The Social Sanctuary is the gathering place of The Conscious Club™. A place to read, to listen, to sit in conversation with other guests and with the people working at the frontline of restoration.
Evenings by the fire, an afternoon with a book, and the season’s figures read out by our research team.
Common ground, and a common cause.
Four percent of what your room earns goes to restoration. Committed before you arrive, recorded after you leave.
Four percent of revenue, not of profit. The figure sits in the cost base, so a difficult season falls on the estate and the mandate holds.
Sixteen Sanctuaries at the opening, twenty-four when the ruined farmhouse is finished, and seventy hectares from the first day.
The Founding Ledger closes on 30 June 2027, twelve months before the doors open in summer 2028. After that date no position is created at these rates again.
The first are the ones who make the rest possible.
A 5-year validity window commencing from Agaporia’s official opening.
A structural departure from the commercial calendar that locks in foundational value for a half-decade of restoration, shielded from market adjustments.
Your Sovereign Credits activate when your internal cadence demands. The Biological Engine™ responds on your terms, not the industry’s.
A Tuscan hill of its own, abandoned farmland on every side, open all the way to Montepulciano on the ridge beyond. No sound at any hour. After dark, more stars than we had seen in years.
By the time we walked back down, the decision had been made.
Seventy hectares beside the Val d’Orcia. An olive grove a century old, two agricultural sheds, and a ruined farmhouse. In 2028 this becomes a five-star regenerative estate.
The first stays are two years away. A small number of people are already on the ledger that opens the estate, and it closes on 30 June 2027.
A world in which Nature has standing is coming. Written into law, the way our own rights are.
Agaporia is one hillside working towards that future. Every stay that leaves more life behind brings such a world closer.
The health of the earth and human prosperity are one measure.
Every decision is put to the same test twice. Once for the guest, once for the land. A yes to only one is a no.
That single rule built the estate, chose the materials, wrote the menu and decided what Agaporia declines to do.
We always choose the option that serves Nature and people alike.
Nature is the primary protagonist. Seventy hectares beside the Val d’Orcia, sixteen of them handed back to the wild and counted season by season.
We gave that measurement a name. Nature Asset Value records what this land holds in living terms, and follows the figure year on year.
Nature keeps the score.
Three directions, and each will be held by an organisation that has spent decades bringing Nature back and defending the people who depend on her.
The conversations are under way. Nothing is signed, and each partner will be named on this page once the signing is done.
Three places, still empty.
Choosing to stay at Agaporia is an intentional step into our ecosystem, an invitation to align your own vitality with planetary renewal. Selecting your private shelter activates our 4% financial mandate, directly funding our strategic alliances with the Jane Goodall Institute, Sea Shepherd Global, and Save the Children.
Twenty-four Restorative Sanctuaries, single storey, each opening on to seventy hectares.
You arrive through greenery. The buildings are set so low into the hillside that you meet the olive grove before you are greeted at the reception.
The land begins where your private terrace ends.
Each Sanctuary restores the inhabitant as it regenerates the land.
You leave with the record of what your stay returned. The Steward Community is for guests who want to remain involved afterwards.
There is no fee and no threshold. What we ask for instead is your willingness to help build a world in which Nature has standing.
Prosperity is only as resilient as the world that hosts it.
The estate is a living instrument of restoration, where Nature is a primary participant in your recovery. In the rewilded zones, you meet a living system that amplifies its own life-force, a pulse that grounds your energy.
Nature’s unmanaged sovereignty is the condition under which your own returns.
Restoration is a daily practice. A rotating schedule of natural immersions eases your descent from modern noise, unfolding across each day of your residency.
From dawn movement to guided presence within the agroforestry corridors, these rituals belong to your stay. They strip away the unnecessary and reveal what was always underneath.
Twenty-four Restorative Sanctuaries. A spa built on the Dharana Protocol™. Three places to eat from one garden, and a cantina below ground, where the temperature holds itself.
Around them, seventy hectares under measurement, a working farm, and a research centre. Opening in 2028.
A working estate that happens to be five-star.
Pascal Steenhuis spent twenty-two years running luxury hotels, most of them at Michelin level, and left because he could no longer defend what the model costs.
Agaporia is what he did next.
Becoming nature positive is larger than this estate
The Dharana Protocol™ is the framework the whole estate is built on. Eight dimensions of restoration decided the walls, the farming, the kitchen and the spa before the first drawing was made.
Our daily practices, from sunrise meditation to forest walks, come with your stay. You slow down, and then notice how long it has been.
Your wellbeing came before the foundations.
Days That Compound Each Retreat runs three, five or seven days of bodily ritual, restorative food and time on the land. Three is enough to take home. Seven is enough to change the shape of a year. Nature, silence and connection are the instruments. There is nothing to install and nothing to bring in. The […]
Nine Immersions, One Land Nature is the protagonist. These nine immersions place you in direct, active contact with the living estate, each one a precise entry point into the biological loop. Under the authority of the land stewards, ecological literacy deepens within ancient woodlands and regenerative fields. The biological loop, genuinely inhabited.
Eight questions were asked before the architect drew a line. What does a guest need in order to sleep deeply, to move freely, to eat well, to breathe clean air, to be still, to be in good company, to be outdoors, and to know that being here matters?
The answers built this estate. What they produced is a place you feel before you understand. You will leave restored.
Nature’s energy and the rhythm of your body were never two.
Hemp, lime, straw, sandstone, clay and mycelium. Everything in these walls was alive, or was already on this hillside.
One season ago part of your room was standing in a field. What is around you now is half a metre thick, warm to the hand in winter and cool through August.
Sound goes into the wall and does not come back. What is left in your room is the stillness you have been looking for.
