House / Villa 10 - 12 persons. 7 room(s) , of which 5 Bedroom(s), 1 bathroom, Dining room, Duplex, Open-plan kitchen, Kitchenette, Living room, Loggia, 3 shower rooms, Terrace, 1 separate toilet Surface area : 240 m2 / 2582 sqft, Garden : 5000 sqm / 1.2 acres
Year of construction : 1600, Date of last renovation : 2006
Swimming pool Private, Amenities Bedding : 3 Double bed, 1 Sofabed, 4 Single bed, 2 Camp bed(s). Telephone, TV, Freezer, Sheets and towels included, Laundry machine, Dish washer, Private parking lot Baby cot, Baby high chair, Charcoal barbecue, Bath tub, Bicycle provided, Bidet, Books, Cable TV / Satellite TV, Cellar, Coal / Wood heating, Coffee maker, Communal TV room, Computer, Cooking stove, Courtyard, Deckchair, DVD player, Fan, Working Fireplace, Fridge freezer, Board games, Games for children, Hairdryer, Heating, Hot plate, Iron, Ironing board, Jacuzzi, Kettle, Microwave, Outdoor furniture, Oven, Parasol, Portable heater, Refrigerator, Shower, Stereo, Toaster, TV socket, Vacuum cleaner, VCR
Additional services Cleaning service available, House staff provided, ADSL Internet, Dial-up Internet connection, Bed linen provided, Towels provided, Airport transport upon demand Best points SHARE OF AN ANCIENT FARMHOUSE, WHOSE FIRST FOUNDATIONS DATE BACK TO THE XV CENTURY. COMPLETELY RESTORED, IS INDEPENDENT AND SORROUNDED BY CENTURIES-OLD PINE AND CYPRESSE TREES WHICH ADORN A LARGE ADJOINING PARTLY TERRACED GARDEN. LOCATED ON THE HILLS SURROUNDING MONTESPERTOLI, CITY OF WINE CHIANTI, IT BENEFITS FROM A WONDERFUL LIMITLESS VIEW ON THE VINEYARDS AND OLIVE-TREES HILLS.
THIS TUSCAN VILLA IS DISPOSED ON TWO FLOORS AND ITS EXTENSION IS APPROXIMATELY 250 SQUARE METERS, BEYOND APPROXIMATELY 300 MQ. OF TERRACE-SOLARIUM WITH COVERED LOGGIA And PORTICO..AND 5000 SQUARE METERS OF PARK/GARDEN...
DISTANCES ARE: 3 KM: FROM MONTESPERTOLI WITH ANY KIND OF SHOPS, BANKS, POSTOFFICE,; 12 Miles from FLORENCE, 16 Miles from S.GIMIGNANO, 25 Miles from SIENA, 40 Miles from PISA.
GROUND FLOOR: ENTRANCE-HALL, LARGE LIVING/DINING AREA WITH FIREPLACE AND TV, PASSAGE-WAY TEA-ROOM, KITCHEN (OVEN, FRREZER AND DISHWASHER) W.C.; OUTSIDE: LARGE EQUIPPED TERRACE (300 MQ.) AT CLIENT'S DISPOSAL, BATHROOM.
FIRST FLOOR: 3 DOUBLE BEDROOMS, 2 TWIN-BEDDED ROOMS, HALL, 3 BATHROOM WITH SHOWER, 1 BATHROOM-HALL WITH SHOWER AND TUB.
LARGE TERRACED PARK/GARDEN AROUND THE PROPERTY,
PARKING IN THE PROPERTY. TELEPHONE, IRON AND WASH-MACHINE AT DISPOSAL, SWIMMING POOL, EXTERNAL JACUZZI, EQUIPPED AREA FITNESS, BARBEQUE, INTERNET ADSL WIRELESS INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CONNECTION, ETC.
