Convento Francescano Experience Hotel

Convento Francescano Experience Hotel Discover rural luxury where history, nature & tradition meet. Join the waitlist today!

Step into a 14th-century convent reimagined for retreats, weddings & authentic experiences in Cilento (UNESCO WH). 🌿 Opening Spring ‘25 | Pre-bookings start January.

Oggi festeggiamo il cuore del Convento Francescano. 🤍Buon compleanno, Chef Patrizia.Probabilmente lei preferirebbe non e...
09/09/2026

Oggi festeggiamo il cuore del Convento Francescano. 🤍
Buon compleanno, Chef Patrizia.

Probabilmente lei preferirebbe non essere nemmeno in questo post — non ha mai amato particolarmente farsi vedere, tantomeno sui social. Ma la verità è che senza di lei, molto probabilmente, non ci sarebbe neanche un Convento da raccontare.

Patrizia è il cuore della nostra cucina, ma è soprattutto molto di più.

La sua esperienza, la sua intelligenza, la sua forza e quella capacità quasi disarmante di trovare una soluzione quando sembra non essercene una sono dentro ogni cosa che abbiamo costruito. Ha dato a due ragazzi innamorati la possibilità di credere in un sogno enorme e poi si è messa al nostro fianco, ogni giorno, per aiutarci a renderlo reale.

A 18 anni ha lasciato la Puglia per cercare un futuro diverso in Lombardia. Lì ha incontrato Dante, con lui ha costruito una famiglia e una vita piena di soddisfazioni, senza mai perdere ciò che la rende la persona che è: la semplicità, il lavoro, l’onestà prima di tutto verso se stessa e poi verso gli altri, e un amore enorme per la propria famiglia.

Forse essere una donna forte significa proprio questo. Non dover fare tutto da sola, ma saper prendere l’amore costruito in una vita — quello per Dante, per la propria famiglia, per ciò in cui si crede — e trasformarlo in qualcosa di concreto. In cura, lavoro, coraggio. In un futuro migliore per le persone che ami.

Oggi tanti dei nostri ospiti si innamorano del Sud Italia attraverso la sua cucina. Noi sappiamo, però, che quello che Patrizia ha dato e continua a dare al Convento va molto oltre i fornelli.

Siamo fieri di te.
Alberto come figlio, e Alberto e Maria Chiara per il privilegio di costruire tutto questo insieme a te.

Buon compleanno, mamma.
Dentro questo posto c’è tantissimo di te. 🤍

Alberto & Maria Chiara

In 2006, Alberto’s father, Dante, bought this palm-woven sculpture by Egyptian artist Ahmed Askalany in Milan.He chose t...
06/09/2026

In 2006, Alberto’s father, Dante, bought this palm-woven sculpture by Egyptian artist Ahmed Askalany in Milan.

He chose the donkey knowing its connection to Cuccaro Vetere, his hometown, where it is a symbol of the village.

Above it sit three figures, two adults and a child. Over the years, we have inevitably come to see a little of our own family in them.
Almost twenty years later, when we won the tender for Convento Francescano, there was never really a question about where it belonged.
It was one of the very first pieces we brought here.

Today, it is one of the artworks our guests and photographers notice most. But for Alberto and Patrizia, it carries something much more personal: a piece chosen by Dante, now living in the place where his roots and ours began.

📸1-2 Agi Sibiga
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A day in some of our favourite corners of Cilento with Lien Verwimp From the blue waters of Palinuro to the little harbo...
05/09/2026

A day in some of our favourite corners of Cilento with Lien Verwimp

From the blue waters of Palinuro to the little harbour of Marina di Pisciotta, before climbing through olive groves to the ancient streets of Pisciotta.

Sea and mountains. Tiny villages. Long lunches. Roads with no reason to hurry.

This is the Cilento we fell in love with — and the one we love sharing with our guests.

Save this for your next journey through Southern Italy.

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L’ultimo viaggio della stagione di The Wine Table ci porta in Sicilia.Sabato 12 settembre, al Convento Francescano, inco...
03/09/2026

L’ultimo viaggio della stagione di The Wine Table ci porta in Sicilia.

Sabato 12 settembre, al Convento Francescano, incontriamo Donnafugata , una delle cantine che più hanno contribuito a raccontare nel mondo la ricchezza e le tante anime del vino siciliano.

Per una sera, Cilento e Sicilia si incontrano attorno a un’unica tavola.

