the castle also.
Please thank Ginevra also for the excellent accommodation and arrangements. Next time we plan to bring our whole family!
Grazie and kind regards,
Bruce and Barbara Broadbent
Ontario, Canada

June 2004
Hi Caterina,
you will meet us again, we will definitely come back one day! We had the most wonderful week at Bibbione and our wedding was perfect. Thank you so much for everything.
Best regards,
Caroline Flanagan


August 2004
We had a magical week at the castle. We could have done without the drama of watching the heavens open and then having to postpone our wedding! But once we'd accepted the ceremony and dinner would have to take place inside, we had a great time. Thanks for everything you and everyone else at Bibbione did for us. You couldn't have been any kinder - your father's champagne on the Thursday night really hit the spot!!
We'll definitely come back for our first anniversary so see you then!
Liz and Jim

2004
Hello Ginevra and Caterina,
it's been a few months since we were at Bibbione (July). We had a wonderful time, think of our vacation often and are planning a return visit.
We hope all is well with you.
Best regards,
Erin and Fred Kuhlman


April 2005
Dear Ginevra
I just wanted to thank you for your hospitality one more year at Le Ginestre. We had a great time and enjoyed every minute of it.
Also I want to thank you for your thoughtfulness about the four extra days we spent the second week. It was fantastic we didn't have to move and we appreciate very much the adjustments made to the rates.
I also wanted to tell you I have recommended your place to Manuel Gil, who is interested in Le Ginestre the last week in August.
Hope to see you next year Easter again!
Grazie tante per tutto,
Ana Gòmez-Tabanera
Spain

April 23/30 2005
Dear Ginevra, Caterina and the staff of il Castello di Bibbione: "beautiful, elegant, memorable, inspiring, just plain fun..."
On behalf of ourselves and the fifty guests who travelled with us from United States (several of whom are quoted above), Sarah and I would like to thank Ms. Rangoni Machiavelli and everyone at Castello di Bibbione for the most glorious wedding week imaginable. The accommodations, the guesthouses, the castle and its grounds were truly magnificent and luxuriously romantic. The chapel, the dining halls, the caterers, florists, musicians, and photographers that came recommended through you were top-notch and professional.
And, ultimately, you and your assistants were kind, generous and a complete joy to work with from the very first stages of planning through our final departure. We had not visited the grounds before our reservations; we relied on your informative website and your references to confirm our decision. And, similarly, we had no wedding planner to assist us - beyond you and the Convivium; you guidance in those matters was also complete. All in all, Tuscany, the castle, you staff and those you recommended exceeded all of our wildest expectations.
Our wedding was simply a story-book.
We will always remember this most perfect of days. You offered our party a wonderful gift: the opportunity to enjoy the heart and soul of Tuscany while nestled in a truly elegant and historically rich landscape. Everything was charming; and the renovations you had done were tasteful and wholly accommodating. Sarah, myself and all of our guests spent an unforgettable week. Embraced by the hills of Chianti, relaxing, daydreaming and planning on ways to return to Castello di Bibbione as soon as humanly possible. No one from our party left Italy without the fondest of memories. No one can stop talking about our time there with you. No one has lost that enthusiastic smile on his face recalling the food, the wine, and the experience as a whole. Both the seasoned travellers of Italy as well as the first-time visitors agreed that it was a trip they will not soon forget.
Thank you so very very much
Sarah and Rick
US


June 18th 2005
We had an absolutely fantastic vacation staying in La Canonica at the end of May. The castello is a magnificent property and we have tremendous memories of our visit. The swimming-pool is spectacular and I enjoyed my daily swims.
We intend coming back for at least two weeks in the future.
With kind regards,
Bud and Lindsay Kronenberg
Toronto, Canada

June 20th 2005
Dear Ginevra,
please accept our sincere thanks for the most wonderful facilities to spend memorable moments with good friends in a proper atmosphere and interesting surroundings. We came home with pleasant memories from Toscana.
Best regards,
Pekka and Raili Tanskanen
Finland


June 24th 2005
Caterina,
we can't express to you how much we enjoyed our stay at the villa. You made it easy for us. Thank you so much!!!
Debbie Donehey

October 10th 2005
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for a most wonderful and memorable week. We have enjoyed every aspect of this wonderful spot in all the world. We will recommend Bibbione to all our friends.
Frank and Sue York
Ashland, Kansas USA


Marzo 2006
Volevo esprimere la mia sincera soddisfazione al soggiorno nel castello dove abbiamo avuto la possibilità di trascorrere due piacevoli giornate, sia per quanto riguarda le confortevoli camere, elegantemente arredate e dotate di tutti i conforts, sia per lo splendido giardino e i vigneti caratteristici di queste colline, con davanti un superbo panorama. Una particolare attenzione alla disponibilità di tutto il personale addetto al castello.
Saluti,
Andrea Laurenti

May 2006
I came to Tuscany to try and learn to sketch. I fell in love with Castello di Bibbione. I have been insipired and enchanted. Everyone is so thoughtful, kind and friendly. I wish I could always be a princess in the castle and sketch everyday - and drink the delcious Italian wine.
Patty
Arlington, VA, USA


