apartment/ flat - 5 rooms - 4 persons 10 Km San Gimignano

Additional services:

• Towels provided
• Bed linen provided

Hints and tips from the owner:

" Certaldo, is a well known town in which the poet Giovanni Boccaccio was born. It is a strategic point stuck in the middle of the Val d’Elsa, from which it is very easy to reach cities and Points of artistic and cultural interest as Florence, Siena, Pisa, San Gimignano and Volterra. Its origins are dated back to the Etruscan-Roman period. Certaldo has an upper village (m. 130). That is the older part and another side developed in the adjacent dale since XIII-XIV centuriy, at the very border with the ‘Via Francigena’. The Medieval town plan of the village has been kept almost the same all along the centuries. It represent one of the finest medieval village of Tuscany from every point of view, From the architectonical, from the one of the town plan and also about the environment. Since some 15 years, in Certaldo every year take place (at the end of July) a festival called Mercantia. It is the most important Italian street artists festival. It is very suggestive to see the main street in the upper Certaldo enlightened by the light of flares and torches, but the basic element of the festival is by no doubt the moltitude of shows that take place at every corner of the village. For more or less three hours in every street or square of the city there are puppets shows, musicians, theatre plays, acrobats, jugglers and tumblers. The written program of what is about to happen during the festival only gives a partial idea of what really is this event. "

Notices:

• Pets not allowed

Useful information :

• Rental from Saturday to Saturday
• Short stays from 4 days

• All charges are included in the rental price
• This advert was first published on the Homelidays website on 13/12/2004

In the area:

• Airport: 40 Km
• Train station: 500 m
• Restaurant: 200 m
• Supermarket: 800 m
• Hospital: 9 Km