Tag: About Tuscany

Following the terrible events around l’Aquila at Eastertime, there is still an enormous need for funds to support the ongoing work of re-housing famiglie and returning the community to some kind of normality.
In Italy donations can be safely made to Red Cross Italy (CRI) either.
1.  By credit card on line through the CRI web site: www.cri.it/donazioni.html ( or any Red Cross site)
2.  By bank account Donation s to Conto Corrente Banacario n° 218020 at the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro filiale di Roma Bissolati, Tesoreria via San Nicola da Tolentino 67, Roma. Payments should be made out to Croce Rossa italiana, Via Toscana 12 – 00187 Roma. IBAN: IT66 C010 0503 3820 0000 0218 020. Indicate that payment is Pro Terremoto Abruzzo.
3.  Through the Post Office Donations to Conto Corrente Postale n. 300004 made out to Croce Rossa Italiana, Via Toscana 12  – 00187 Roma. IBAN: IT24 X076 0103 2000 0000 0300 004. Indicate that payment is Pro Terremoto Abruzzo.

Welcome in Tuscany, awaiting you are more than six tundre kilomtres of coastline, the Apennine mountains gently sloping hills and then rivers and green valleys, a context that can provide a backdrop to all activies, to any passion that you may want to carry out.
The possibilities are endless, the combinations of sports and tourism reserve ubforgettable surprises, and however concetrated you are on your activity, you won’t be able to without casting a glance at everything that surronuds you, boosting your emotions and multiplying your memories.
For  everybody yearning for a solida and a bit of relaxation, but who after a couple of hours lazing around feel like prisoners, we have some very interesting ideas.
How about a course that unites movement with learning on the Island of Capraia? Well, you could learn the difficult  art of nature photography, while on the nearby Island of Giannutri you will be offered a course in bird watching, as well as the tempting opportunity to visit the Roman Villa and learn to cook fish like in the island’s restaurants.
For thoose constantly on the go, there are walks in cities of art like Siena, and cycling on the tracks scattered about the spectacular countryside of the Crete.
But also visits to castles and glimpse over ancient remains from the Lunigiana to the Chianti area.

April the time of the year when everything in the garden goes into overdrive and at the same time provides us all with the inspiration or at least the desire for our own little patch to be that bit more special. So here a few ideas or objectives that could help you fulfil  that desire.
Once of most obvious yet surprisingly often overlooked point is simply toh ave a tidy up of your garden, land terrace, or balcony. You will be amazed, i certanly am, at how much junk, wood, rubbish and general clutter people allow to build up over time.
Cut the grass or clear that bramble patch that your garden has become, ( a strimmer is a definite must have for these parts).
Next look at what plants and shrubs you do have. Even that spiny acacia growing out of the gap between the terrace and wall can look good with pruning, shaping or just having all the past year’s organic detritus pulled away from underneath.it
pots.
Do you have any lurking in dark corners, mybe with a now dead plant buttressing the barbacue or gas bottle? Pull it out and remove the old rootball ( but save the soil or peat) and visit your local nursery for at least a few geraniums if nothing else –I’m not personally a great fan but hey, at least there i san ever greater choice.

Tuscany is harmony: harmonium landscapes, cultures and traditional.
Physical and spiritual well-being that you feel when you first set eyes on Tuscany and let yourself get carried away by the rhythms dictated by nature, the Seasons and the variations in the sun and the moon.
There are a great many ideas, precisely because the territory is vast in size and meaning.
Awaiting you is meditation and relaxation on the scope of the Amiata, the sacred mountain, with packages for those who love being pampered, like at the San Filippo Spa, alternating treatments with nature walks to the heart of the magic volcano. Or to the atmosphere of the Casentino, sospende in time, a land of endless woods, religious monuments and profound silence where the language of reflection and meditation reigns.
The welcome programme is for who travelling alone or in groups in the centres for well being, with weekly packages, but also simple weekends, devoted to taking care of the body and mind. Then you can consider taking the waters and their prodigious effects, the spa tradition providing a natural well-being and one of the best moment sto gather your energies.
Awaiting you in Montecatini and Monsummano, are the spa pools where you can bathe in the sulphurous waters and spend the day in your dressing gown between beauty masks and relaxing massages.
In Siena area, the programmes, leave you spoilt for choice with the ample selection of stays in holiday farms or hotels combineed with itineraries through spas rich in history such as Bagno Vignoni, Petriolo or San Filippo or other such  as Rapolano, Montepulciano, Radicofani, and San Casciano dei Bagni, together with the famous Chianciano Terme, the backdrop chosen by Fellini for the film “8 e ½” where you can also visit the spa museum.