Napoleon Bonaparte's brother-in-law, Félix Baciocchi, built the estate at Tenuta La Badiola in the early nineteenth century as an imperial hunting retreat, and the terracotta-roofed villa that anchors L'Andana today carries that provenance with considerable ease. Seen from above, the salmon-pink palazzo rises from the flat agricultural plain of the Maremma near Grosseto — vineyards pressing close on three sides, stone pines and Italian cypresses drawing a formal perimeter — with the authority of a building that was always meant to command its landscape rather than defer to it. Alain Ducasse brought the estate back to life in 2004 when he converted it into a relais with around thirty rooms, and the restaurant La Trattoria Enrico Bartolini has since become the gastronomic anchor for the whole southern Tuscan coast. Inside, the interiors lean into the character of the original fabric rather than smoothing it away. Rooms are dressed in Venetian-plaster walls washed to a warm amber, wide-plank oak floors, and carved baroque headboards upholstered in deep red or lacquered in silver-leaf white — furniture that draws on Italian eighteenth-century decorative traditions without tipping into pastiche. The restaurant preserves exposed handmade brick columns and barrel-vaulted ceilings finished in the same terracotta tile visible across the roofline, a glazed wine library set flush between the columns as an unabashedly contemporary intervention. The pool terrace, framed by stone-paved lounging decks and garden borders thick with Mediterranean planting, pulls the building's warm ochre facade into easy conversation with the Maremman sky.

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L'Andana, the former residence of Leopold II, Duke of Tuscany, has become a refined hotel, nestled at the foot of hills with centuries-old olive groves and vineyards. Located in Maremma, just a few steps from the beautiful Tuscan sea, L'Andana perfectly illustrates the elegant "art de vivre" of Tuscany. Wine and olive oil are produced on site, and guests can also enjoy traditional Tuscan cuisine, based on regional products and excellent seafood. The estate consists of 61 rooms and suites, apartments, and the property's exclusive private villa, La Scuderia. Under the extraordinary supervision of Italy's most Michelin-starred chef, Enrico Bartolini, L'Andana boasts 2 restaurants, including one with a Michelin star. The intimate and refined Spa, moreover, will offer guests of L'Andana the ultimate in pampering and pleasure, as well as fitness and vitality. For lovers of Tuscany and the natural sea park of L’Uccellina, look no further: Maremma is your place.