Tuscany

If you are interested to spend Christmas holidays in Tuscany, www.magicoftuscany.com has realized interesting packages including tourist itineraries, wine and food trips, cooking local lessons, beauty treatments. It offers also a wide selection of country villas, farmhouses and apartments furnished with all services and facilities ideal for spending the New Year’s Day 2010 in Tuscany, the beautiful territory of sweet hills.
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If someone is interested to spend a holiday in Tuscany there is a new website useful for planning the vacation.
In magicoftuscany.com it’s possible to find holidays villas in Tuscany to choose among different areas: Arezzo,Firenze, Livorno, Lucca,Pisa e Siena.

The country villas selected among the best of the region, are equipped with swimming pool and garden for pleasant and relaxing moments and they are caracterized by typical elements of Tuscan architecture.

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The most striking music event of Summer 2009 in Venice has been fixed: the concert of Andrea Bocelli in Piazza San Marco on Wednesday 1st July.

A very particular concert for the picturesque location as Piazza San Marco, that is more than just a frame to the concert.

And for the best Bocelli fans there will be a unique holiday package defined by the tour operator Ariannandfriends.com and named “The Dazzling Dozen”, because it is destined to only 12 people in the world . It includes the best Executive tickets to the concert, placed in the 3rd, 4th or 5th row of the stalls and 6 nights from Saturday 27th June to Friday 3rd July 2009.

The pick-up is organized in Pisa airport. Accommodation for the first three nights of the package is in a luxury spa hotel close to Lajatico. The schedule includes a day dedicated to Andrea Bocelli’s places: a visit to the wine farm of his family with tasting of the excellent Bocelli wines, a visit to Teatro del Silenzio, where the star is performing in his yearly concert on 18th July and a visit to his birth town Lajatico. On the occasion of a three night stay in Tuscany, our package includes sightseeing tours of Pisa, Lucca and Florence as well as the visit to an organic pecorino cheese farm close to Volterra.

A transfer on 1st Class Freccia Rossa train from Florence to Venice is provided to reach the enchanting city.  The day  after the concert is dedicated to the visit to Murano and the glass workshops.

The cost of this all inclusive package is 1840 Euro.

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Bocelli concert in Venice

Saturnia is a typical village that lies at the heart of Tuscany, the hills more internal, halfway between the imposing mass of Mount Amiata, main mountain of the Maremma, and the sea, with extraordinary presence of Monte Argentario on banks of the Tyrrhenian Coast, the country was founded in Roman times and today, as well as its undisputed beauty, it is particularly famous for its Spa, with sulphurous waters, known and appreciated worldwide.

The Terme di Saturnia are as one of the most popular attractions of the Maremma, to reach them sulphurous water at a temperature of 37.5 ° C, which springs from an ancient source nearby, which goes into the famous Gorello and the Mill Falls.

The Saturnia Spa is a very welcoming and elegant, where you can find a modern Wellness Center, which offers massages and beauty treatments for healing, sauna and turkish bath, some swimming pools, whirlpool, water trails and a golf course, recently inaugurated, 18 holes.

The Maremma is a wonderful territory located in the southern region of Tuscany, a few kilometers from the border with Tuscia Laziale, overlooking the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, with a coastline that extends for many kilometers, the area is characterized by its nature, yet absolutely wild and unspoiled, able to fascinate for its beauty and its simplicity, capable of telling a history and a very ancient history, to fascinate visitors with legends and stories of the past.

Spending a holiday in Maremma will certainly be an exciting, unforgettable and unique experience during which time the contact with nature and the environment surrounding appreciating the beauty of landscapes and the wonder of villages and towns, real gems of art, history and culture.

On a trip to Maremma certainly will not miss a visit to villages that arise on land, sea, mountains and rolling hills between the interior, especially Orbetello, known to the lagoon, the Argentario, where there are the countries of Porto Ercole and Porto Santo Stefano, Massa Marittima and Castiglione della Pescaia, immersed in Metalliferous Hills, Manciano, dominated by his Aldobrandeschi Rocca, Pitigliano, also known as the “Little Jerusalem”, Sorano, with its historic center, Sovana, the Roman city , Santa Fiora, famous for fishing and Castell’Azzara, one of the main centers of Mount Amiata.

According to legend, built by to two Romans young men, Petilia andCeliano, fled the capital following the theft, to bet, of a precious object, Pitigliano is a wonderful town that lies at the heart of dell’Area Tufo, in southern Tuscany.