September 2006
Dear Ginevra,
It was such a nice surprise to see you and your husband at the castle. We sneaked at your wedding pictures from the website before, but it took some seconds to recognize you.
You have such a wonderful property – everyone loved it, it was such a big part of our wedding’s success, such a romantic and wonderful setting for a wedding celebration. We had that feeling in May, but we felt it even more on our wedding day, we couldn’t have spent it in a lovelier place.
Thanks to the info from your web page, we worked with Galateo and Carlo Giorgi – they were so professional and wonderful. You could offer some great wedding packages, and save young couples from dealing with “wedding planners”.
I know that we have been a little bit of a headache in the beginning, and we appreciate the patience you and Cristiana showed in dealing with our many phone calls and emails, but we are so glad everything had a happy ending. We intend to have our anniversary there, with as many friends as possible.
We wish you all the best and many thanks again.
Warm regards,
Amalia & Jorn

Octobre 2006
Un grand merci pour votre hospitalité et la qualité des équipements, la Casa Canonica et la casa Erta ont vraiment été appréciées de tous.
La splendeur du château et la campagne toscane resteront un très bon souvenir!
Merci beaucoup!
Maryvonne, André Clauzure et leurs enfants.
France


October 2006
Hi Ginevra,
My client, Mr & Mrs. Clark from London who stayed in Ginestre had a wonderful time and said so many nice things about the accommodations and the wellness center. They are thinking about coming back next summer to Castello di Bibbione with their entire family, to rent several apartments at once. I hope she comes back to me to book this through me.
Thanks for doing such a nice job. It's always so great to hear from happy guests.
Warm regards,
Lisa
Lisa Byrne | Italy Perfect
USA

May 2007
A wonderful week at Castello di Bibbione under the Tuscan Sun.
Pat, Al and Laura Grice
Toronto, Canada


May 2007
A beautiful location for a wonderful wedding.
Janet and Peter Akers
UK

June 2007
Dear Christiana and Kathrina,

I am sorry it has taken me so long to email you but I have been San Francisco since we returned from Italy on June 2. I have not forgotten your photos either. Just give me a couple of weeks and I will have them for you.  In case you have forgotten me, you can view my website which has my picture.

Diana Jones Williams and I had a wonderful time during our two week stay in Italy.  The best part was our time at Il Castello Di Bibbbione. It is so beautiful there.  Both of you were very cordial and helpful to us.  It was fun getting to know you. I wish you both the very best.
I have to get ready to leave for work. I will send another email with your photos soon.  Take care and have a pleasant summer. I wish I could write this in Italian. Maybe someday? Anyway, both of you understand English so well that I know you can read it in English.
Sincerely,
Michael Williams
Macon
, GA

July 2007
Nice comment from the Brechers. Thank you!
Pat | Excellent Europe
We are on our way home to Los Angeles. We spent some time in Venice and Rome before we went to Castello di Bibbione. We had a wonderful stay there - the property was great, the pool was gorgeous - nice and big for laps. The kids look forward to swimming every day after our day trips. Everyone was helpful. We enjoyed going to Mamma Rosa the first night and going to the little town San Casciano and visiting the cheese and wine stores. We had a very positive experience at Bibbione - everything you mentioned was right on - including the freeway noise which was a bit disappointing for us, but we slept through it anyway with the windows closed.
Thanks very much for all your help, Pat. We enjoyed the travel journals as well!
Emily Brecher
USA

Luglio 2007
My husband and I spent a delightful (but short!) week at the Castello di  Bibbione for our honeymoon. We fell in love with Italy on our trip to venice, but Tuscany, and in particular, this spot has taken our hearts. Everything about the castle stay was wonderful- staff were couteous, friendly and very helpful (we have a pitiful italian accent).
The Castello apartment was unreal, we felt transported back into the 16th century and the minute detail that the owner has gone into redecorating in the Tuscan style was amazing. The grounds are immaculate and the activities and services that were provided were spectacular - in particular the wonderful breakfasts prepared by our hosts - the Schiaciatta (sp), pecorino cheese, fruit salad and cafe latte's almost everyday were heaven. We loved the wine  tasting and tour of the castle, so very informative and gave us a chance to socialize with the other guests. If anyone is hesitating about this place to stay, look no further. 20 minutes outside of Florence, and half an hour driving to San Grimignano, Volterra and countless other charming hilltop villages was fantastic. Perfect weather, perfect place, and perfect hostpitality. Cheers to the staff at Castello di Bibbione!
Alison and Nick Farrell
USA

July 2007
Dear Ginevra,
Just wanted to drop a note to thank you for a wonderful time at Castello di Bibbione. Villa Il Poggio provides superb accommodations and it is wonderfully arranged.  Every corner and every angle in the house is a feast for the eye, not to mention the amazing views all around.  Christiana and Catherina were delightful, always very helpful, polite and very good with giving information about everything we asked.  I hope to return again.
Kind regards,
Zsuzsa Londe
USA