LA FORNACE
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"I still miss the tranquil life there, the lovely views, the food..."
My husband and I were living in Rome and went to Calcione to buy our first dog, an Italian Greyhound bred by the Marchese della Stufa. We had been thinking of leaving Rome and moving to the country nearby. We fell in love with Tuscany and with Calcione especially. We rented La Fornace for 6 months to see how we liked the place and stayed there for 17 1/2 years!
The Tuscan countryside is beautiful but that at Calcione is the most beautiful of all with the rolling hills, fields, woods, olive groves, vineyards and medieval villages perched atop hills. It is exactly like the background of a Raffaello painting. The location is the best because the site is in the middle of this pristine countryside yet only 10 minutes from the autostrada whence one can go anywhere in Italy. It is near Florence, Siena, Arezzo, the Chianti wine growing area, and Assisi, Perugia, Spoleto, Gubbio in Umbria., and Rome is only 2 hours away, Venice 3, and Pisa and the Mediterannean 2 1/2.
The 17th century farmhouses are charming, yet they are very comfortable to live in. We particularly liked La Fornace because it is slightly isolated and only a stone's throw away from the small lake where we used to have picnics and spend many hours during the summer. I still miss the tranquil life there, the lovely views, the food (I have never had tastier beef, pork, or chicken), the fresh-from-the-farm vegetables, the tree-ripened fruit, the olive oil, the wine, all of which one can get 5 minutes away at three nearby villages - Lucignano, Sinalunga or Monte San Savino. It is truly a memorable experience to live in any one of the old farmhouses at Calcione. I feel so very lucky to have lived there for such a long time, but to spend even 2 weeks there would be special.
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Frances Reed Charlotte,
North Carolina - USA
email: montoro200@aol.com
or Fran_Reed@belk.com
Phone: 704-362-5101
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