Agritourism
MONTE SANTE MARIE
ASCIANO
ATTENTION: This structure is at present in restructuring. The activity is now suspended for works. Few country and heated apartments and some rooms which will be probably added next year. No frills. About 15 beds obtained from the ancient lodgings, which have kept the structure and the name of their inhabitants. Blinding panoramas, ancient doors and big locks. Simple furniture with some pieces of furniture and other ones built with hundred-year-old beams. “ Monte Sante Marie” is not the typical farmhouse. The holding is a big farm, a real one, not a hotel disguised as a farm. There is a very little swimming pool which faces the Crete, a splendid terrace-solarium which overlooks a blunting landscape, walks and a lot of paths to discover little by little, day after day. No multilingual graduates disguised as countrywomen, no managers dressed up as a farmer. In the little room obtained from the barn, you can read, talk, play, watch TV. Outside, the whole village to walk through, sit in the shade of lindens, watch squirrels climbing up the centuries-old cypresses, discover the ravines and foreshortening of the millenarian castle. Smiles, tranquillity, evenings spent drinking in company, listening from the owners’ mouth the tales of the village, the stories of sieges and reconstructions, the anecdotes of the village. You could also have a guided visit to the “secrets” of “Monte Sante Marie” and its mysterious undergrounds which still hold the Medieval gate of the castle. Or an excursion as far as Palazzo Primo, an extraordinary farmhouse of the Thirteenth century which gave hospitality to the Templars and the knights of the Order of Malta.ATTENTION: This structure is at present in restructuring. The activity is now suspended for works. Few country and heated apartments and some rooms which will be probably added next year. No frills. About 15 beds obtained from the ancient lodgings, which have kept the structure and the name of their inhabitants. Blinding panoramas, ancient doors and big locks. Simple furniture with some pieces of furniture and other ones built with hundred-year-old beams. “ Monte Sante Marie” is not the typical farmhouse. The holding is a big farm, a real one, not a hotel disguised as a farm. There is a very little swimming pool which faces the Crete, a splendid terrace-solarium which overlooks a blunting landscape, walks and a lot of paths to discover little by little, day after day. No multilingual graduates disguised as countrywomen, no managers dressed up as a farmer. In the little room obtained from the barn, you can read, talk, play, watch TV. Outside, the whole village to walk through, sit in the shade of lindens, watch squirrels climbing up the centuries-old cypresses, discover the ravines and foreshortening of the millenarian castle. Smiles, tranquillity, evenings spent drinking in company, listening from the owners’ mouth the tales of the village, the stories of sieges and reconstructions, the anecdotes of the village. You could also have a guided visit to the “secrets” of “Monte Sante Marie” and its mysterious undergrounds which still hold the Medieval gate of the castle. Or an excursion as far as Palazzo Primo, an extraordinary farmhouse of the Thirteenth century which gave hospitality to the Templars and the knights of the Order of Malta.