Set on two floors in a twelfth century as a fortified farm, this house was once intended as a Lombard fortress to guard the fertile Arno Valley around Florence. Today it is the perfect holiday home rental for up to 5 persons with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. When the new[…]

Villa Michaela, formerly Villa Nottolini, belongs to the Rhode family and is located at the foot of Mount Zano, a short distance from the “parish” of Vorno.The original building dates back to the 1800th century, but over the years there have been many changes and the current appearance of the[…]

  When Villa Orlando was built in 1869 as a hunting lodge in then fashionable neo- Gothic style, with pointed arches and slate roof, Torre del Lago was a modest hamlet of fishermen and hunters with thatched huts. The crenelated tower is the most striking feature of the Villa: from[…]

The Villa Poggio Lieto, located in Fiesole on Via del Salviatino 17, sits on a ridge overlooking Fiesole to the west and a valley leading to Settignano to the east. Its first inhabitant, in the mid 1400s, was a certain Tommaso De’ Medici. The villa then passed through various hands[…]

Villa Santa Giulia is situated in the Northern part of Maremma in Tuscany, in the inland close to the Gulf of Follonica, an area of the Tyrrhenian coast extending between the promontory of Piombino and Punta Ala in front of Elba Island. The Villa is 800 metres far from the[…]

In Orbicciano, summer holidays were spent. It was the holiday home of the Cenami Spada family. It is located halfway up the hill of Val Freddana, a fresh valley also in mid-August, at the bottom of which runs the road that, in less than half an hour, leads to Lucca.The[…]