Experience a truly enchanting holiday in one of my Tuscan Villas
A workshop with a calling for art.
A first glance, you’d say he’s a typical Pietrasanta youngster, with is ready smile and loquacity. But truth be told, Massimo Galleni is a member of “historic” generation of the city’s craftspeople: his grandfather started the family tradition and Masimo, who has been active in the sector since 1980, opened his own marble workshop about 15 years ago.
Massimo Galleni
Via Torraccia 5, Pietrasanta – Phone: +39 0584 793527
Web-site: www.gallenimassimo.it
Celebrating Beauty in Tuscany.
Timeless creations from a craftsman-jeweler, on Forte dei Marmi’s most exclusive shopping outings, Carlo’s Marchi‘s jewerly gallery is a mandatory stop.
Marchi is a jeweler who has defended and “fashion-proofed” his classical style. His selections and proposals withstand the test of time; his creation have a inner light all their own and value that goes far beyond purely material worth: rare quality made of unicity exclusivity and personality.
Carlo Marchi Gioiellere
Via Mazzini 7, Forte dei Marmi – Phone +39 0584 83844
Via S. Lucia 28, Lucca – Phone +39 0583 491346
Via Fillungo 69 Lucca – Phone +39 0583 494885
Web-site: www.gioielleriamarchicarlo.it
Allow yourself the luxury.
Beautiful dream yachts: renting Versilia’s best
A life of luxury and the chance to chenge looks at will. This is the dream that inspired Noleggio Versilia Rent Luxury, specialized in rentals of high-end vehicles and vessels.
For an “escape” to Sardinia on a splendid yacht or vacation in Versilia behind the wheel of a gleaming Ferrari, Maserati, Bentley or Lamborghini.
The agency takes care of every detail, including theft, fire damage, comprehensive, and UM/UIM coverage, a broad spectrum of short-and long-term rental formulas, and contracts of up to one year’s duration.
Noleggio Versilia Rent Luxury
Via Verdi 17 Ronchi – Phone: +39 338 9042127
Info@noleggioversilia.com
Web-site: www.noleggioversilia.com
Spring all year round.
Tuscany’s largest garden center is just outside of Pietrasanta, Giardini della Versilia, a gigantic greenhouse just outside the gates of Pietrasanta, is one of Italy’s top garden centers in terms of size, selection, and quality.
Inaugurated on March 20th to bloom with the spring season, Giardini della Versilia’s 6500 square meters of covered space, filled with plants of all kinds, gardening tools and materials, patio furniture, and much more, are bounded by the nursery: one enormous “flowerbed” bursting with essences and colors.
The garden center proposes a unique assortment, from “prefab” solutions ready for installation to consulting and delivery services but above all, ideas for new forms and atmospheres for the garden, parks, and any other open space.
The Giovanneli family’s new center expresses their love for nature, with an eye to wellbeing. Nature, because after parking in the center’s ample lot, visitors leave “human time” behind and embark on a path that follows natural rhythms, pervaded by stimulating natural fragrances, illuminated by Nature’s colors.
Wellbeing, because Giardini della Versilia is a wonderful spot for just passing time with family and friends and strolling in a green garden world, breathing in the scents of spring all year round. And for a restful pause in the relaxation/refreshment area that welcomes visitors on the upper floor.
Web-site: www.giardinia.mobi
Surf’s up
At the Pontile, biting salt spray and crashing waves, walls of water, barrels and riptides: riding the giants, dreamin’ California… Forte dei Marmi’s sea like you never seen it: the best place in the world to be. In the tube.
It’s said that caution is a natural human mechanism. Caution, not cluck. And maybe this dualistic thought caution vs fear is what runs through the mind of the surfer riding the Versilia waves.
On that same sea, so safe and welcoming so perfect for kids and families, that canturn into an amazing arena of impetuous sewlls, barreling and mean; waves to catch, attack, caress and follow into whitewater. Pur collective California dream plays out in a bit of versilia’s sea near Forte dei marmi’s Pontile. An expanse of water that has become the Tyrrhenian playground for stoked foam-breathers on bords.
Everything turns on the waves, whenever, wherever: little snappers, crumbly waves, or big, glassy giants, perfect, pitching, peeling. An eternal pilgrimage in search of ideal spot, even if the best spots are right there, around the Forte Pontile and a tad downscaled at Marina di Pietrasanta. The surfer suffering from perennial abstinence thus sets off looking for a nice wave to share with some good friends. Bundled in a wetsuit in winter or reveling in skin-sea contact in a summer.
The rest, all the rest, is an explosion of utter freedom and pure passion. The kind that drives you to frenetically click all the surflines to see where the surf’s up and then “dive” down from the remotest inland sites in Versilia by scooter, Ape, car, bike, VW bus…. any means of locomotion is the right one for getting to the beach or the Pontile, board under arm, and paddling out. This is what it’s all about. Someone defined it “the innermost limits of pure fun”.
A step into liquid time. Momentum. Passion. Passion that takes you, with your board buddies to hangouts like the Nimbus Club. Or to explore the specialized shops – on the increase throughout Versilia. The same passion that, in a business key, has spawned a host of boardshops that build to order (Ola Surfboards of pietrasant, for example).
The sea is an open-air stage on wich the curtain never falls: in winter as in summer, at dawn as at the dusk of a long, long day the blue crush is a never-ending attraction.
A “fatal” attraction, while all around unpredictable and unsettling, the unceasing wind and the whipping sea foam vehemently caress the senses of the surfer on a living curl at the morning of the earth.