Restaurant
The Restaurant "La Quintana" is on the ground floor of the San Pancrazio Cottages. It offers a variety of local Marches cooking as well as modern interpretations of Italian cooking. Immersed in the garden, it is a friendly meeting-place for the guests at the Borgo.
In the summer, by the pool, the chef offers a delicious cold buffet to savour in the peace and quiet of natural surroundings.
Open all year round, also to the public, including holidays.

Swimming Pool

The sun-drenched swimming pool set in beautiful natural surroundings, is positioned to enjoy the fresh sea breeze that blows from the nearby Adriatic Riviera.
Open from 1st May to 30th September, exclusively for use by guests at the Borgo.

Gym
The gym, located in a small building next to the swimming pool, is equipped with exercise bike, Swedish wall bars, floor exercise equipment. It is completed with a sauna, usable on request. There is also a bathroom equipped for people with disabilities, also available to pool users.
On request, we can suggest personal training and massage sessions, carried out by trusted, qualified staff.

Coffee House

On one side of this space is the family chapel dedicated to Saint Pancrazio and on the other a panoramic terrace that overlooks the Tronto Valley running down from the Sibillini Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. Here one can enjoy special cocktails prepared by our expert barman and dishes served daily that propose authentic ingredients, checked by our nutritionist Dr. Mauro Mario Mariani. All the produce is natural from our kitchen garden and the surrounding countryside.

Bookshop & Boutique

This place acts as a source of ideas and local craft creativity. In close cooperation with the best craftsmen of the region we have succeeded in creating a collection that is unique for its style, colour, finish and detail. The products in the Boutique range from bobbin lace, leather bags, pottery and copper, to jewellery in silver and precious stones, to clothes for gardening and elegant evenings. Books specialised in local history and the environment provide the perfect surround for unforgettable gifts. 

Meeting Rooms
The recent restoration of the ancient riding stables enabled the creation of a new multifunctional space: two rooms of sixty and fifty square metres respectively are available to accommodate all types of work meetings. This is the ideal place for high level occasions in a discrete and welcoming atmosphere. The structure is fitted with the latest equipment and with everything that business people could require. These services are completed with coffee breaks and working breakfasts...

 Technical Data

Wine Tasting
At the Filippo Panichi Wine Cellar that completes the property of the Castel di Lama family. Guests at the Borgo are personally accompanied by the owner and are introduced to the modern techniques used to produce fine wines. The visit is followed by a tasting of wines that we produce, along with local food produce at the shop.

The Borgo arranges gastronomic tours which include: visits to other local wine cellars, cookery lessons, visits to places of artistic and cultural interest, for groups of between 8 and 14 people.

Events
All the events which take place at the Borgo Storico Seghetti Panichi are refined and elegant. Our specialized staff are there to satisfy every request with the utmost care and attention. Cocktail, business and gala dinners, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, christenings or private moments to share in a small number for a unique experience.

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Activities
The spread of activities proposed by the Borgo Storico Seghetti Panichi reflects a philosophy of the art of living. The Cultural Association presents artistic and local themes at exhibitions and events of national importance.

What to See

Cookery Lessons
The tradition of typical Marches cooking and family recipes of good Italian cooking form the basis of our courses. The variety of produce that every season offers creates the starting-point of each lesson. They are then specially prepared to suits clients’ tastes.

The Ascoli Piceno historical archive contains a description dating back to 1300 of “a castle on the Lama stream”, built as a watch tower at the centre of vast fiefdoms due to its strategic defensive position with 360° visibility from the Sibillini Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. The architecture of the Borgo has left its signs over the course of seven centuries. The ancient castle crypt, today the kitchen in the old residence, has a typically 15th century arched design; the Oratory dedicated to San Pancrazio, was built at the end of the 16th century, whilst the façade of the historic house was wholly added between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. The San Pancrazio cottage dates back to the early 17th century and gradually grew to its present size. It was designed as a dwelling for the peasants who worked on the estate. It was completely restored in recent years thus completing the Borgo, and it now contains five apartments with fine period furnishings, a swimming pool in the garden, which is next to the gym and the sauna.

HISTORIC GARDENS

In 1870 the noble Carfratelli Seghetti family decided to leave an elegant and cultivated botanical imprint on what had become their summer residence, and they engaged an outstanding European personality: the great German landscape architect Ludwig Winter. At that time he was well-known for his work on the garden of Villa La Mortola at Ventimiglia (now a national botanical garden) owned by the English Hanbury brothers. He was also a great lover of exotic plants. The Seghetti Panichi Historic Gardens, which he designed, is a rare example of what one could call “a moved landscape”, with exotic palms and terraced citrus trees which are typical of the Ligurian landscape. To plant a garden of such dimensions and particularly of such botanical importance required an enormous intellectual and economic commitment. Indeed, there are still local records of the processions of ox-drawn carts that transported the fresh soil from the river banks.

The complex water system and the snaking terra cotta channels for rain water drainage are still visible today. Among the various examples of palm tree there are large groups of Chamaerops humilis and Washingtonia filifera, with their cascades of egg-shaped fruit, Brahea dulcis, with Cordyline australis, at whose feet are found the white bellflowers of Yucca gloriosa and groups of Cordyline australis, with two rare Yubea spectabilis. Of significant interest are also the other trees, some of which are typical to the Marches countryside, such as copper beeches and oaks. One oak, known as ‘The Cathedral’ for the breadth of its trunk and its foliage, is home to hundreds of birds in its branches. Other important trees include a number of magnolias, holm oaks, linden trees, two Ginkgo bilobas, a splendid example of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana and another of Cycas revolute. Behind, in the centre of a soft chrysoprase pond, stands a delicate travertine statue of Venus and Love hand in hand, as if to suggest the joining of beauty and nature. As in all of Winter’s gardens there is a little spot devoted to meditation: the hermitage, a place of internalisation for every visitor, who, whilst appreciating the peace and elegance of the garden, wishes to reflect more carefully on the deep union nexus man and nature, between life of Being and vegetative life. The Seghetti Panichi Historic Gardens is part of the national circuit of ‘Great Italian Gardens’ and of the extremely well-known French association Fous de Palmiers.

The Kitchen Garden

The Fruit and Vegetable Gardens and the Garden of the Simple are two beating hearts in the Historic Gardens. Mens sana in corpore sano. We have always known that the psychological and physical wellbeing of the human being is also in part the result of the food he eats, thus, the quality and genuineness of the produce of the earth. These two kitchen gardens enable us to offer our guests tasty and natural ingredients all year round.

San Pancrazio Garden

Recently planted, this Garden surrounds the San Pancrazio Cottage, which was once part of the Family agricultural estate. Today this is a beautiful green space bounding the southern entrance of the Borgo. It is planted with lavender, rosemary and thyme bushes typical of the Mediterranean area. The paths are shaped with olive trees - which characterize Le Marche landscape - and laurels, forming green-shaded barriers to protect the privacy of the Borgo. Lawns are coloured in flowerbeds of intense red “Seville roses”, while pale pink “Clair Matin” roses cover the Reception walls. Light salmon coloured oleanders together with “Fairy Queen” and “Sea-foam” roses surround and embellish the swimming-pool area; wild broom bushes garnish the garden. All these elements form a delicate coloured palette brightening up the grounds. A young oak and a group of palm trees transplanted from the Historic Gardens, complete the landscape giving a sense of continuity between these two green natural spaces of the Borgo.