Dimora Della Gioia — Founding Members

The Vision

A place where joy is not a destination — it is the air itself

There is a building in Umbria that has been waiting. 125 years old, built from the same stone as the hills surrounding it, it sits on 20 hectares of land so quietly alive that the locals say it has its own energy.

We found it. And we are waking it up as Dimora Della Gioia — a wellness and mindfulness retreat center where everything, from the bread baked each morning in the ancient wood-burning oven to the healing sessions offered by our team of practitioners, is designed to help you remember who you are.

This is not a hotel. This is not a spa. This is a place of transformation — farm-to-table nourishment, ancient healing modalities, sensory deprivation, fire, sound, silence, and the kind of food that makes you weep with gratitude. All of it held in one of the most beautiful landscapes on earth.

"Our guests know that coming to Dimora Della Gioia is not a luxury — it is an important investment in their healthier future."

Why Now

We have one shot
at this building.

We have been in escrow on this property since November 2025. Our EU government funding is approved and on its way — but Italian bureaucracy moves at its own pace. The owner has been extraordinarily patient, but that window is closing.

"That is why the founding circle exists — and why it exists right now. Not as a marketing campaign. As the bridge between a dream and a reality that is already approved, already funded, already waiting."

Our Invitalia funding of €1,495,000 at 0% interest is formally approved (Project NIT20006358). The property is extraordinary. The team is assembled. The only thing standing between this vision and reality is completing the purchase — and that is exactly what founding members make possible.

Become a Founding Member

The Estate

The property exists.
You can see it now.

This is not a concept. The building stands. The land breathes. We are in escrow. You are booking something real.

900 m² · 125 Years Old

15 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms. Ancient stone architecture. Sleeps 34 guests.

20 Hectares of Land

5 hectares arable. Vegetable gardens. 30 chickens. Our own well with drinking-quality water.

Farm-to-Table Kitchen

125-year-old wood-burning oven. Michelin consulting chefs. Flour ground and bread baked daily.

Full Wellness Program

Yoga studio, sensory deprivation rooms, massage, homeopathy, sound therapy, fire-walking.

Pool · Sauna · Cold Plunge

Panoramic pool with pool house, sauna and cold plunge with views across Umbrian hills.

Solar · Self-Sufficient

Energy self-sufficient with solar. Rainwater harvesting. Zero disposables. Everything composted.

Your money is protected.
This is how.

We have structured this campaign so that every founding member carries zero financial risk. Here is exactly what happens to your money.

Notary Escrow

Your payment goes directly into a licensed Italian notary's escrow account — not to us. It sits there, protected, until milestones are verified.

Milestone Release

Funds will be released only when we have the full amount required for the property purchase. If Dimora Della Gioia does not open for any reason, your full amount is returned to you. No exceptions, no conditions.

Full Refund Guarantee

If Dimora Della Gioia does not open for any reason, your full amount is returned to you. No exceptions, no conditions.

Additionally, our project holds a formally approved €1,495,000 loan at 0% interest from Invitalia — the EU-backed Italian National Investment Agency. Project ID: NIT20006358. This is not a dream. This is happening.

Founding Member Program

Choose your place
in the story

Once Dimora Della Gioia opens, this founding circle closes forever. There will never again be a way to become a founder. These prices, these privileges, this access — they exist only now.

Community

Amico della Gioia

Friend of Joy

€150

Pure founding membership

Name engraved on the Founders' Wall — forever
Invitation to the pre-opening Harvest Dinner, Autumn 2027
Quarterly Letters from the Land — mailed physically from Umbria
20% lifetime discount on all future bookings
First access to all future retreat programs

Join as Amico

Unlimited · Community tier

We are healers,
builders, and dreamers

Four people united by one mission: to build the most transformative retreat center in Italy.

Jozsef Nemeth

Founder & CEO

20 years building businesses in the USA. Restaurant GM, CEO of a $15M company. Meditation teacher. Yoga practitioner. Two darkroom retreat experiences. The man behind the vision, always on-site.

Laszlo Nemeth

Head of Healing Arts

30 years medical massage therapy. 20 years homeopathic healing. VP, Hungarian Homeopathic Healing Arts Association. Fire-walking retreat leader. Biofield Tuning practitioner. 40+ corporate events for Coca-Cola.

Laszlo Bartha

Facilities & Spiritual Guide

A decade in Colorado ski resort hospitality. 10+ years running retreats in the Amazonian jungles with native healers. Aromatherapy, herbal medicine, plant medicine. Retreat facilitator and spiritual guide. Brings an international network of wellness travelers.

Marianthi Bartha

Yoga & Wellbeing Director

15 years yoga teaching. Trained in India. Yin Yoga, Vinyasa, Hatha, Medicinal Restorative Yoga. Pilates teacher. Skilled Mediterranean cook. Connects warmly with guests from every corner of the world.

A Letter from Jozsef

Why I left everything
for a stone farmhouse in Umbria

For most of my adult life, I built other people's dreams. I grew a company from 25 people to 120. I managed restaurants where I gave everything to making strangers feel welcome at my table. And all the while, somewhere underneath the spreadsheets and the staff meetings and the 60-hour weeks, something in me kept whispering: there is another way to live.

I found it in meditation. In yoga. In two stays in darkroom retreat centers where everything — light, phone, schedule, noise — was stripped away, and what was left was just me, and the quiet, and something that felt like joy.

I started asking: what if there was a place that held all of this together? The healing, the food, the land, the silence, the fire? What if that place was in Italy, in Umbria, in the most beautiful countryside on earth? What if a 125-year-old building was waiting to be exactly that?

Then I found the building. And I knew.

Dimora Della Gioia — the House of Joy — is what I want to do for the rest of my life. To create a place where people come broken, scattered, exhausted — and leave remembering who they are. We have an extraordinary team assembled around this dream. We have EU government approval and funding. We have the property in escrow. We have everything except the founding community that will make the purchase possible.

That is you, if you feel it. Not a hotel guest. Not a donor. A founder. Someone whose name will be on the wall of this building for as long as it stands — which, given that it has already stood for 125 years, may be a very long time indeed.

I am grateful beyond words for every person who joins us.

— Jozsef Nemeth, Founder

DimoraDella Gioia

A place where joy is not a destination — it is the air itself

We have one shotat this building.

The property exists.You can see it now.

Your money is protected.This is how.

Choose your placein the story

We are healers,builders, and dreamers

Why I left everythingfor a stone farmhouse in Umbria