Catarsena
Bibbiena (Arezzo) Code
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Swimming pool
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Pets welcome
Profile
In brief
- Type: Entire facility (1),
- Guests: 16
- Map: Hills
- Type of accommodation: Room only
The agriturismo
The farmhouse offers hospitality in a late 18th-century villa between Florence and Arezzo, near the Casentino Forest National Park, with a heated swimming pool in spring and early fall.
The accommodation
Hospitality is offered in a manor house, built during the 1600s, and then partly modified in the 1800s and expanded in the 1900s. On the front of the villa and on one side is the 19th-century romantic garden, with palm trees, boxwood and laurel hedges, and many other plants.
The manor house, built at the end of the 18th century, after 2 years of expert and detailed restoration, carried out respecting the original features of the building, offers a comfortable and very comfortable stay to those who want to spend vacations in the Tuscan countryside. At the disposal of guests, two apartments have been made, connected to each other.
Both apartments of the villa have been very comfortably furnished with fine furniture and finishes, partly antique and partly made by good Tuscan craftsmen.
Both apartments of the villa have been very comfortably furnished with fine furniture and finishes, partly antique and partly made by good Tuscan craftsmen.
Thelarger apartment has, on the ground floor, a large living-dining room, with a large fireplace, a large well-equipped kitchen, a bathroom, and a utility room. A comfortable flight of stone stairs leads to the second floor, where there is a bright and very pleasant living room, with the original restored painted walls, game table, SAT television, DVD player, and 5 bedrooms, 3 of which have private bathrooms (one with bathtub and two with shower) and 2 with a shared bathroom, which is larger and equipped with a shower with hydromassage.
Thesmaller apartment, connected on the second floor with the larger one, has a separate entrance from the forecourt in front of the villa. Upon entering, up 10 steps of the stone staircase you enter the living room with fireplace, communicating with the kitchen, and the 2 bedrooms each with its own private bathroom.
Only 20 meters from the villa will be available to guests a 6x14 swimming pool, which will be heated so that it can be used even in early autumn or mid-spring.
Activities and surrounding
The farmhouse, surrounded by about 80 hectares of farm-owned land, is located at 450 meters above sea level, in a panoramic, isolated position, about 6 km from the center of Bibbiena, a charming town in the heart of the Casentino valley and not far from the border of the Casentino Forest National Park.
Noteworthy for the Casentino are, among other places: Franciscan Sanctuary of La Verna, Monastery and Hermitage of Camaldoli, Castle of Poppi, Dominican Convent of S.Maria del Sasso, Stia, famous for Casentino fabric, Romanesque parish church of Romena and adjacent Castle, Castle of Porciano, Bibbiena and many small characteristic villages, Romanesque churches and castles.
The most famous and important cities: Florence (65 km), Arezzo (35 km), Siena (110 km), Cortona (55 km), Assisi (130 km), Perugia (120 km).
The farm's territory is varied, and the landscape changes from the typical mid-hills, once cultivated with arable or arboreal crops, to the pasture meadows of the Apennines. The more than 300 hectares of 'natural' forests are rich mainly in oaks, chestnuts, beeches, hornbeams and many other more or less sporadic species, while the approximately 200 hectares of artificial forests, planted from the 1950s until the early 1980s, consist of pines, firs, cedars, cypresses and other conifers.
In the past 10 years, wood arboriculture plantings with different tree species have also been established in order to produce valuable timber, such as cherry, walnut, oak, ash, pear and rowan, totaling about 45 hectares and about 40,000 trees. The land free of forested area consists mainly of pastures.
Just a 15-minute walk from the farmhouse, embedded in the farm property, is a pond for sport fishing.
Guests can alternate days devoted to trips and excursions to the beautiful Casentino valley or to the best-known towns in Tuscany and Umbria with pleasant, quieter days, taking walks in the grounds of the property or relaxing by the pool or in the garden.
Services
Available services
Swimming pool
Barbecue
Pets allowed
Inform the agriturismo of any animals at the time of booking.
Owners will be held responsible for damage to property and persons.
Pets allowed
- Dogs
Size/gender of dogs
- Small (under 10 kg)
- Medium (10 kg - 25 kg)
Allowed in
- Accommodation
- Outdoor picnic area
Safety
- Only well-behaved, supervised animals
Sport and leisure
- Bike rental
Credit cards welcome
Attractions and activities in the surrounding area
- Nature Reserves
- Museums and galleries
- Artistic and historical sites
Sport and activities in the surrounding area
- Hiking
- Fishing
- Horse riding
- Golf
- Tennis
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September 2010
We stayed in the "small" of the villa (small so to speak ...). Very spacious, nice, clean and with a fully equipped kitchen (there being no food is not bad) and two small bathrooms perfect. The tenants of the apartment we have done great visit: still more beautiful and ...
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Stay: 8/2010
MP
September 2010
We stayed here for 1 week in August and wished we had discovered it earlier ....we would then have stayed for 2 weeks!
The Villa is incredibly beautiful, restored to a meticulous level. We will come back again when we have the chance. Read more
The Villa is incredibly beautiful, restored to a meticulous level. We will come back again when we have the chance. Read more
Stay: 8/2010
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Catarsena
Bibbiena (Arezzo)