An ancient house for miners located on the hill of Monsummano Alto in a protected zone of the park with panoramic views. A prestigious place for your holiday in the heart of Tuscany.
The Bed & Breakfast is located just few minutes away from the major services. You can reach in less than an hour tourist attractions like Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoia or Versilia.
Near Le Vie Cave you can finnd Grotta Giusti spa, the Montecatini Terme nightlife, golf, horse riding, tennis courts and all the elements for a perfect alternative holiday .
Rooms and Services
Single Room € 80,00
Double Room (as single) € 60,00
Double Room €100,00
including breakfast and free parking
House for Rent Sleeps 7, fully equipped kitchen, 3 bathrooms, garden
Weekly: € 1.500,00
Monthly: € 5.000,00
Golf nearby:
Immersed in the Tuscan countryside, the Montecatini Golf Club is an 18 hole golf course of natural beauty that has been built in the hilly countryside. The player is faced with many natural hazards such as lakes, streams, forests, and ditches which have been formed as part of the natural contours of the land. As well, the course features many dog legs and the greens are very fast and are also undulating, putting the best golfer's skill to the test.
The Golf Club Fontevivo is in the outskirts of San Miniato, an old small town with important Romanesque and renaissance monuments. You can reach it from the highway Firenze-Pisa going out at San Miniato and following the road signs to Fontevivo Tennis and Golf. Apart from the course with 9 holes there is a driving range, tennis courts, a bar and a restaurant which specializes in fish dishes.
Designed by Arnold Palmer, the wonderful landscape of Le Pavoniere makes this a lovely course to play. The Arnold Palmer designed course features hazards that are cleverly brought into play. The fairways are slightly rolling, and the course is surrounded by holm-oak woods, cluster pines and cypresses. Very long fairways and undulating greens are the features of the course
9 hole course and a good test for all abilities
Places of interest nearby:
Montevettolini : Medieval village perched on top of the hill. Rich in sumptuous aristocratic residences, many of which retained valuable works of art.
Pistoia :The city of Pistoia is particularly rich in valuable monuments of Romanesque and Renaissance and especially boasts one of the most beautiful squares in Italy: Piazza del Duomo.
Florence : Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, is universally recognized as a city of art, a priceless heritage of architecture, paintings, sculptures, historical and scientific memoirs.
Versilia :Popular bathing area, characterized by long sandy beach full of-equipped factories.
Contact Us:
Le Vie Cave - Bed & Breakfast
Via Croce di Pacino, 516
51015 Monsummano Terme
Pistoia Italy
Tel +39 335 7777820
E Mail: info@leviecave.com
Website: www.leviecave.com
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The holiday home “The Door” of Mignana is situated in the country of the city of Vinci, famous all over the world as it was the birthplace of the genius Leonardo.
The facility, totally plunged in the Tuscan country, consists of five residences in old stones, with fittings in precious chestnut wood and with a floor made in terracotta tiles.
Plunged in the peace of an unpolluted nature, “The Door” of Mignana offers its guests a breathtaking view, that stretches out as far as the eye can see through the valleys of Empoli, San Miniato and Vinci letting everybody make out Livorno, the Tyrrenian See and Gorgona Island.
A stay at “The Door “ of Mignana let you so plunge in the rural Microcosm of Tuscany, coming totally in the traditional surroundings of the country, live the rhythms of the ancient rustic life, finding again in this calm and silence the best antidote against the stress of modern life.
Apartments
The Holiday home “The Door “ of Mignana consists of five large residences with 2 till 6 beds, each one with independent entrance and outside space. Renovated collecting local stones and bricks, they appear in particular comfortable and refined, differing because of the particular period furniture always in typical Tuscan style.
All the apartments consist of a dining room with kitchenette, one or more bedrooms and bathroom with shower, they are provided with satellite TV, air conditioning, washing machine, floor heating.
Common spaces are the swimming-pool, private parking and outside space for games and relax, mountain bikes, as well as the barbecue and a wood-burning oven (on booking).
“The Door“ of Mignana , old door of the Medicean Royal Passage : with its own farm is situated in a very panoramic area that overlooks the city of Vinci.
The Medicean Royal Passage was the preserve of the game and of the agricultural and forest products of the Medicean Family, Gran Dukes of Tuscany till 1738, completely surrounded with a stone wall and some remains are still visible in the inner farm.
