Tuscan scenery, Roman soul, and the whole estate to yourselves. Perfect for a wedding weekend for around 30 guests.Prices updated October 2026 · by Marina
A private estate twenty-five minutes from the Colosseum, taken over entirely for three days. Ideal at thirty guests, and we would not take it past a hundred.
Most couples who want vineyards, cypresses and umbrella pines go looking in Tuscany, three hours from Rome. Casale del Gallo has the same landscape at the southern gate of the city, which means your guests can land at Ciampino in the morning and be swimming before lunch, and still spend a day at the Vatican without losing the day to a motorway.
For a wedding the estate is never shared. Three farmhouses, two pools, the lawns and the lemon garden belong to you and your guests from Friday afternoon to Monday morning. Twenty-nine people sleep on site, which is the number that makes this place what it is: nobody drives home, nobody waits in a hotel lobby, and the morning after the wedding everyone is still there, barefoot, at the same long table.
at a glance
At a glance
30where it is at its best
100and not one more
Budget level: €90,000 to €150,000budget level
Where
Via di Fioranello 31, southern edge of Rome, by the Castelli Romani hills
Rome centre
15 km, about 25 minutes
Airports
Ciampino 5 km (under 10 minutes), Fiumicino 30 km (about 30 minutes)
Landscape
Vineyards, olive groves, cypresses and umbrella pines; golf course adjoining
Format
Wedding weekend only. The estate is taken for a minimum of three nights
Best at
Around 30 guests
Dinner indoors
Up to 40
Dinner in the gardens
Up to 100. Beyond that we ask the estate before we promise anything
Sleeping on site
29 guests across three houses, 15 bedrooms, 12 full bathrooms
Pools
Two, open to all guests at any hour, unheated
Check in and out
3 pm and 11 am
Ceremony
Symbolic anywhere on the estate. Civil at a town hall. Catholic in a Roman parish
Kitchen
The estate's own chef, six to nine dishes to choose from per course
Music
Outdoors until 1 am, then indoors without a limit
Step-free
Yes to all three houses; one house has every bedroom on the ground floor
Dogs
Welcome
Season
May to September. Other months on request
the villa
The estate
Casale del Gallo sits on Via di Fioranello, where Rome stops being a city and becomes vineyards, olive groves and the hills of the Castelli Romani, with the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo on the horizon. The estate carries the name of the family who owns it and who still lives the land around it. The Fioranello golf course is the neighbour on one side, the Appian Way runs a few kilometres on the other.
It is three ochre farmhouses set among lemon trees, rosemary and lavender, with two pools and lawns wide enough to lose a hundred people in. Nothing about it is a venue in the commercial sense. It is a house that happens to be large enough for a wedding, and that is precisely the quality you are paying for.
Getting there. Ciampino is five kilometres away, under ten minutes by car, which matters more than it sounds: guests coming from London, Paris or Lisbon land there, not at Fiumicino. Fiumicino, for the transatlantic flights, is thirty kilometres and about half an hour. The historic centre is twenty-five minutes. Aircraft noise does not reach the estate.
The last stretch is an unpaved country lane. We will come back to that.
rooms
The three houses
House
Sleeps
Bedrooms
What it is
Casale San Carlo
17
8 doubles, 1 single, 5 en suite
The main house. Two sitting rooms with fireplaces, a dining room for twenty, the pool facing the golf course
Casale Sant'Antonio
8
4 doubles, all on the ground floor, 2 en suite
The bright one. Four rooms in four palettes, and the black cocktail pool that turns the sunset green
Casale San Giorgio
4
2 doubles, both en suite
The hideaway. Ivy, two rooms, a kitchen and nothing but vines out of the window
Who we put where. San Carlo goes to the couple and both sets of parents, because the ceremony and the getting-ready happen around it and nobody should be walking across the estate in a dress. Sant'Antonio goes to the wedding party, for the obvious reason that the black pool is where the evening before the wedding ends up. San Giorgio we hold back: either as the couple's own retreat for the night after, or for the grandparents who want the door to close on the music.
Every house has a full kitchen. Both pools are open to everyone at any hour. Towels, laundry, iron and steamer are there, and daily housekeeping is arranged on request.
the days
The weekend
The three-night minimum is not a condition we work around. It is the reason to come here at all, and the shape of the weekend follows from it.
