arrival and accomodation

dinner at “Al Parco” restaurant or in the Country Farm “Noce Torta” made up of the earth fruit of our estate night

breakfast buffet “Noce Torta”, dessert made up with fresh eggs of our hens, home made cake and jam, country  producted salted pork meats, fresh fruit of the season  

leaving for the famous area of Chianti Classico, territory contended from the two cities  Siena and Firenze, extended through 70.000 hectars and distinguished since 1924 by the historical mark “Gallo Nero” (Black Cock), to visit its castles, according to one of the six tours organized from the Municipal Administration of Gaiole in Chianti. 
Between the castles historically and architecturally important the one of brolio, of Meleto and of Badia a Coltibuono.It was refuge and residence of Bettino Ricasoli, statesman and excellent expert of agricolture. In fact he worked at the exact composition of the Chianti wine in its percentage of grapes. At the moment the castle is restructured according to gothic and Siena’s schemes, in a tipical Romanic style; its farm  cultivate about 1.200 hectars. Meleto castle was built at the end of the XIV century, but inside is in Barocco style. Inside the wine cellars wine tasting, if you demand it it will possible a complete meal with local dishes and appropriate wines liqueurs. And then Badia a Coltibuono, a beautuful abbey sorrounded by a suggestive wood. It has been built around an ancient oratory founded by Vallombrosani monks in the IX century as a place of meditation and prayer. It offers at the moment the possibility to visit the court, the cloister  and the wine cellars in wich the Chianti age. In the restaurant it is possible to have a taste or a complete lunch with wines appropriated to the menu you chose

  afternoon: visit to Gaiole and Radda in Chianti

return to Sarteano

dinner night

breakfast buffet and leaving for Montalcino on the Brunello route, visit to the medieval castle and to the wine shop at the insight, free wine tasting

visit to the Banfi farm placed on the south side of Montalcino in the suggestive scenary of wineyard, specialized in high quality wine products. This farm nowdays is a point of reference in the market wine production, offers the possibility to visit its old wine cellars, glass museum, tasting of various tipe of wine, to lunch combining 5 different kind of Brunello with as many tipical dishes of the traditional tuscany cooking

free lunch in Montalcino or if requested, lunch prepared with the products of our estate “Noce Torta”

in the afternoon it is possible an exursion to the near Castelnuovo dell’Abate where it is placed the beautiful Sant’Antimo Abbey wich is one of the richest and powerful in Tuscany, testimony of one the most important monastic romanesque architecture

return to Sarteano

dinner at “Al Parco” restaurant or at the Country-farm “Noce Torta”

breakfast buffet 

leaving for Montepulciano, to discover the beautiful medieval town and its delicious “Nobile” wine in an ancient local wine

lunch at “Al Parco” restaurant or at the Country-farm   “Noce Torta”

afternoon: our staff will give you information about excursions to: Trasimeno Lake and the neighbouring towns, like the beautiful Castiglione del Lago or Panicale; Cetona, suggestive medieval village with very ancient traces to discover in Prehistorical Museum and in Belverde grottoes; San Casciano dei Bagni; the Naturalistic, Artistic and Cultural Park of Val d’Orcia ( Pienza, a lovely town of Renaissance, Bagni Vignoni and its thermal treatments, Castiglione d’Orcia, Radicofani , San Quirico d’Orcia, Monticchiello)

return to Sarteano

dinner

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