Beneath The Surface For the Etruscans who farmed this land, being well and being beautiful were the same condition. Nature supplied both. Everything they used on the body came from ground they could see from the door. Our restorative ingredients are still the same, and they will be harvested on this estate when the season […]
Farming begins beneath the surface. Under every field lies a network of fungal thread that moves water and minerals between plants which never touch each other. One afternoon with a plough destroys that network. Rebuilding takes years.
When the soil improves, the crop follows. The density in a tomato and the depth in an oil are decided by what is alive underneath, long before harvest.
Twenty-four Restorative Sanctuaries. Ground-level suites, each open to the land, and each given generous space before anything else.
They will rise where the two sheds and the fallen farmhouse stand today. No open ground is broken.
Their walls start as a crop. Straw, hemp and lime, standing in a field one year and holding up a roof the next.
Each Sanctuary restores the inhabitant as it regenerates the land.
The Essential Entry into Dharana For those arriving without a residential stay, The Day Retreat is your entry into the Dharana Protocol™, from nine in the morning until six in the evening. The day is built following the estate’s own rhythm. The light, the garden, the table, and the silence that only recovering land produces. […]
The Dharana Protocol™ asks a room to do real work on the body of the person inside it.
Each Sanctuary will be shaped for genuine rest. Single storey, open to the land on one side, and given over to generous space before anything else.
The quiet of Nature has always been the treatment. Natural light, and every material in the room, in service of that one idea.
Sixteen hectares are out of production for good. We undid what the old farming left behind, and since then our only work has been to measure what returns.
Left alone, those sixteen hectares are already deciding what belongs. The rewilding zone is the baseline everything else at Agaporia answers to.
We stopped, and watched.
The Deepest Position In The First Circle A Titan Pillar is a stake in the estate itself. A named sector of the rewilding, a building that does not exist yet, three nights with the gates closed behind you, or a decade of return. Each one is recorded in the Founding Ledger and measured through Return […]
A dining room above the valley, a pool bar through the afternoon, and an enoteca set into the hillside. The dining room and the pool bar eat from one garden. The enoteca pours what the region grows.
Ricotta made that morning. Figs still warm from the tree. Oil from a grove that was old before the estate had a name. Nothing on the plate will have travelled further than the path up from the beds.
We grow for ourselves. The harvest goes to the kitchens, our guests, and the people who work on the estate.
Some evenings there is one long table only, shared by guests, neighbours and locals.
Nature writes the menu. We take the dictation.
She wrote the finest cookbook there is. In summer, a plate of tomatoes that need nothing but oil and salt, or saffron courgettes with almonds, crisp oregano and Tuscan yogurt salsa. In winter, grilled radicchio with rosemary, wild capers and pomegranate vinaigrette, or a celeriac parmigiana slow-baked since morning.
The vegetable is the centre of the plate. The rest of the ingredients are chosen to suit.
Seventy hectares under measurement. Fifty-four to be farmed regeneratively, sixteen given back to the wild.
Those sixteen are left alone permanently. We let the water return, took out what the old farming left, and stopped. They exist so the farmed hectares can be understood, because a farm without a reference point is guessing. We intend to find out.
The record starts in April 2026. We walked the ground and wrote down every living thing we found, and every decision since is measured against that page.
The land is already recovering. The terrace comes later.
Three Experiences, One Soil Three settings, three ways to enjoy the estate, and the same soil arrives at each. Orsina, on the terrace above the valley, where the light fades and dinner runs late. Follonico, at the pool, where the afternoon goes slowly. Zabella, in the cellar, for the wine and what Tuscany takes as […]
We think underground is where a cantina belongs. With very little help from us, the ground gives a steady temperature, the humidity a cork needs, and the shelter from daylight a bottle ages in.
Zabella will be the estate’s enoteca, set into the hillside beside the cantina. Your tasting can begin where the wine was made.
Alongside our own future vintages, the cellar will hold small growers from inside the Short Circuit. Every one of them known to us personally, certified biodynamic or making natural wine at a level that inspires us.
For those who want the mechanics first.
What is being built across seventy hectares, how Nature Asset Value™ and Return on Regeneration™ are calculated, and the path to B Corp certification and EarthCheck benchmarking.
The Legacy Prospectus states exactly what a position means, financially and permanently.
Four percent of room revenue goes to planetary and social restoration, committed before you arrive and recorded after you go. Your room rate already carries the commitment.
Bringing Nature back, defending the oceans, and protecting the children who will inherit both. Your stay reaches all three, and you will be shown exactly how far.
Every stay leaves the world more alive.
The olive grove is a century old, and has come through drought, frost, war and many changes of ownership.
Everything planted has to survive whatever the climate becomes. The indigenous species and old local varieties we choose have already proved they can live on this soil, in this rainfall, through this heat.
A hillside that can take the next hundred years.
Two hectares of permaculture at the centre of the estate, one minute from the kitchen door.
Picked at eight, cooked at nine, served on the terrace directly above the beds it came from. What the kitchen cannot use goes into the compost and back into the same ground.
Stand in the middle and the whole circle is around you.
Nature is the primary protagonist in your restoration. Seventy hectares of Tuscan land, sixteen of them under active rewilding, are the source your body returns to.
The biological loop closes when you are in the land itself, hands and feet and breath. What comes back to her is counted, season by season, and you leave with the record of your own share.
Nature recovers. You recover with her.
The Conscious Club™ is where you become part of our restoration mandate. Your stay carries that commitment beyond the estate, towards a world where Nature has standing. Your room rate already holds the sum.
A fixed four percent of room revenue goes to the restoration of land, ocean and human life, committed before you arrive and recorded after you leave.