Pitigliano is a village certainly very charming and enchanting, which presents itself as awonderful town, offering the visit of places, environments and territories undoubtedly magical and exciting, typical of the Maremma landscape and renowned worldwide for their indescribable immense beauty and charm, the views that you can admire will certainly be very fascinating and unique, certainly capable of hitting for their immense beauty and their great and infinite wonder.

The country of Pitigliano, as on the other hand throughout the Maremma Grosseto, is certainly very famous for the ancient presence in the countryside, the population of the Etruscans, brilliant people who left a significant and important traces of its passage, especially the necropolis, the Colombari and ways cave, but depending on where the scholars have not yet certain ideas, two are assumptions, the most widely expected that the streets were born quarries in order to serve as routes secure communications, the other who had a kind of sacred place of protection from negative influences.

Orbetello is a country of the province of Grosseto, located in south-western region of Tuscany, presenting itself as one of the most relevant and important village of the area, the town, arose during the Middle Ages, is today  a tourist destination of extreme beauty, chosen by an increasing number of tourists for their summer holidays.

The old town of Orbetello sees the presence of a large number of monuments, buildings and ancient buildings, making it a place certainly very charming and full of interest, where to visit interesting monuments, it is the ideal solution to come into contact with culture more real and authentic in the country, knowing the traditions, art and history.

There are many monuments that deserve to be visited, among the main however include the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, a splendid building erected on the ruins of an ancient Etruscan temple, but also the Church of San Francesco da Paola and the Church of St. Joseph.

Then, continue with the Spanish Mill, built in the center of the lagoon, and the Medina Porta Coeli, access to the ancient fortified city, then conclude with the Polveriera Guzman, now the Archaeological Museum, the cyclopean walls, partly erected by the hand and Etruscan and the Palace of Government, dating back to the period of domination of the State of Deans.

In the heart of Classic Chianti you find Fonterutoli, a tranquil country village owned by Mazzei Marquis Family since 1435, located 5 km south of Castellina in Chianti on the hills facing the Val d’Elsa.

Fonterutoli is characterized by a cluster of houses, the church of San Miniato and the family villa, built at the end of the 1500s where the medieval castle once stood.

All around the villa you find charming village apartments and suites managed as luxury b&b that can be rented individually or as a single unit. They are all elegantly furnished and are the ideal place for a relaxing holiday.

Fonterutoli is also the ideal place for who is interested in Tuscany wine tours. In fact, here there are the ancient wine cellars owned by Mazzei, where the best and rare wines of Chianti territory are produced.

Fonterutoli – Luxury apartments in Tuscany

Podere Paterno is a charming country villa right in the middle of a scenic hilly area. It’s ideal for groups of friends and couples without children. Fully furnished in refined Tuscan rural style, it has a ground floor where is situated an equipped kitchen with a gas cooker, an oven, a fridge and a freezer, accessible from the garden and from the comfortable dining room.

From the kitchen you can access to the veranda and the fenced garden outside, where there is a fantastic panoramic swimming pool.

On the first floor the villa has got three large double bedrooms with a panoramic view over the hills and two large bathrooms with tub.

The hill of Podere paterno overlooks many surrounding medieval towns like Volterra, Lajatico, Peccioli, Terricciola and Chianni.

The villa is gay friendly and nudism is accepted.

Podere Paterno – Country Villa in Tuscany

Croce del Magno, Chianni (Pisa)
Phone: +39 0587 67 20 88
Skype: holidayintuscany
Fax: +39 0587 67 20 88
Mobile (Arianna): +39 340 784 49 38
Mobile (Massimo): +39 348 335 20 39

The travel agency Arianna & Friends has thought to an incoming tourist project addressed to people who want to spend an innovative holiday according to personal wishes.

The agency proposes personalized holiday packages that include accommodation and interesting services. You can choose among tourist farms, villas, agriturismo properties and holiday houses, selected by the agency in all Tuscany, to satisfy tourist’s needs.

It proposes a great number of activities : Tuscan cooking classes;  wine & food tours that provide tasting wine, olive oil, cheese and sausages, chocolate;  cultural Tours, visiting castles, hamlets, natural parks, museums, mines, hidden treasures; arts and Italian classes: decoration on ceramics, painting, decoupage, Italian language classes;  outdoor activities and sports: trekking, biking, horse riding, quadding, golf.

Arianna & Friends Holiday in Tuscany

Via Mazzini, 71 56037 Peccioli – Pisa – Italy
Tel. +39 0587 672088
info@ariannandfriends.com