Notices Owner lives in the area, Pets allowed (prior arrangement)
Location Ground floor, in an accommodation of Bungalow View of Countryside at an angle. Altitude 300 m / 855 ft. Aspect South. Vineyard : less than 50 m. FIRENZE : 20 km. Close to A-road / Motorway, Close to airport, Semi-detached house. Bank : 1.9 km / 5415 ft, Bus station : 1.9 km / 5415 ft, Pharmacy : 1.9 km / 5415 ft, Restaurant : 200 m / 570 ft, Shops : 1.9 km / 5415 ft, Village centre : 1.9 km / 5415
Activities in the vicinity Mountain Biking / Cycling, Equitation, Hiking, Horse riding, Tennis
Means of access Main City: Firenze
Closest City: Firenze
Directions to Property
By Car from highway A1: exit Firenze-Signa, then take the motorway (S.G.C. FI-PI-LI) Firenze-Pisa-Livorno in Pisa-Livorno direction. Get out at Ginestra Fiorentina and go on to Montespertoli; from here take the road to S. Donato a Livizzano; after about 3 km you'll reach Morzano; on the same road there is Villa Casa Serena.
Means Of Transport
By Line:
Sita Bus: Line 353 Firenze-Montespertoli-Certaldo Montespertoli, 2 km;
" " Line 355 Firenze-Montespertoli-Volterra Montespertoli, 2 km
Motorways: S.G.C. Firenze-Pisa-Livorno Ginestra Fiorentina, 10 km
Airports Florence: FLR 24 km, Pisa PSA 70 km
Highways: A1 Milano-Napoli Firenze Signa
Train Lines: Firenze - Empoli; Firenze - Pisa -Livorno; Firenze - Siena: Stop at EMPOLI (or Montelupo Fiorentino if the train stops). then by taxi to Villa Casa Serena.
Hints and Tips
Tourist Itineraires
Florence (20 km.)
Florence is one of the most famous cities in Italy. As the birthplace of the Renaissance it preserves some of the greatest works of art and most beautiful buildings in the world.
Siena (40 km.)
It is not only one of the most fascinating towns in Tuscany, but is also in a particulary beautiful position, with lovely environs. It has preserved its medieval character.
Pisa (50 km.)
standing on the Arno a few miles from its mouth, it is famous for its beautiful Piazza del Duomo, with the Cathedral, Leaning Tower, and Baptistery
Vinci (25 km.)
On the southwest slope of Monte Albano, 11 km north of Empoli, in beautiful countryside, is the little village of Vinci, famous as the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci.
Volterra (45 km.)
lies in a magnificent position on a precipitous hill with open views in every direction across a splendid yellow and grey landscape of rolling clay hills.
San Gimignano (28 km.)
San Gimignano preseres its medieval appearance more completely than any other town in Tuscany. It is famous for its numerous towers, providing a remarkable sight in Italy.
Certaldo (17 km.)
Like many other Tuscan towns, Certaldo is divided between its medieval walled town on a hill and the modern esidential and industrial suburb spread out below.
Montelupo Fiorentino (15 km.)
Montelupo Fiorentino is an attractive village where the Pesa and Arno rivers meet. Known for the wine production, the artistic glass and the ceramic products
Montespertoli
The Commune of Montespertoli covers an area equivalenit to 125.02 sq.km., over some of the characteristic hills of Central Tuscany which form part of the Chianti area. The chief town sits 257 metres above sea level, 25km from Florence and is equidistant from the touristic centres of San Gimignano, Siena, Pisa and Volterra.
The varied landscape consists of a morphologically uniform hill range with land which is fertile from a phycal and nutritional point of view. The land of the Val di Pesa hills, infact, being composed of marine sediment, is considered to be one of the best. On the whole the landscape can be described as Chianti-type because of its relatively modest altiude (maximum 442 metres above sea level at Lucardo) and by the presence of olive trees and vines.