The Apartments
COSIMO IL VECCHIO
Pretty apartment consisting of two rooms : dining and living room with an armchair and a divan bed, kitchen with kitchenette, a double room and a bathroom with shower. The apartment is completed by a fireplace in old stone in the corner. Position : ground floor with a part of the arcade.
LEONARDO
Pleasant two-roomed flat consisting of a dining and living room with kitchenette and intermediate floor, a double room and a bathroom with shower. Position : First floor. It’s provided with an independent outside area with a panoramic view on Vinci.
LORENZO IL MAGNIFICO
“Magnificent” flat placed on two storeys, united by old stairs. The entrance is through a covered arcade, an ideal place for enjoying beautiful days both in Summer and in Winter. The ground floor consists of a large dining room with a kitchen and a fireplace, in addition to a spacious living room with a window over the arcade, provided with a divan and a divan bed.
On the first floor there is the night area, that consists of a double room, a room with two connecting single beds and two bathrooms with shower and hydromassage. All rooms enjoy a splendid panoramic view.
ANTICO FIENILE
Delightful two-roomed flat consisting of a dining and living room with kitchenette, fireplace and a divan bed, a bathroom with shower and an intermediate floor, where there is the night area and where we enter through stairs made in wood and iron.
Position : with entrance in front of the swimming pool, it enjoys a splendid panoramic view.
CASOTTO DEI BIRRI
Pleasant two-roomed flat consisting of a dining and living room with kitchenette and a divan bed , a bathroom with shower and an intermediate floor with the night area. Outside there is a little independent “farmyard“.
Position : in front of the swimming pool, with a splendid panoramic view.
Facilities
Swimming pool (open all the year), a private parking for all tha apartament and outdoor area for relax and play, football, mountain-bike. More the barbecue, grill and on prenotation the wood's oven for cooking Pizza
Golf nearby:
The Montelupo Golf Club was founded in 1996 by Christopher Cowie , who designed the course with 9 holes on flat land along the river Arno, surrounded by the beautiful Tuscan landscape of Chianti Montalbano. The course, 9 hole par 36, measuring 2,914 meters.
Immersed in the Tuscan countryside, the Montecatini Golf Club is an 18 hole golf course of natural beauty that has been built in the hilly countryside. The player is faced with many natural hazards such as lakes, streams, forests, and ditches which have been formed as part of the natural contours of the land. As well, the course features many dog legs and the greens are very fast and are also undulating, putting the best golfer's skill to the test.
The Golf Club Fontevivo is in the outskirts of San Miniato, an old small town with important Romanesque and renaissance monuments. You can reach it from the highway Firenze-Pisa going out at San Miniato and following the road signs to Fontevivo Tennis and Golf.
Designed by Arnold Palmer, the wonderful landscape of Le Pavoniere makes this a lovely course to play. The Arnold Palmer designed course features hazards that are cleverly brought into play. The fairways are slightly rolling, and the course is surrounded by holm-oak woods, cluster pines and cypresses. Very long fairways and undulating greens are the features of the course.
FOR BOOKINGS AND FURTHER INFORMATIONS:
Casa Vacanze “La Porta” di Mignana
Via Mignana, 67-69
Vitolini - Vinci (FI)
Tel/fax: (+39) 0571 - 584726
Cell: (+39) 347-3174235
E Mail: info@casavacanzelaporta.it
Website: www.casavacanzelaporta.it
]]>ANTICA FONTE RESORT nestles among the sweet rolling hills of Tuscany, along one of the borders most hotly disputed between Florence and Siena, in close contact with the Chianti Classico area and near to an ancient spring, all of these being some of the most important features of the Siena area.
Antica Fonte Resort, gives to their guests the most modern comforts, preserving the ancient Tuscan tradition
The residence comprises three detached villas containing 15 elegantly furnished apartments featuring stone outer walls, terracotta tiled floors, wood-beam ceilings, bathrooms lined with quality marble, independent entrances and gardens, independent heating and air-conditioning, satellite TV and services in each room.
The resort also features 4 hectares of parkland, three panoramic salt-water swimming pools with a chlorine-electrolysis disinfection system, one 16 x 8m, another 9 x 8m with whirlpool and a 25 square metre pool for children, a large solarium in travertine with umbrellas and sunbeds, parking, mountain bikes, a shared laundry with ironing facilities and coin-operated washing machines and a barbecue for open-air grills.
