In October we took an incredible week long trip to the Tuscan region of Italy. It was our first trip to Italy which is a 7 hour drive to the northern border. It took us about 10 to get to the region but was a beautiful drive through the Bavarian Alps, Austria & the Dolmites Region of Italy. We rented a villa on a for rent by owners vacation site called HomeAway. We really lucked out. Our villa was on this beautiful hillside over looking the town of Pontassieve & just below a Castello that is now a winery owner & operated by the Frescobaldi Family & surrounded by vineyards & gorgeous rolling countryside. (see picture above) It felt straight out of a travel brochure! The villa owners, that lived in the main house on the property, were amazing to us & so very helpful. The Italian food & wine was so wonderful. We were about 30km outside of Florence Italy. While we were there we took several day trips to places like Pisa, Siena, Florence & Venice Italy on our way home to Germany. It was a dream vacation & way too many pictures to share on this blog. So in the following posts I will list the town, pictures & some descriptions. On this trip we truly learned why the Italians call it 'la dolce vida'...
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| Inside our Villa |
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| Beautiful Tuscan sunset |
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| The Villa where we stayed is a renovated barn from the year 1500. There is a large home on the property where the owners live & a small rental apartment attached to that. Also they have a studio apartment on property as well. |
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| Looking downstairs & through the doors |
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| Our views from the villa were amazing.... |
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| The town of Pontassieve was 3km away & was a beautiful old town w/ modern amenities like grocery shopping. |
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| Enjoying a beautiful Tuscan afternoon in October! |
Beautiful!
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