Category: Villa al Boschiglia

Discounted Villa for rent in Tuscany

Discounted Villa for rent in Tuscany

Thinking about you and receiving requests every day about the possibility to rent a villa in Tuscany with special price, we decided to let you stop here!

!!! FIRST MINUTE – 20% DISCOUNT ON ANY AVAILABLE WEEKS!!! Discounted Villa for rent in Tuscany!!! Just for you… 🙂

We’re currently running a new special offering to all new bookings a 20% discount on our 2010 fees!
This special will not last too long so take the chance to spend your holiday here in Tuscany saving up to 20% of the standard weekly rate!
For more information and details just contact us at Villaalboschiglia.com and CasaleSodini.com!

Villa al Boschiglia Perks – Experience The Mediterranean Diet – Tuscan Style

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Soft, oozing mozzarella, rich golden, extra virgin olive oil, fresh basil, aromatic tomatoes, pungent garlic, Tuscan bread fresh from the oven, makes your mouth water just thinking of them. These are the colors, textures and flavors of “The Mediterranean Diet – Tuscan Style”. Now close your eyes and imagine relaxing by the pool, washing it down with a glass of fine Tuscan wine in the company of family and friends and you’ve discovered a lifestyle secret that Tuscans have known about for centuries.

Villa al Boschiglia is proud to offer you the chance to savour – “The Mediterranean Diet – Tuscan Style”.

Book the Villa during December 2008 for a stay at any time in 2009 and we’ll include “The Mediterranean Diet – Tuscan Style” program of events at no extra cost!

During your stay –

  • Our expert will explain all about “The Mediterranean Diet”, its health benefits, weight loss benefits and most importantly, how great it tastes!
  • You’ll visit a local market, help choose seasonal ingredients, including fruit, veg, pulses, garlic, cheeses, oil etc
  • Learn to cook simple, healthy, tasty Tuscan food (and eat it after!) in the company of our in house chef.
  • Learn about Olive Oil, guided tasting by a local expert. Great fun, great taste.
  • Learn about Tuscan Wines – our wine expert will teach you how to enjoy the fine wines of Tuscany. He’ll also explain the health benefits of a glass or two of Tuscan Red a day.
  • Exercise – our personal trainer will explain how regular, light exercise fits into a healthy Mediterranean lifestyle. Exercise with him, round (or in!) the pool. Walk with him in the Tuscan hills. Join him as you cycle round the historic, Lucca city walls.
  • When you leave, you’ll receive a Mediterranean Diet cook book and goody pack full of Tasty Tuscan products to take home with you.

We think you’ll agree our “Mediterranean Diet – Tuscan Style” package will be interesting, fun, tasty and healthy! You never know it could even change your life(style) for ever!

For more details or to book the package, please contact Samuele Sodini at info@villaalboschiglia.com This offer is valid only if booked during Dec 2008.

Hurry, the number of offer weeks available is limited and they are sure to be snapped up quickly.

Tuscany, The year of the Olive

Olives, those beautiful silvery trees, have today become a visual metaphor for Italy.
Nevertheless, seldom does anyone come to Italy solely for the purpose of growing olives and making olive oil. Most foreign-born cultivators naively back into it somehow. Olives usually enter their lives on a ” bit of land ” just beyond the garden of their dream home, whether it be a humble farmhouse or a full-blown villa.
Those gnarled trunks look so expressively romantic.
The delicate leaves gently sea basking in the Mediterranean sun. The terraced groves are so suggestive of a living link across time to departed generations. Yes… but, wander into any local bar and take a look around at the old tuskers playing cards or arguing over this year’s olive crop and you’ll notice they’ve grown as gnarled as their trees.
Olive farming is indeed lovely work with long hours spent in solitary meditation, but it is also year-round hard work.
The year starts in Februarywith the cutting down of the undergrowth in the olive grove and fertilizing each tree. March and April are pruning time and burning of the cuttings. In May the trees go into bloom, dropping their tiny white flowers on the ground like a summer snow. June the undergrowth is cut again to prevent fire in the olive grove.
July and August is quit time while the olives are left to grow in the hot, dry summer. In late September, some additional light pruning and cutting undergorwth is again on the agenda.
October brings the laying of the nets. November, December and beyond is harvest time and taking the olives to the frantoio to make olive oil and January is clean up time – taking up and putting away the nets and equipment and, of course, enjoying the fruit of our labor!