The Antica Fonte Restaurant inside the Resort offers guests the finest dishes and wines of Tuscany.
During their holidays, guests at ANTICA FONTE RESORT can choose from a wide variety of tourist itineraries. They can go on many excursions on foot, by bike or by car, such as the footpath in the midst of enchanting scenery which takes them to the mediaeval town of Casole d'Elsa, just 800 m away, set on a hilltop dominating the Elsa Valley, a land of boundless suggestion. Using the quiet and peaceful ANTICA FONTE RESORT as their base, guests can easily visit the most important historical centres of Tuscany: Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Monteriggioni, Volterra, Pisa, Arezzo and the coast.
ANTICA FONTE RESORT comprises 3 detached villas containing a total of 15 apartments, 56 beds, divided into three types: two-room, three-room and four-room. Each villa was built maintaining the characteristics of typical country houses, with stone outer walls, terracotta tiled floors, wood-beam ceilings, country furniture, bathroom and kitchen walls and worktops in quality marble, painstakingly selected elegant furnishings.
Villa Rosa is composed by 4 apartments : 3 four rooms on the ground floor and a two rooms on the first floor for 10 double rooms in total and 4 kitchen living room with 4 double sofa bed (20 adults sleeps + 8 children sleeps).
Villa Ginestra is composed by 5 apartments : 4 three rooms, two on the ground floor, two on the first floor and a two rooms on the ground floor for 9 double rooms in total and 5 kitchen living room with 5 double sofa bed ( 18 adults sleeps + 10 children sleeps).
Villa Margherita is composed by 6 apartments : 3 two rooms on the ground floor, 1 three rooms on the ground floor and two three rooms on the first floor for 9 double rooms in total and 6 kitchen living room with 6 double sofa bed ( 18 adults sleeps + 12 children sleeps).
Services in the apartments:
Kitchenette with 4-burner oven, fridge with freezer, microwave and toaster. Living room with sofa bed. Satellite TV in all rooms. Safe. Independent heating and air-conditioning with internal thermostat and bed, bath and kitchen linen. Bathroom with shower. Hairdrier. Independent entrance to each apartment. All our three-room apartments and four-room apartments have dishwasher.
Restaurant
The characteristic Antica Fonte Restaurant provides breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a choice of set meals menu or an à la carte menu. Here, guests can enjoy the finest typical Tuscan cuisine at especially competitive prices. A take-away service is also provided.
Facilities:
Independent entrance in every apartment
Mini bar in every bedroom
Satellite television
Independent air conditioning and heating
Dishwasher in three-room and four-room apartments
Large free parking
Large private garden for ground floor apartment
Large panoramic terrace for first floor apartment
Barbecue
Three swimming pools (one for children and a jacuzzi one) with modern disinfection system, with marine salt
Swimming pool towels rental
Play ground
Shared laundry
Free rental of mountain bikes
Body treatments and massages
Daily tours and activities
Restaurant adjoining to the resort
Golf nearby:
Golf Club Abbadia www.abbadiagolf.com , for all type of players, professionals and beginners, from which you have a wonderful view of the hill of Colle Val d'Elsa and the towers of San Gimignano. It’s possible also to take part in various courses to learn and improve the golf game hold by Professionals of the Golf Italian Federation.
Golf dell ‘Ugolino
A natural course, difficult, for differences in levels, the handicaps, the small and well defended greens. Considered one of the most suggestive natural golf course of the world, it has been named among the 50 most beautiful golf course of the world by the American writer Chris Santella.
The Golf Club Fontevivo is in the outskirts of San Miniato, an old small town with important Romanesque and renaissance monuments. You can reach it from the highway Firenze-Pisa going out at San Miniato and following the road signs to Fontevivo Tennis and Golf. Apart from the course with 9 holes there is a driving range, tennis courts, a bar and a restaurant which specializes in fish dishes.
Golf Club Villa Gori
6 hole par 3 executive course with practice facilities
Contact Us:
Antica Fonte S.R.L
Loc Casanova
53031 Casole D'Elsa [SI]
Italy
E Mail: info@anticafonteresort.it
Website: www.anticafonteresort.it
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