Welcome to Loli de' Concini's Traditional Tuscany - my guide of hand-picked farmhouses, villa, bed and breakfast and apartmenst in the glorious Tuscany and other properties in the regions of Le Marche, Liguria, Umbria, Apulia and Sicily. I personally visited and selected each of these wonderful villas, farmhouses and farm holidays, bed and breakfast , wishing to offer you a truly and enchanting experience in each Region you will choose.
Tuscany. To get the best out of Tuscany I would suggest a visit during the months of spring or autumn. Spring when the flowers are budding, the air is warm and the light is clear. There is nothing more beautiful than the countryside at this time.
Imagine the beaches along Tuscany, the lapping waves of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Beginning from north, where the Tyrrhenian meets the Ligurian Sea, two maritime coastlines dissimilar and each marvellous in its own way. Immense beaches adjoining pine forests from Massa Carrara to Grosseto.
Autumn is a wonderful time of year to come to Tuscany, the countryside is golden, the sun still deliciously warm, and perhaps best of all, the crowds have left and a peacefulness settles over the countryside. Autumn also heralds the grape harvest - the Vendemmia. More than just grape picking, the Vendemmia in Tuscany is a tradition, a cultural event that is celebrated with great gusto by the Tuscan winegrowers.
Maremma's area is a fantastic occasion for a wineries tours where the most important Italian Architects have given their artistic knowledge for building very modern cellars. These gems of enological architecture will enrich the Maremma area offering a true open-air art gallery with the work by Renzo Piano at Rocca Frassinello in Gavorrano, together with the Cantina Petra by Mario Botta in Suvereto, and the Biserno Estate in Bibbona, of Ludovico Antinori, designed by Gae Aulenti.
I really hope that everyone will consider this occasion to match the Etruscan ruins, the coast, wine and Art Gallery.
Umbria is often described as verdant thanks to its hills, valleys and abundant vegetation, vineyards and olive groves. The wide range of flora is characterised by the oak and beech trees. The fauna is rich in variety and here you can see squirrels, foxes, porcupines and beech-martens and there are a great number of different species of migratory and indigenous birds.
The Marches is an enchanting region of Italy with a varied landscape - a combination of hilly countryside and a long coastline extending along the Adriatic Sea for about 160 km. The harmonious geometry of the fields cultivated according of the ancient traditions; the yellow of the sunflowers, the ochre of the hay, the pale green of the olive groves, the intense green of the fruit trees and other vegetables is an extraordinary view. The hills slope down to the intense blue of the sea where we find the ancient traditions of fishing life.
Liguria is made up of the Riviera Levante, a coastal, hilly strip of land that stretches from Genoa to La Spezia, and decidedly the most beautiful coastline in the north of Italy. The Riviera di Levante, is part of the cape of Portofino, the Gulf Paradise and the Gulf of the Tigullio with seaside resorts Rapallo, Portofino, Santa Margherita, Chiavari, Sestri Levante, Zoagli, Camogli .The south of the coast is bounded by the charming villages of the Cinque Terre and the Gulf of the Poets.
Puglia.One of the most fascinating Italian regions is, without doubt, Puglia. Its colours that go from the deeper reds of the soils, to the greens of the triumphant olive trees, that have majestically stood on their articulated trunks for centuries, to the greens of the vines and of the rich orchards, to the oranges and greens of fruit trees, to the deep blue of the sea that blends with the sky.
At a height of about 250 metres above sea level, Ostuni, " the white village" part of the Itria Valley, " The Trulli Valley" that is spreading over the top in the sloping seven hills mostly covered by the green of the olive-grove and vineyard. Its territory is stretching from the borders of the eastern Murgia to the Adriatic, with a sequence of extraordinarily beautiful landscapes and coast, an unbroken line of golden sandy beaches, little bays edged with luxuriant Mediterranean maquis, flooded with light, watched over by the towers along the coast on which flies the European "clean water" flag.
SICILY, the trident island, with its perimeter from Trapani to Messina to the City of Ragusa, was for centuries the meeting point of all of the Mediterranean civilisations. We must remember the province of Trapani and ist surroundings where we find Segesta, with its Greek Temple and Amphitheatre, and next to it Selinunte, where the remains of Temples, Fortifications and Acropolis can still be distinguished. A few kilometres away from Trapani, is the city of Agrigento, which the Pelagie islands are part of.
Then Syracuse, the city loved by Pindarus in the distant 400 BC, has also been appointed as World Heritage, and it stretches out towards the sea with its island of Ortigia, which separates the two ports of the city: Porto Grande and Porto Piccolo. Ortigia is the real old town centre of the city, and it represents all of the epochs this town has lived through, up to our days.
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