Thursday or Friday, arrival. Transfers from Ciampino and Fiumicino, check-in at three. In the evening, either a tasting among the vines at Tenuta Principe Alberico two kilometres away, or a long table in the garden with nothing planned after it.
Saturday, the wedding. Breakfast under the pines. Hair and makeup in whichever house has the better light that morning, which is Sant'Antonio in summer. The ceremony where you choose. Aperitivo by the pool with live music, dinner by candlelight, the chef's millefoglie, the bar open, and the dancing moving indoors at one.
Sunday, the day after. Brunch that starts late and does not really end, the pools, and the wood-fired oven lit in the evening for pizza. This is the day guests talk about afterwards, more often than the wedding itself.
Monday, goodbye. One more breakfast and transfers out.
In between there is golf next door, horses ten minutes away, bicycles on the Appian Way past the ruins, a cooking class, the hill towns of the Castelli Romani, or a day in Rome with a guide who is not the one in the guidebook. We plan and book all of it, and we tell you which of it your particular guests will actually do.
ceremony
The ceremony, and what Italy requires
Three routes, and the one you choose decides your timeline more than any other decision you will make.
Symbolic, on the estate. Under the pines, on the open lawn, or at the side of the black pool at golden hour, which is where the light is. The trees give real shade for a daytime ceremony, which matters in July. Same-sex couples are welcome here without qualification. A symbolic ceremony carries no legal weight, so most couples sign at home before or after.
Civil, at a town hall. Legally binding in Italy and recognised at home. It happens in a municipal room rather than on the estate, and then you come back and celebrate. We prepare the Nulla Osta, the translations and the apostilles, book the hall and bring the interpreter the law requires.
Catholic, in a Roman parish. This is the route Americans most often want and most often leave too late. Allow six months. The file goes through your own parish at home, then your diocese, then the Vicariate of Rome, and no amount of goodwill compresses that. If your date is closer than six months away, the honest answer is a symbolic ceremony on the estate with the church to follow, and we will say so on the first call rather than three months in.
Sveta lives in Rome and has walked this paperwork through more times than she would like to count. It is the single part of an Italian wedding that cannot be done from abroad.
season
Season and availability
May to September. The pools are unheated, so the swimming months run from late May, and the Roman countryside in August is hot in a way that shapes the whole timeline: ceremony late, aperitivo in shade, dinner at sunset. Other months are possible on request, and a September wedding here is better than a July one in almost every respect except the water.
A Tuesday in May costs noticeably less than a Saturday in July, and the estate is quieter, and the light is better. We say this before you ask, because it is true and because it is the kind of thing a planner who is paid a percentage has no reason to mention.
plan b
If it rains
Up to forty guests move indoors to San Carlo and the evening is, frankly, lovelier. Above forty the answer is the estate's Crystal tent: a large transparent marquee from their exclusive partner, so this is not a supplier we can shop around for. It keeps the garden and the sky visible, which is the point of it.
The tent is sized to your guest count, roughly a square metre and a quarter per person. It is reserved well in advance against a forty percent deposit that is not refundable, and four days before the wedding you decide with the forecast in hand whether to confirm it or let it go. We make that call with you rather than for you, and we ask the estate for a firm number for your group size at the time of booking, so the decision is never a surprise.
We keep the tent outside the main budget and show it as its own line, because a rain plan you cannot see is a rain plan nobody makes.
table and music
The table, the wine and the night
The kitchen is the estate's own, and it is the one supplier here you do not choose. The chef cooks the Roman countryside or the Mediterranean, and instead of a fixed menu you pick from six to nine dishes for each course, which is unusually generous and a little overwhelming. We go through the list with you dish by dish, because we have eaten it.
There is no tasting before the wedding. The estate does not offer one, and we would rather say that here than have you discover it in month four. What we do instead is tell you which of those dishes travel well to a garden in August and which do not.
Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free are prepared on request, and there is a children's menu. The cake is the chef's millefoglie, which is the most Roman thing on the table.
The wine comes from the land you are looking at. Reds and whites from Tenuta di Fiorano and the Appia Antica, the historic estates on the same hills. For the welcome evening, guests walk through the cellar at L'Orto di Alberico two kilometres away and taste with a board of local cheeses and salumi.
