Agriturismo Torrazzetta

The farmholiday is situated on the Oltrepo Pavese hills. It is housed in a farmhouse, restored in its ancient origins and with ample rustic and refined indoor and outdoor spaces, a restaurant with traditional cuisine, 29 rooms and meeting rooms.

The farmhouse, in business for over twenty-five years in the catering and hospitality, is characterized by wide open internal and external spaces, rustic and refined, featuring fireplaces, wood and the original brick structure nineteenth century.

The rooms of the structure, located inside of the ancient farming environment and bearing their name (Chambers of the Well, the Mill, the barn and cellar) are placed in various parts of the structure around the central body. All of them are equipped with bathroom and air conditioning, while five of them, the Suite rooms, located at the Cellar, have a ground floor which hosts the living area with sofa bed and armchair and services with shower and the loft which hosts the bed and night services (without shower). They also feature a balcony overlooking the pool fence and television.

The restaurant is divided into several rooms and large enough to accommodate every kind of event: from a normal lunch or dinner to banquets and ceremonies, as well as work lunches. During the week you can have lunch and dinner a la carte, choosing among the proposals in the menu of the day, while on Saturday evening and Sunday lunch, you can usually take advantage of the tasting menu, which includes an overview of the typical dishes of the company and includes the wines included in the price and production company. The restaurant is open for rooms guests as well as for outdoor guests and booking is recommended. Of particular interest are the ome made breads and first courses, both with white flour and with whole wheat flour, cured meats, desserts and spirits.

Within the structure, as common areas, equipped with wireless, we find an internet point, a music room with piano and guitar, a reading room, a bar area and table tennis. Flanked on the wine production cellar "the cellar of the pilgrim" has been created, a beautiful space created from the staves of the barrels, where you can taste and buy farm produce directly. Outside, in addition to the fields surrounding the farm, ideal for relaxing walks, various gardens, where our cats and dogs are always sympathetic to be pampered, a space with different types of animals, including: Vietnamese Piglet, black sheeps, farm animals, our favorite Donkey (Pepe) and his friend pony (Sale).

In the estate are also available a 10x20m outdoor infinity pool, surrounded by Oltrepo Pavese hills and a tennis-soccer court in addition to the wide open spaces suitable for a variety of activities.

The various meeting rooms, derived from the restructuring of the company and perfectly integrated into the surrounding environment, allow, thanks to their flexibility, to adapt to every need and every kind of meeting.
The structure is able to accommodate from small workgroups to meetings of more than 200 people, and to offer hospitality to residential courses.

Nearby you can spend time with both cultural and natural or sport baths. The farm holiday is in fact a few kilometers from Pavia, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Lombardy, where particularly relevant are to the Visconti Castle, the Cathedral, the Basilicas of San Michele Maggiore and San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, where the relic of St. Augustine lies, the University of Pavia, established in 825, which boasts such illustrious alumni as Volta, Foscolo and Golgi.
Easily accessible are the Certosa di Pavia built starting from 1396 to the wishes of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the town of Vigevano with its Piazza Ducale (1492, designed by Bramante) and Lomellina. For historic and scenic routes along the valleys of our hills The Village of St. Albert, with the remains of the abbey of St. Albert of Butrio, Fortunago and Zavattarello, input circuit of the hundred most beautiful towns of Italy. Varzi, a medieval town which played a key role in trade along the Strada del sale and Volpedo, birthplace of the famous painter Pellizza da Volpedo, author of "Quarto Stato". For those who prefer the natural paths of particular interest are the Botanic Gardens of Pietra Corva, at 950 meters altitude provides an extensive collection of flora of the Alps and other mountain systems such as the Himalayas and the Andes, The Oasis of Sant'Alessio, which is a wildlife park since 1994 to "biological equilibrium" and the Park of Ticino river, and the floodplain of the Lower Pavese, where we encounter the typical river terraces.
In addition, the Via del Sale, which runs from Varzi to Genoa, in our valley offers the Malaspina Castle, the Church of the Capuchins, Col Seppa and Monte Chiappa, while The ViaFrancigena, known as the road running from Canterbury to Rome, offers in the Province of Pavia the Shrine of Our Lady of Bozzole in Garlasco. Furthermore, in a few minutes from Torazzetta are the Terme di Salice and Rivanazzano, the Ponte della Becca, from where you can start an adventure aboard the “Airboat, and the Motodrom and Kartodromo” of Castelletto di Branduzzo