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THE ESTATE: The estate is composed of rooms and apartments and all was carefully furnished in typical Tuscan style with handmade-cotto floors, ceilings with original exposed wooden beams, stuccoed walls, original antique pieces and typical objects from the peasant tradition of the old days.

FACILITES:

• B&B service both rooms and apartments
• 6x12 mt. swimmingpool with whirlpool bath. Solarium, bathrooms and showers
• Air conditioning – heating
• Each room is equipped with complimentary bathroom products and hair-dryer
• Satellite TV in each bedroom, in all kitchen-living rooms and in the hall
• Safe deposit boxes
• Park and garden
• Mountain bikes
• Laundry room with dryer
• External barbecue
• Some private space outdoor

THE ROOMS: The rooms, spacious and elegantly furnished, are fully independent and with private service. You could choose among Classic, Deluxe or Suite. Each type of room is able to offer you different feature, comforts (some of the bathrooms are equipped with Jacuzzi shower-sauna) and originality to satisfy every need of stay.

THE APARTMENTS: The warm welcome that you can feel when you come in our apartments is due to their spaciousness, rooms are decorated and furnished with extreme care for detail, typical vaulted or brickwork ceiling, handmade cotto tiles laid with narrow joints as was once the custom in Tuscany. The apartments can be for two, four or six people and some of them have a double sofa bed. All apartments feature a fully equipped kitchen with electric oven, microwave oven, dish-washer, toaster. All apartments are equipped with independent heating, air conditioning, satellite TV, safe deposit box.

HISTORY OF ESTATE: The estate consists of a Farmhouse and a Leopoldina built in the 18th century during the extensive reclamation of the Valdichiana by the Grand Dukes of Tuscan. In times past they belonged to the Order of the Knights of St. Stephen and Malta. The Order used to protect the ancient Grand Ducal Farm of Creti and S. Caterina. The restoration of these buildings required some years of works during which the old “cocciopesto” plaster was restablished, walls with the natural stuccoed pigments were painted and where the structure of the fireplaces wee left unchanged, vaults of the old stable were empty and strengthened, columns which define the countryside were stuccoed. Today we can offer you this unique place to enjoy an intense and unrepeatable experience, making you feel part of an environment where things have remained unchanged and the past seems to be brought back to life everyday in its charm and character. You will be able to dine in a kitchen that used to accommodate over thirty people at a time, sleep in the bedroom converted from the old cattle shed where farmers used to spend sleepless nights watching over their cows delivering their calves, sleep in the “tracantone” bed, sleep in the bedroom located in the Loggia or in the bedroom converted from the old dove-tower, a shelter where doves were bred by farmers. Fireplaces will tell you and remind you of stories that were told gathering around them in the cold winter nights. Walls are decorated with paintings and pictures that will explain you old piece of life and tradition. The best images you will be able to behold will come, as if by magic, from the windows opening onto stunning natural settings such as the dark mountains hanging over Cortona, the sweet and seamless country-side and the noble profile of Cortona.

Available upon request:

• Tuscan cooking classes
• Visits with tastings to wineries, cheese dairies and olive-oil mills
• Extra cleaning service
• Baby sitting service

Double Classic Room BB

Double Deluxe Room BB

Triple Room BB

Rates include buffet breakfast, linen change, weekly cleaning, final cleaning. *Use of sofabed $62 supplement per week. Extra bed child up to 3 yrs free. Child 3-12 yrs extra bed $31 per day. Extra bed adult $47 per day.