Forty guests dine indoors in the main sitting room of San Carlo, under the paintings, by candlelight. Anything larger goes to the gardens: long imperial tables, aperitivo at the pool, festoon lights.
The night ends when you decide. Music outdoors until one in the morning, which is the legal limit and not negotiable. After that the party moves inside San Carlo and carries on with no limit at all, which is why we design the evening with that move built in rather than fought against. Sparklers, cold fountains, petals and candles are allowed. Drones fly here. Fireworks, rice and confetti do not.
The estate provides tables, chairs, linen, tableware, glassware, service staff, a projector, a screen and a speaker. Beyond catering there are no exclusive suppliers, so flowers, photography, film, music and beauty are ours.
budget
What your budget looks like
Budget level: €90,000 to €150,000
€90,000 to €150,000 for a full wedding weekend at Casale del Gallo, whether you are thirty guests or a hundred. The estate is taken whole either way, so the budget moves far less with guest count here than it would anywhere else. That is unusual, and at fifty guests or more it works strongly in your favour.
Which end of that range your weekend lands at, we will tell you on the first call.
What the number covers
Planning, design and coordination from the first call to the last transfer, with two coordinators on the wedding day
Exclusive use of the estate for three nights and beds for twenty-nine guests
Welcome evening, wedding dinner, open bar, every breakfast, and the pizza party or brunch on the Sunday
Symbolic ceremony on the estate
Photographer, film, flowers and decor, hair and makeup, DJ and live music
Lighting, rentals, transfers, and every Italian tax and fee, stated from the start rather than surfacing in month five
What it does not cover
Flights, what you wear, the rings, the rain tent, and the optional things that are genuinely optional, such as a vintage car or entertainment for the guests.
Every wedding is costed individually. You get a line-by-line estimate for your date after the first call.
honest limits
What we would not do here
The right estate is the one whose limits you know before you sign. These are ours for Casale del Gallo.
01
We would not bring a hundred guests here without seeing the rain plan first.
The gardens hold a hundred comfortably. The indoor fallback holds forty. Everything between those two numbers depends on a tent we cannot substitute and must commit to months ahead.
02
We would not put you in an open-top car.
The last stretch is a dusty unpaved lane. It is part of why the place feels remote, and it is the end of a white dress. We plan closed cars and keep the convertible for the photographs by the vines, stationary.
03
We would not plan a wedding here for guests who all want their own hotel.
Twenty-nine beds is the number that makes this estate work. Above that, the rest stay in hotels nearby and we run the shuttles, which is perfectly fine but is a different weekend, and couples should choose it knowingly.
04
We would not promise a legal ceremony on the lawn.
Only symbolic ceremonies happen on the estate. The civil ceremony is at a town hall, and the church is in Rome.
05
We would not leave the pools unwatched.
Neither pool is fenced. If small children are coming, we arrange childcare, and we would push back if you declined it.
06
We would not count on a tasting.
The estate does not offer one. You choose from the chef's list with our guidance, and that is the honest version of it.
07
We would not book a swim weekend before late May.
The pools are unheated, and April here looks warmer in photographs than it is at seven in the evening.
our part
What we carry
The estate gives you the houses, the gardens, the chef and the staff. Everything that turns a beautiful property into your wedding sits outside that, and it sits in Italian.
We are based in Rome. We have planned weddings at Casale del Gallo, which means we know the chef's cooking, the family who owns the land, how the light falls at seven in August and which of the three houses the grandparents should get.
The paperwork. Nulla Osta, translations, apostilles, the town hall, the interpreter, and the six-month church file if you are going that way.
The suppliers. Flowers, photography, film, music, beauty, all people we have worked with here, chosen for your aesthetic rather than for who answers the phone first.
The menu. Six to nine dishes a course and no tasting is a lot to decide blind. We decide it with you.
The guests beyond twenty-nine. Hotels chosen around what your particular guests care about, and every shuttle run on the night.
The rain. The tent reserved early, and the confirm-or-release call made four days out with the forecast open in front of both of us.
The money. One budget with every Italian tax and fee in it from the start, and one payment schedule instead of nine.
The day itself. Two coordinators, so you and your parents are guests at your own wedding.
