Experience a truly enchanting holiday in one of my Tuscan Villas
The ladies of the camellias: alone in Lucca for an extraordinary event!
The exhibition of ancient camellias in Lucca area is a unique opportunity to get to know a plant of rare beauty close up. You can see exceptional specimens in the noble villas, old oil mills and liberty style gardens with Japanese overtones of the Luccan hills.
Every weekend in March to coincide with the display: 6, 7, 13 and 14.
Official web-site: www.camelielucchesia.it
A magic tuscany winery tour…why not?
On leaving Florence, following the Chianti road, we can find many medieval villages.
The first is Verrazzano with its beautiful old castle, the second is Greve in Chianti with its small centre famous for ancient wine cellars.
Continuing the tour, we find Radda in Chianti, famous for label called “Gallo Nero”. In a south west of Radda, from the top of gently hill, Castellina dominates an ancient holiday town; on the other side of the hill there are San Gimignano and Monteriggioni, two town of extra-ordinary beauty!
In these areas is possible to vsit many farms as Dievole, Verrazzano, Montagliari and many other.
Montaione is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 35 km southwest of Florence.
The town has ancient origins, the town is rich in culture, traditions and history.
In a surrounding area is possible to admire a charming landscape of Tuscany countryside of Chianti hills. Montaione is characterized by gentle hills cultivated with olive groves and chianti vineyards, is an ideal place where to make a travel and to spend a relaxing holiday with nature.
Montelupo Fiorentino, is a town on the immediate outskirts of Florence, between Montalbano and the river Arno.
Its location and the presence of waterways helped to develop numerous craft activities, especially ceramics, which reached its greatest splendour in the course of the 15th and 16th centuries.
This art is still alive in the numerous artistic ceramics workshops. Every year in the month of June there is the Festa Internazionale della Ceramica (International Ceramics Festival) where the area’s history and traditions are re-enacted in a series of exhibitions and artistic events. The origins of Montelupo probably coincide with the building of a castle at the end of the High Middle Ages.