Cinque vini ci accompagneranno in un viaggio attraverso l’isola: dall’Etna vulcanico di Bollicina Gold e Isolano, alla Sicilia sud-orientale di Floramundi, fino a Mille e una Notte e alla viticoltura eroica di Pantelleria raccontata dal Ben Ryé.

A ciascun calice, una portata dell’Osteria del Convento, costruita come sempre a partire dalla nostra cucina e dai prodotti del territorio.
5 vini. 5 portate. Un’unica tavola conviviale.
Un ultimo appuntamento per chiudere insieme il viaggio di The Wine Table 2026, nel chiostro del Convento insieme ai nostri amici di Wine&Thecity che hanno curato con noi il viaggio e alla tecnica di degustazione dell’ AIS Cilento e Vallo di Diano

Sabato 12 settembre · ore 20:30
Convento Francescano · Cuccaro Vetere, Cilento

€80 a persona
€70 soci AIS

Posti limitati · prenotazione obbligatoria

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The Wine Table × Donnafugata
Il Cilento incontra la Sicilia.

The last morning of August. There is something different about the light at the end of summer.The sun rises a little sof...
31/08/2026

The last morning of August.
There is something different about the light at the end of summer.

The sun rises a little softer over the old stone, the mornings become quieter, and the Convento slowly begins to change its rhythm.

August may be ending today, but perhaps this is when one of the most beautiful times in Cilento begins.

Long breakfasts. Empty roads. Quiet villages. Warm days and cooler evenings. The sea still carrying the memory of summer.

A slower season is about to begin,
and we might love it even more.
Lien Verwimp

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The sun rises a little softer over the old stone, the mornings become quieter, and the Convento slowly begins to change ...
31/08/2026

The sun rises a little softer over the old stone, the mornings become quieter, and the Convento slowly begins to change its rhythm.

August may be ending today, but perhaps this is when one of the most beautiful times in Cilento begins.

Long breakfasts. Empty roads. Quiet villages. Warm days and cooler evenings. The sea still carrying the memory of summer.

A slower season is about to begin.
And we might love it even more.

Lien Verwimp
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Gentle lights at Convento Francescano. ✨And a little piece of Cilento, now travelling all the way to the Netherlands. 🇳🇱...
30/08/2026

Gentle lights at Convento Francescano. ✨

And a little piece of Cilento, now travelling all the way to the Netherlands. 🇳🇱

We are incredibly happy to be part of the latest issue of Smaak van Italië, with a beautiful multi-page journey through Cilento: its ancient villages, wild coastline, traditions, food and the people choosing to preserve and give new life to this extraordinary land.

Among those pages, there is also a little piece of our story: Convento Francescano, Cuccaro Vetere, our family, and the idea of a different kind of luxuryc made of space, silence, authenticity and a slower way of living.

A special thank you to for capturing our home and Cilento through her beautiful photographs, and to De Smaak van Italië for giving us the opportunity to tell our story and, above all, to introduce this wonderful National Park to so many Dutch travellers.

For our Dutch friends, the new issue is now on newsstands. 🤍

Perhaps your next journey through Italy begins here, in Cilento.

Some places change with the light.This summer, we invited Agi Sibiga back to the Convento to capture what has changed, a...
25/08/2026

Some places change with the light.

This summer, we invited Agi Sibiga back to the Convento to capture what has changed, and what remains timeless.

Her way of seeing the evening light falling through our ancient cloister, a table slowly coming to life, a dish leaving the kitchen, the quiet moments before dinner begins.

Because the Convento is always evolving, but some things remain beautifully the same.

Summer evenings, seen through her eyes.

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Morning light finding its way through centuries-old arches.Warm stone, quiet corridors, and nowhere you need to be.Just ...
21/08/2026

Morning light finding its way through centuries-old arches.
Warm stone, quiet corridors, and nowhere you need to be.

Just another morning at a 14th-century convent, hidden in the hills of Southern Italy.

Save this place for when Italy feels a little too crowded.
📸 Lien Verwimp

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Even summer needs a moment to breathe.After weeks of sun, the rain finally returned to the Cilento hills.Here, we call i...
18/08/2026

Even summer needs a moment to breathe.
After weeks of sun, the rain finally returned to the Cilento hills.

Here, we call it “Trupìa”, the sudden summer rain that rolls down from the mountains on August afternoons.

And for a little while, everything changes.
The air turns lighter, the heat loosens its grip, and as the clouds move away, the last light of the day finds its way through the arches of our ancient cloister.
A quieter kind of summer in Southern Italy.
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