Tuscany: Insider guides (Ultimi inserimenti)
Lucca
It's one of the Tuscany's little gems. Rich of art and culture, Lucca is famous for piazza dell'anfiteatro (roman heritage), the medieval walls, the cathedral of San Martino. Lucca is the ideal town for walking, biking and shopping.
Places
THE BOTTEGA BARACCHI
The Bottega is a new concept shop , something delicous among restaurant, wine bar ans a shop where you can find the best of Tuscan gastronomic excellences... a place to taste...
Tel. +39 0575 613874
Restaurants
Trekking to Chiusure for the Artichoke Fair
Each year around April 25 in Chiusure there's the traditional Artichoke Fair: an opportunity to taste good dishes made with this ingredient. An enjoyable way to reach this nice village is the path that starts from San Giovanni d'Asso.
Activities
Outdoor drawing
Draw beautiful spots of the Tuscany countryside, going outdoor to visit the most beautiful sites of Poggibonsi area.
Activities
Cala Violina
Cala Violina beach is perhaps the most beautiful bay in all of Tuscany. Wild and unspoilt is the perfect place to live out of season. You can walk with a white road with perfect views for running, hiking and biking
Tel. +39056637023
Places
Il Sorbo Allegro
Creative cuisine, using the finest of locally sourced ingredients. A faultless and well-researched wine list with plenty of seriously Super Tuscans!
Restaurants
Viewpoint near Monticchiello
A few hundred meters from Montichiello, the dirt road that leads to wisdom you will find a glimpse of cypress trees and in the background the Monte Amiata. Beautiful location at sunset, the earth is red. Superb.
Tel. +39 0578 755167
Places
Colline Pisane
Traversed by a wonderful "Wine road", which passes by the vineyards and farms where the region's excellent wine and oilve oils are produced, Le Colline Pisane are a must for both nature and wine lovers!
Places
Handcrafted wrought iron
The real works of art in wrought iron you can buy at the craftsman Biagiotti in Pienza. Decorative objects, chandeliers, candlesticks and the possibility to order custom made items.
Tel. +39 0578 748478
Shopping
Wonderful copper handicrafts
One of the few craftsmen who still produces handmade beautiful items made of copper. The real works of art can be purchased from the "Renowned Rameria Mazzetti" which exports all over the world.
Tel. +39 0578 758753
Shopping
Vespa tours
On the road with a Vespa, discovering the land of Chianti, enjoing the spectacular view of Tuscany hills and its ancient villages and tasting local organic products.
Activities
3 TYPES OF CHEESE COURSE
from 5 lt of fresh sheep milk we will teach you how to make 3 types of cheese. Robiola, Primo Sale and Ricotta!
Tel. +393294250285
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Ristorante Frank
Creative fish cuisine and excellent value for money
Tel. +39 0587 931341
Restaurants
LA TERRABRUGA
Our popular ceramics called "cocci", are made with the traditional process that still work in the laboratory in the historic centre of Cortona, where several kind of products was born over the years according to the market needs.
Tel. +39 0575 604405
Shopping
Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey
Lovely abbey of Benedictine monks in the heart of nature. Worth a visit for its magnificent location for both the magnificent frescoes.
Places
Osteria Il Granaio
Friendly and relaxed restaurant serving traditional Tuscan cuisine
Tel. +39 0577 726975
Restaurants
Walk Montichiello Pienza
A beautiful walk through the Val d'Orcia departing from and arriving in Montichiello Pienza. All information and a map of the route you can ask her to Francis contacting at info@lacasadiadelina.it
Tel. +39 0578 755167
Activities
Il Palazzone - Az. Agricola Vitivinicola
A small farm, a great Brunello.
Places
Bike Tours
Go biking for 15/20 km with a mountain bike along incredible paths, chosen time by time according the bikers' group. During the tour you can also visit the Senese cellars and enjoy wine & food tasting.
Activities
St Antimo and Monte Oliveto Abbeys
At short distance from our hamlet there are two beautiful abbeys: S. Antimo, among Brunello vineyards, and Monte Oliveto Maggiore, with its frescoed cloister. Two perfect settings to listen to Gregorian chants.
Places
SPONTANEOUS HERB COLLECTION COURSE
A walk among our meadows with a botanist. Collection, legends, properties of spontaneous plants. Practical explanations on how to use them to make natural dyes and inks, curative properties, aromatherapy and traditional herbal medicine.
Activities
PRIVATE YOGA COURSE
1 hour and a half of a private Yoga class with a qualified teacher.
Tel. +393294250285
Activities
Pontedera Piaggio Museum
The history of the Vespa motorbike and more in a museum created in the old Piaggio factory.
Tel. +39 0587 27171
Places
Trekking
Green meadows, woods, high peaks,the Park of the Apuan Alps offers various types of excursions ,colours and emotions to who chooses to discover the beauty of a very special landscape, where the mountains reach out towards the coast.
Activities
La Polveriera
The peculiarity of La Polveriera is to be surrounded by a pine green and above all have a sea from the transparent water, shallow and almost always hot.
Places
SYNERGIC ORGANIC AGRICULTURE COURSES
Synergistic agriculture consists of the art of cultivating, leaving the land to be made according to the method of Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese microbiologist and farmer.
Tel. +393294250285
Activities
Boat trips
The Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Sea, on the crest of the waves towards enchanting places!
To make your days even more special we organise day excursions to discover a length of coast that stretches from Viareggio to Cinque Terre via Portovenere
Activities
Bottega Baracchi
The Bottega Baracchi is an innovative concept shop halfway between a wine bar and a store, a promise that has as its primary essence, excellence, in all its various forms.
Tel. +39 575 613874
Restaurants
Amazing trees (perfect for a picnic)
In our area there are two wonderful old trees: The Magpies' Oak south of Pienza and the big holm on the Pieve a Salti road. Perfect places to organize a picnic with friends.
Places
Tuscan Saffron
To create unique and delicious dishes. Saffron, special and precious ingredient can be purchased at the company Crocus Brandi in San Quirico d'Orcia, which cultivates it in the unspoilt Val d'Orcia, in Tuscany.
Tel. +39 0577 897726
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