A six-bedroom estate with a pool above the coast near Porto Ercole asks around €42,000 for a week in the first half of August, then settles to €22,000 in late May for the identical house. The Maremma is the wild, low-built southern edge of Tuscany, quieter and less polished than Chianti, and it prices on one season above all. The full structure, by pocket and season, with three worked examples.
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The number that matters first: €14,000 to €90,000 per week. That is the real spread for quality villas across the Maremma, and where you land turns on four things, in this order: the week of the summer, the pocket, the number of bedrooms, and whether the house is on or near the coast. The Maremma trades on being the un-touristed Tuscany, all umbrella pines, long beaches, and working estates, so the premium sits closer to the sea than to any famous village.
The Maremma runs a single, sharp apex. August fills the coast, with the Ferragosto fortnight around 15 August at the very top, two to three times the shoulder figure. The shoulder months of May, June, and September sit 35 to 55 percent below the peak, with warm sea and open beach clubs at either end of the summer. Winter is quiet and largely off-market for villa rentals, beyond the thermal pocket around Saturnia, which draws a year-round spa crowd.
Indicative weekly rates in euros for quality villas across the Maremma. Shoulder is May, June, and September. High is July and late August. Peak is the Ferragosto fortnight, quoted at the top of each band. Coastal estates near Monte Argentario sit above interior houses of the same size.
| House size | Shoulder (May, Jun, Sep) | High (Jul, late Aug) | Peak (Ferragosto) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 bedrooms | €14,000 to €20,000 | €19,000 to €28,000 | €24,000 to €36,000 |
| 5 bedrooms | €18,000 to €26,000 | €24,000 to €36,000 | €30,000 to €48,000 |
| 6 bedrooms | €24,000 to €34,000 | €32,000 to €46,000 | €40,000 to €62,000 |
| 7+ bedrooms | €34,000 to €48,000 | €46,000 to €66,000 | €58,000 to €90,000+ |
Bands reflect quality villas around Monte Argentario, Castiglione della Pescaia, Punta Ala, and the Capalbio interior, May 2026. Coastal estates with a pool and staff sit at the top of each band. Rates exclude any IVA and the soggiorno tax.
The premium pocket is Monte Argentario, the wooded promontory with Porto Ercole on one side and Porto Santo Stefano on the other, the Maremma’s most polished address and its yacht-set anchor. Villas here carry the highest rates and the shortest August availability, with sea on three sides and the smartest restaurants of the coast. Punta Ala and Castiglione della Pescaia hold the next tier, beach-club coast with golf and marina life, busy and well-served in summer.
Inland, the Capalbio and Magliano countryside is where the working-estate Maremma lives, big agricultural villas among vineyards and olive groves, more land and lower rates in exchange for a drive to the beach. The thermal hills around Saturnia, with the open hot springs and the spa hotels, draw a quieter, year-round crowd and let some of the most characterful farmhouses of all. The further you sit from Monte Argentario, the more estate you get for the euro, and the longer the run to dinner on the water.
This is the line that catches renters. A villa let privately on a short-term basis often falls under Italy’s flat-tax regime for residential lets and carries no IVA. A villa let through an agency or company that provides hotel-style services, by contrast, generally adds IVA at the reduced 10 percent accommodation rate. Two similar houses on the same week can therefore differ by a tenth purely on how they are let, so the useful question before you compare is whether the quoted rate is IVA-inclusive.
Each Tuscan comune sets its own tourist tax, the imposta di soggiorno, typically €1 to €5 per person per night and usually capped at around seven nights, with younger children exempt. The coastal Maremma comuni, Castiglione della Pescaia and Capalbio among them, set graduated tariffs by accommodation category and sit toward the upper end of that range for top houses. It is collected locally, often in cash on arrival, and added to the rate rather than built in.