Where the money goes. Eleven years here means we know where twenty thousand euros changes the evening and where the same twenty thousand disappears without a single guest noticing. That is most of what you are actually buying.
We take a limited number of weddings each season. That is not a sales line, it is three people and a calendar.
photos
More from Casale del Gallo
our weddings here
In the words of our couples
You organised much more than a wedding. It was a small life, one we would love to live again and that is simply impossible to repeat. Our families will remember those days as the most beautiful of their lives.
Between €90,000 and €150,000 for the full weekend, including the estate, the food, every supplier, Italian taxes and our work. Because the estate is taken whole, the figure moves less with guest count than you would expect. You get a line-by-line estimate for your date after the first call.
Does it really look like Tuscany?
The vineyards, cypresses and umbrella pines do. The difference is that you are twenty-five minutes from the Colosseum instead of three hours.
How many guests can we have?
Forty for dinner indoors, a hundred in the gardens. The estate is at its best at around thirty. Above a hundred we ask the estate before we promise you anything.
How many can sleep on site?
Twenty-nine, across the three houses. Everyone else stays in hotels nearby and we run the shuttles.
Do we have to take the whole estate?
Yes, and for a minimum of three nights. For a wedding it is never shared.
Can we marry legally here?
Not on the lawn. The civil ceremony is at a town hall and we handle every document, including the Nulla Osta, plus the interpreter. The ceremony on the estate is symbolic.
We want a catholic wedding.
Then start now. Allow six months for the file to go through your parish, your diocese and the Vicariate of Rome.
Do you welcome same-sex couples?
Yes.
Can we bring our own suppliers?
Yes, apart from catering, drinks and the rain tent, which come from the estate and its partner. There are no other exclusives.
Is there a menu tasting?
No. The estate does not offer one. We know the chef's cooking and choose with you.
What happens if it rains?
Forty guests move indoors. More than forty go under the estate's Crystal tent, a transparent marquee from their exclusive partner, reserved in advance against a non-refundable deposit and confirmed or released four days before, with the forecast in hand.
How late can we party?
Music outdoors until 1 am, then indoors with no limit.
Are children welcome?
Yes, and we arrange childcare. Neither pool is fenced, so this is not optional in our view.
Can we bring the dog?
Yes.
Is it accessible?
Step-free access to all three houses, and every bedroom in Casale Sant'Antonio is on the ground floor.
Sparklers, drones, confetti?
Sparklers, cold fountains, petals, candles and drones, yes. Fireworks, rice and confetti, no.
Parking?
About ten cars, with a field behind the estate for a coach. We recommend shuttles for guests in hotels.
Are the pools heated?
No. Best swimming from late May to September.
When should we marry here?
May to September, and a weekday in May or September is both cheaper and better. Other months on request.
What will guests do all weekend?
Golf next door, horses ten minutes away, cycling the Appian Way, a tasting at L'Orto di Alberico, a cooking class, Castel Gandolfo and the Castelli Romani, or a day in Rome. We book all of it.
Why not just book the estate ourselves?
You can. The estate gives you the houses, the beds and the food. The paperwork, the suppliers, the design, the hotels and shuttles, the rain plan, the budget and the day itself are the rest of the wedding, and they happen in Italian.
first step
Let's see whether it is yours
Marina, who founded WOWITALY, answers every inquiry herself. The first video call is with Katerina, it costs nothing, and it is not a sales call.
Tell us the dates you are holding, how many people you want around you and what you would like your guests to say about the weekend afterwards. That last one tells us more than the budget does.
We will check the estate's availability for your dates, and set up a call. On it you get our honest read on whether Casale del Gallo is the right house for your wedding, real numbers for your date, and, if it is not the right house, the two or three that are.
The Baroque salons of Palazzo Borghese in the heart of Rome, a Gallery of Mirrors from 1678 and one long table for up to forty, ten minutes from the Campidoglio.
A terraced garden designed by Valadier in the heart of Rome, where Picasso and Cocteau once picked oranges from their windows, and one long table for the people you love most.
A cardinal's villa with frescoes by Panini in the hills where the Popes spend their summers, a terrace looking out over Rome, and the airport twenty minutes away.
Prices updated October 2026 · by Marina
