The family
An Italian, Czech, and Russian house.
Dmitry, Monica, and the eight people who run it.
Dmitry, Monica, and the eight people who run it.
The Eremeev-Salvatore family bought the castle in 2008 and restored it over ten years. They live there and host guests there.
Monica, from Salerno, runs the kitchen and the calendar. Dmitry looks after the restoration, the kitchen garden, and the cellar. A team of eight Czech colleagues makes sure every weekend lands.
Co-owner. The Italian branch. Kitchen, garden, calendar.
Co-owner. Restoration, cellar, team.
Head of hospitality. Coordinates weekends from Friday to Sunday.
Head chef. Florentine school, Czech garden, three menus to choose from.
In 2008 the castle had no working roof, no electricity in half the halls, and no running water in the chapel. The first winter was one room, a tiled stove, and one cable.
Then ten years of restoration, in layers: roof, rafters, plaster, floors, garden. One restorer spent two years uncovering the stucco in the hall. The chapel got new wiring hidden under seventeenth-century tiles that we lifted, numbered, and put back.
We opened in 2018 with a wedding weekend. Since then there have been thirty to forty events a year. Never two on the same day.
The castle isn't a museum. It's a house where we cook, heat, and host.Monica Salvatore