The larger Maremma estates often come with a housekeeper and a caretaker, and a private chef is the standard summer upgrade. A chef runs roughly €350 to €600 per day plus food and market shopping. On a coastal villa, a daily beach-club arrangement and a boat day are the extras that most groups add, and both are worth pricing before arrival.
Expect a refundable deposit of €2,000 to €10,000 depending on the value of the house, taken by card hold or wire before arrival and returned within two to three weeks of checkout.
Each budget is built from the rate plus the lines that land on the invoice. In the Maremma the swing lines are whether the house carries IVA and whether you book a chef for the week.
Headline: €16,000 / wk (shoulder, privately let, no IVA).
Soggiorno tax (two guests, capped) €28. Provisioning €500. Half-day chef twice €700.
All-in: about €17,230 for the week, roughly €2,460 a night for a house that sleeps eight.
Headline: €38,000 / wk (high summer, agency-let, plus 10% IVA).
IVA (10%) €3,800. Soggiorno tax (ten guests, capped) €140. Chef three dinners €1,500 plus food €800.
All-in: about €44,240 for the week, roughly €6,320 a night for ten.
Headline: €72,000 / wk (Ferragosto, agency-let, plus 10% IVA, full staff option).
IVA (10%) €7,200. Soggiorno tax (fourteen guests, capped) €196. Chef for the week €3,500 plus food €2,200.
All-in: about €85,100 before boat days and gratuities.
Three levers move the all-in cost on a Maremma week, and one upgrade we would skip.
Take June or September over August. The sea is warm at both ends of the summer, the beach clubs are open, and the rate sits 35 to 55 percent below Ferragosto. For anyone not tied to the August school holidays, the shoulder is the single largest saving on the page, and the coast is far calmer.
Confirm how the house is let before you compare. A privately let villa with no IVA and an agency-let one adding 10 percent can look a tenth apart on identical product. Ask whether the rate is IVA-inclusive, then compare the all-in numbers.
Sit inland and drive to the water. A Capalbio or Magliano estate gives you far more land and a lower rate, with the beaches of the coast 20 to 40 minutes away. If your week is about the countryside and the pool as much as the sea, the interior is the value play.
What we would skip: a private-beach upgrade where the villa is inland. You will spend most days at the pool and a beach club, not on a stretch of sand you are paying a premium to claim. Put that money into the chef and a boat day instead.
Quality villas run from about €14,000 per week for a four-bedroom in the shoulder season to €90,000 or more for a large estate with a pool and staff near Monte Argentario in August. Most five to six-bedroom houses land between €20,000 and €45,000 per week in high summer.
August is the apex, with the Ferragosto fortnight around 15 August at the very top. Rates run roughly two to three times the May or September figure, and the best coastal villas near Porto Ercole and Castiglione della Pescaia book six to nine months ahead for the high-summer weeks.
It depends on who lets the house. A privately let short-term rental often falls outside IVA under Italy’s flat-tax regime, while a villa let by an agency or company providing hotel-style services typically adds 10 percent IVA. Two otherwise similar houses can differ by that 10 percent on the same week, so ask whether the rate is IVA-inclusive before comparing.
Each Tuscan municipality sets its own imposta di soggiorno, typically €1 to €5 per person per night and usually capped at around seven nights, with children under a set age exempt. Coastal Maremma comuni such as Castiglione della Pescaia and Capalbio sit toward the upper end for top-category accommodation. It is paid locally, often in cash, on top of the rate.
There is no large airport on the doorstep. Most visitors fly into Rome Fiumicino, about two hours by road to the southern Maremma, or Pisa, roughly an hour and a half to two hours to the north. The drive is part of the deal: the Maremma is the wild, low-built corner of Tuscany, and a car is essential once you arrive.
May, June, and September sit 35 to 55 percent below the August top, with warm sea, open beach clubs in June and September, and the countryside at its best. The thermal pocket around Saturnia also draws an autumn and spring crowd, so the shoulder is the value window for anyone avoiding the Ferragosto crush.
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