Tuscany: Insider guides (Ultimi inserimenti)

Creative fish cuisine and excellent value for money

The Oltrarno is the southern part of the center of Florence, just south of the river Arno. In a few small streets you will find workshops oldest in Florence, here working silver, wood and producing the famous Florentine paper.

In San Gimignano is staging an exhibition of art of the highest level with the masterpieces of the twentieth century, Carlo Carra, Giorgio De Chirico and Renato Guttuso.

Creative cuisine, using the finest of locally sourced ingredients. A faultless and well-researched wine list with plenty of seriously Super Tuscans!

Friendly and relaxed restaurant serving traditional Tuscan cuisine

From the hotel, climb Mount Capanne, thickly wooded with chestnut groves. For a guided hike, there are organized excursions through the Tuscan Archipelago National Park and, for those who love exploring the countryside on horseback.

Siena, the city where he breathes a 'atmosphere that you can not find anywhere else, because its people have preserved the traditions of the fathers, such as those related to the Palio, renewing them every year.

Glinding across the water with the sun at your back: discovering Elba in kayak is a unique and relaxing way to explore this island's shores. Rental kayaks are available on the Sant'Andrea beach, and from here your adventure begins!

Lucia Volentieri is a gifted ceramist who creates Tuscany modular landscapes: visit her laboratory and learn how to recreate a miniature rural world and to turn it into a piece of art and of life.

We are on the route of the ancient and well-known Via Francigena, which was taken by pilgrims going from Canterbury to Rome in the Middle Ages.

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.

Enjoy delicious wines and fresh olive oli directly from the producer and a snack pause with typical products of Tuscany.

Tuscany Wine Store is not simply a wine shop but much more. You can choose fine handcraft products and excellente gastronomic specialities.

Unique historical re-enactment: in one day the three districts of the village of Scarlino challenge each other in multiple races, from archery to the parade, the award for the best decoration of the districts to running-race in costume.

Historical winery, here you can take guided tours, tasting and knowing the taste of good local wine

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.

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.

Home cooking cozy atmosphere

In summer there are many music festivals in our surroundings: Incontri in Terre di Siena; Estate Musicale Chigiana; Crete Senesi Festival; Harpsichord concerts by Piccola Accademia Montisi and the Opera Festival in S.Galgano Abbey.

At about 10 kilometers from Montalcino, a romantic Benedictine abbey where you can watch the masses with Gregorian chants of the monks.

Unesco World Heritage Site, located on top of a hill is a strange and fascinating church in Val d'Orcia.

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.

This is the theme park dedicated to Pinocchio, where children together their parents can relive the adventures of the famous wooden muppet.

Founded in the early fourteenth century by Blessed Bernardo Tolomei the impressive Benedictine houses of Renaissance frescoes by Signorelli and Bazzi called Sodoma

from 5 lt of fresh sheep milk we will teach you how to make 3 types of cheese. Robiola, Primo Sale and Ricotta!

Typical Tuscan cuisine and pizza

Castiglione perched on a promontory overlooking the sea and the Maremma Coast and on top of which there is an Aragonese castle. The shady paths alternate with pine forests. And then Castiglione is famous for its nightlife and wine bars.

If you like "The English Patient", you cannot miss the visit of S.Anna in Camprena monastery, just out of our hamlet. This was the location of all the Tuscan scenes of the popular movie. Also remarkable the refectory frescoed by Sodoma.

Enclosed between Lerici and Portovenere, it is an enchanting stretch of coast line, dotted with tiny fishing villages.Tourist boats depart from La Spezia providing a sea tour, surely the best way to admire its nature and colours .

t's the oldest historical pharmacy in Europe, active for almost four centuries, and also one of the oldest commercial ever in Florence.Today the old "pharmacy" no more pharmacy, but perfume shop and herbalist's shop.