Famiglia

Located on one of our favorite vacation rental properties in Tuscany, the Famiglia is a lovely two-bedroom apartment. Furnished with exceptionally distinguished taste, tender loving care and plenty of Tuscan antiques, the Famiglia is a perfect Tuscan country home. It has a combined living and dining room with full kitchen facilities. Its two bedrooms share a bathroom. And the apartment shares an attractive common entry room with the “Coppia” apartment. The room has a locked front door for complete privacy.

The apartment is located on a vineyard near Montalcino, an easy drive to Siena, the Chianti Valley and many pretty, Tuscan hill towns beyond. Your host Anna is a retired teacher who speaks good English. She and her family are very friendly. Wine is available for guest purchase, including the family’s own Brunello. The property is a perennial favorite! Other vacation rental apartments on the farm include the Coppia, the Ada Teresa and the Pergola.

This apartment may be combined with Coppia as the San Michele, when available, for a group of five who wish to have 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths.

Montalcino is a beautiful hill town, sporadically populated in Etruscan times and permanently settled around 1000 AD. The town was important in medieval times and its thirteenth-century walls are still largely intact. Today Montalcino is known for the Brunello wine made in its surrounding farmlands. Its center is pedestrian-friendly and walkable. Its narrow streets are lined with shops, good restaurants, lively cafés and wine bars. It hosts an open-air market on Fridays and offers a museum of sacred art. Visitors to the town’s fourteenth-century fortress can climb its tower for a spectacular view of the countryside or sample local wines in its basement cantina. The town offers banks, ATMs, coffee bars, a grocery store and a good bakery.

Staying in the countryside outside Montalcino puts you in the heart of the Tuscan wine belt, in the shadow of countless wineries and an easy drive to Chianti country. Traditional farm life continues in Montalcino and the many beautiful hill towns that surround it. Here, artisans sell pottery, small restaurants create traditional Tuscan meals, and old parish churches hide stunning frescoes.

Montalcino is about 40 minutes south of Siena and an 90 minutes south of Florence. Other day trips from UnTours’ Tuscany vacation rental apartments include the historic hill towns of San Gimignano, Pienza, Montepulciano, and San Galgano; the Etruscan sites of Volterra, Chiusi, and Cortona; the natural beauty of Mt. Amiata and the coast; and the monasteries of Monte Oliveto and Sant’Antimo.

The apartments on this farm are among our most popular, due largely to the owners. Anna is one of our most beloved landladies. She and her husband ,Lodovico, recently moved from their Siena home to the farm. Anna is a retired teacher who speaks English and is incredibly warm and friendly. She and Lodovico treat their guests like members of the family, offering warm hospitality without being intrusive. Our Tuscany South UnTour staff person is always available by cell phone if guests have problems or concerns.