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Tee Off in Italy's Best-Kept Secret - Antognolla Golf
There is a particular kind of morning that only Umbria knows how to make. The mist hangs low over the olive groves. The hills — layered and impossibly green — stretch to the horizon. The air smells of damp earth and woodsmoke and something that is difficult to name but easy to remember. Before you've had your first coffee, you already feel like you belong here.
This is the Italy that hasn't been discovered yet. No queues, no cruise ship crowds, no selfie sticks. Just rolling countryside, medieval hilltop villages, and an unhurried pace of life that feels almost radical by today's standards. It is, as the Italians say, la dolce vita — and it is very much alive here.
"Named Italy's best golf course three times. And yet somehow, the world still hasn't quite caught on."
The course that changes everything
Nestled into the Umbrian hills, just 25 minutes from Perugia, sits Antognolla Golf — a course that has quietly, repeatedly, won Italy's highest golfing honour. Designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones Jr., the 18-hole par-71 championship layout stretches over 6,100 metres of breathtaking terrain, with long fairways framed by limestone cliffs, shimmering water hazards, and wide undulating greens that test every club in the bag.
It won the World Golf Award for Best Golf Course in Italy in 2020, 2022 and again in 2024. It hosted the Alps Tour international tournament. It has been GEO-certified for its sustainability credentials. And it sits — rather dramatically — in the shadow of a 12th-century castle whose crypt predates the Benedictine monks who once occupied it.
3x Best Golf Course in Italy — World Golf Awards
18 Holes across 6,100 m of Umbrian landscape
540 Hectares of estate — olive groves, vines & forest
Whether you're a seasoned single-handicapper or someone who simply loves a beautiful walk with a club in hand, Antognolla rewards every level of play. Multiple tee positions, a full driving range, a golf academy, and on-site fitting services mean you can arrive with nothing and leave having played one of the finest rounds of your life.
After the round, the real magic begins
Golf at Antognolla is extraordinary — but Umbria's dining scene makes sure the day doesn't end there. This is a region where the land feeds the table, where truffles are found at dawn and plated by evening, and where a handful of chefs are quietly doing some of the most exciting cooking in Italy.
Une
Capodacqua di Foligno, Umbria
★ Michelin Star
★ Green Star
The name means water in the ancient language of Umbria — fitting for a restaurant housed in a 17th-century mill beside a spring-fed stream in the hamlet of Capodacqua. Chef Giulio Gigli trained at some of Europe's most celebrated kitchens — from Disfrutar in Barcelona (now ranked among the World's 50 Best) to Yannick Alléno's three-starred Le 1947 in Courchevel — before returning to his home region with a singular vision: to elevate forgotten Umbrian ingredients through precise, contemporary technique. The result earned a Michelin star in 2024, followed swiftly by a Michelin Green Star for sustainability in 2026 — a rare double that mirrors the philosophy of the region itself. Almost everything on the plate comes from within 20 kilometres of the table. The tasting menus are seasonal, quietly inventive, and deeply rooted in the land. An evening at Une is not merely dinner; it is an argument for why Umbria deserves to be talked about in the same breath as Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna.
ALSO WORTH THE TABLE
La Boiola, the estate restaurant at Antognolla itself, serves traditional Umbrian cuisine made from produce grown on the estate — a perfect, unhurried lunch between rounds. And for something more rustic, the trattorias of nearby Montone and Città di Castello offer the kind of honest, generous cooking that reminds you what Italian food is really about.
Base yourself at our beautiful Casale San Cristoforo, it is the perfect base for a golf and gastronomy escape that feels entirely, unhurriedly Umbrian.
The traveller who comes to Antognolla isn't chasing yardage charts alone. They want the full Umbrian life — to sleep deeply, eat extraordinarily well, and play on a course that genuinely deserves its reputation. Umbria offers all of it, and still, somehow, keeps it quiet.
Come before everyone else finds out...