Hotels and Spas

In Southern Corsica, between Bonifacio and Sartène, the Murtoli Estate refuses to be pigeonholed, offering its guests a magical environment in between sea and mountains.

By Marine Normand - Photos Camille Moirenc - January 16, 2012

It's impossible to label the Murtoli Estate, this address contradicts all hotel models already in existence, offering a unique definition of luxury, that of space and endless views. There's no rooms for hire, nor lobby, bar or restaurant assembled under a single name in a grandiose building stuck downtown. Thirteen properties dispersed by history over 2,000 hectares of luxuriant scrubland

charm their temporary residents with their old stones. In this former farm, near a Megalithic site, its barns and restored 18th century manor houses charmingly dot eight kilometers of coast. An exceptional heritage, where nature almost appears subjugated, the pools, the clear streams alongside which time seems to have stopped, the secret coves and Corsica like a desert island for lucky Robinson Crusoes.

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Domaine de Murtoli

Vallée d'Ortolo

20 100 Sartène

www.murtoli.com 

 

 

Yet there's no ostentation in these unique residences that privilege a monastic sobriety. One restaurant is housed in a natural cave and plays with forms imposed by Mother Nature, while the other, exotic, is inside a fisherman's shack. The owners have highlighted a somber and minimal decor, based on noble materials worked with ancient techniques. Unadorned, the environment is perceived in a raw and sensitive way, far from the tasteful masks of modern reality. Like a peaceful retreat, the estate returns us to our origins and rebalances our relationship with nature, recovering a unique symbiosis. Once a lost sheep, the client becomes a shepherd in this timeless pastoral setting. It's time to really get back to basics, which you are very likely to find at the Murtoli Estate…