The climate, in spite of exposure to all winds, is mild. Continuous and free ventilation keeps the air pure and healthy. Montespertoli, with its vineyeards, cellars and the Chianti Show, is one of the Tuscan wine capitals.
Historically the wine, as well as the oil and bread, has always been one of its most important features, and is weel-known in the region.The Commune is endowed with an efficient road network and with a series of refreshment places, featuring typical Tuscan cooking, a Tourist Information Office (headquarters of the Pro-Loco), an important tourist sports centre in Molino del Ponte with football pitch, five-a-side field, indoor tennis courts, trap shooting, sports stadium, swimming pool, hotel and restaurant. The layout of the area has permitted the organization of cultural itineraries which can occupy several days' stay. Of particulary interest is the Museo di Arte Sacra in the parish church of San Piero in Mercato and the A. Bassi Picture Gallery in Piazza Machiavelli.
The territory of the present Municipality of Montespertoli played an important role in past times, surely since the Etruscan period, because of its road network which enabled Florence to trade towards Volterra and Siena along the Via Volterrana. This road actually crossed the territory of Montespertoli from North to south and joined the Via Francigena at Certaldo. Scattered along the Via Volterrana can be found settlements of the nobility dating back to the early Middle Ages: to the North near Montegufoni there was the castle of the Ormanni which was destroyed by the Florentines in 1135. After the destruction of tha Ormanni castle, Gugliarello Acciaioli from Brescia bought a lot of land in the area and one hundred and fifty years later, on 12 September 1310, the Great Seneschal Niccolò Acciaioli was born there.
The Acciaioli bequeath the church of San Lorenzo in Montegufoni works of art of very fine quality: a Crucifix by Taddeo Gaddi. The Acciaioli family decayed early in the XVIIth century and all their estates were bought by the Usibardi family, extinct in 1663. Then a descendant of another branch of the Acciaioli line, Donato, succeeded in buying back all the family properties and starting a new period of wealth which lasted throughout the XVIII century. The castle standing to one side of Montespertoli, today the property of the Sonnino, originally belonged to the Signori of Montespertoli, a branch of the Dukes Alberti from Mangona but, since ttheir family became extinct in 1393, they bequeathed all their properties to the Machiavelli. The estates of this family stretched over almost two thirds of the present Municipality of Montespertoli and we owe them the very great number of art in most churches of the territory.
Montespertoli, of medieval origin, had its first church inside the castle of the Signori of the town, and only at the beginning of the XVth century the Churh of Sant'Andrea, presently in Piazza Machiavelli, was built and later restored after the damages caused by the Second World War. In the territory of Montespertoli the Parish-church of San Piero in Mercato represents together with the village of Lucardo the most ancient centre dating back to the early Middle Ages.
Today the oldest traces left of the church date from the Romanesque period, but we can reasonably assume that a building of a very simple structure stood on the same spot before the year one thousand and was destroyed in the course of the building activity
of the XIth century.
During the XIVth century San Piero in Mercato was the seat of the Podestà and of the League of three parishes: San Piero in Mercato,
San Pancrazio and Coeli Aula.
At the end of the XVth century the important market held in San Piero and the seat of the Podestà were moved to Montespertoli
The small Sanctuary of St. Mary of Peace, in the Convent of Botinaccio, built in the XVI century, has been expanded from year to year to get the present dimension. It became Franciscan Friars' property until the French invasion in the decade of the last century. In the chapel, there are some frescoes dating back to around 1600.
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11/11/2009
19/12/2009
2450 €
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20/12/2009
31/12/2009
2850 €
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Holiday rental : from Saturday to Saturday. Short stays allowedfrom 7day(s) . All charges-included, Downpayment / Deposit requested, Discount depending on length of stay, Key pick up with owner, Owner not present on location, Security deposit requested, Supplement for heating depending on the season, supplement for cleaning upon departure
Last update : 4/11/2009 Date of first advertisement on the Homelidays website 18/10/2006
