Climate positive Innovation incubator for businesses, universities and sport clubs through events, retreats, residencies and practical experimentation.
Everything,
Everywhere,
Everyone,
All At Once.
Inspiring
Our approach to corporate hospitality and event design starts from our client’s brand and values. Global awareness and mountain magic combined.
International
Our co founders have forty years collective experience in corporate culture evolution in the EU, UK, China and the Middle East in construction both with public and private sectors.
Wild
Experience a safe haven for new visions to emerge surrounded by the pristine and regenerating beauty of majestic mountain forests with snow capped peaks and crystal rivers.
Circular
Our Basecamp is mostly self designed and self built. We work with a variety of materials from locally sourced wood to recycled 3D printed plastic. Craft and digital tech hand in hand.
Open your eyes to a better vision of the future.
Award Winning, Regenerative Mountain Retreat
Nested at the heart of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines National Park, Girotondo Basecamp is a welcoming, inclusive and essential hospitality hub. It hosts relaxing holidays immersed in nature as well as corporate events, health retreats, live music gigs, poetry workshops, private parties and martial arts classes. It has a 100 sqm multipurpose hall, a rooftop terrace, six bedrooms and a gastro pub. Book now!
Circular Economy Design Studio & FabLab
A fabrication laboratory and design studio specialised in re-use, re-cycling and up-cycling. We curate design and construction workshops in partnership with CAIRE, Politecnico di Milano and IUAV Venezia University. Come and co-create unique design pieces and products converting waste into beauty.
Regenerative Business Startup Incubator
Naming, branding, financial planning, marketing, corporate networking and business advice for environmentally and socially responsible startups in collaboration with Confcooperative Terre d’Emilia. We offer all-round support for responsible businesses interested in a regenerative approach to Earth-Life-Work balance with the highest positive social impact. Coffee?
Our Productions
Mountain View
Our bespoke co-creation event programme.
Your dreams, desires and requirements ignite our creativity to create together unique. impactful and memorable events. From corporate retreats, academic seminars to arts workshops supported by the awe inspiring beauty of mountain forests and star-lit nights.
Recharge
Unplug, breathe, reconnect.
Gift yourself with our gorgeous wellness retreats available in one week or one long weekend duration. Immerse yourself in the calm wilderness of pure mountain forest to disconnect from the stress of daily life and re-connect with yourself, others and the planet through Yoga, Forest Bathing, Qi Gong, and Grounding.
Judo Mountain
Self confidence, skills and gender equality through Martial Arts.
Learn self confidence, respect for others and collaboration with our FIJLKAM certified Judo course in an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere with the technical expertise of Ryu Judo Reggio Emilia open to all children 4 – 13 years old.
Hello Matey!
Learning English can be as fun as playing with your London friends.
Hello Matey! is designed to introduce English language in the most natural way: just as your children would pick up words and expressions whilst playing with their friends in London.
FitFam!
A gentle fitness class for both parents whilst the kids learn English with Hello Matey!
Running in parallel with Hello Matey! we offer a fitness class designed for parents to de-stress, tone up and enjoy a well deserved break from the childcare. FitFam! combines Yoga, Primal Movement and Aerobics and can be as soft or hard as one fancies.
Awards
2025 Laboratorio Aperto Reggio Emilia
The Girotondo Basecamp was selected for the StartUp Accelerator Programme “Nuovi Orientamenti di Impresa” by Comune di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia Open Lab, Unimore and REI Foundation for the Girotondo Impact Female Entrepeneurship Incubator.
2024 International Rural Development Award
The Girotondo Basecamp has been short-listed for the International Rural Development Award by ISTAO.
2024 Restructura
The Girotondo Basecamp won the “From Worst to Best Award” by the Turin Construction Festival Restructura.
2023 Invitalia Bando Borghi
The Girotondo Basecamp was granted a second round of funding by Invitalia Bando Borghi 2023 for the Circular Economy Fabrication Laboratory Girontondo Atelier.
2023 Gal Innovative Hospitality Grant
The Girotondo Basecamp has won 1st place in the GAL Innovative Hospitality Grant 2023.
Giro, girotondo,
Casca il mondo
Casca la terra,
Tutti giù per terra.
Turn, turn around
The world is falling,
The ground is falling,
Everyone down and touch the ground.
Giro-girotondo is an Italian nursery rhyme, children sing it holding hands and dancing in a circle.
In a time of great political and culture instability (the world is falling) we start from the physical contact with the earth, with the woods, with the rivers and with the wind (touch the ground) to find alternative paradigms and solutions. Circular and inclusive thinking is key (dancing in a circle, holding hands).
Children are our future, their immagination and their games inspire our actions. If we gather together through innovative, collaborative design, we’ll survive and thrive.
Let the mountain rejuvenate your
mind, body and soul.
Here, Now
Northern Italy, immersed in the National Park of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, a UNESCO Heritage Site, on the border between Emilia Romagna and Tuscany.
We are based in Cervarezza Terme (RE) along the SS63 route connecting Reggio Emilia with La Spezia and the sea. Only one hour from the high speed station Reggio Emilia AV and 1h15′ from Cinque Terre.
Read our blog on how to get from London to here by train.
See you soon!
If you have any questions about our services, or you want to book a retreat send us an email or call us. Check also our social profile to keep you update!
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