Poggio al Sole lies in the midst of the magnificent scenario of the
Florentine hillsides, and leans over the gentle slopes of the Mugnone
valley. It rests on a 450 m hill, 6 kilometers from Fiesole in a
neighbourhood called Torre di Buiano, only 8 kilometres from Florence. This
viewpoint surrounded by olive groves, cypress trees and fruit trees is
named after the sunny position it offers from sunrise to sunset, in summer
and winter as well.
Poggio al Sole is a small family-run farm and rural B&B, a special place from
which you can reach Florence, Fiesole, and the other artistic towns in
Tuscany. Guests are welcome in a warm and friendly way, and tranquillity
and great care are guaranteed. The typical produces and the Tuscan
cooking cheer our dinner tables every night.On request, wine tours to
farms producing Chianti Rufina and Chianti Colli Fiorentini along the "Wine
Roads" can be organized: they include the visit of the cellars, wine and
typical produce tasting.
THE FARMHOUSE AND THE BARN
We decided to keep the rustic look of the farmhouse and the barn that
have luckily kept their original style until now.
The barn with its stone facade offers three large double rooms named
after Gorse, Iris, and Jasmine, (Ginestra, Iris and Gelsomino), all with
private bathrooms and restored in the original Tuscan style, with wooden
beams, terracotta floors, solid wood for doors, windows and the furniture.
The ancient porch, with is likely to have been the place where tools were
stored, is now the entrance to the rooms and the common hall. The porch
is like a balcony opening on the valley and the fields of olive groves and
fruit trees.
On the front of the barn a century-old oak shades the threshing floor, and
other trees offer a cool relaxing area.
The first floor of the farmhouse offers two large rooms, one of which is a
triple room, all with private bathroom, called Sunrise and Sunset, opening
on the valley and on the city of Florence. On the ground floor of the house
the large chimney place decorates the breakfast room.
Prices include:
Accommodation in comfortably furnished double room (on request, twin
beds).
Large Italian breakfast: home-made cake, bread, milk, coffee, tea, toasted
bread, yoghurt, butter, home-made jams, fruit juice, cheese. In the
summer, bruschetta and tomatoes from our orchard.
Use of hot and cold water, power.
Weekly change of bed linens.
Daily cleaning and bed making.
Heating in winter, according to timetable.
There is a two-night minimum stay, except for log weekends and national
holidays, and August, when the minimum stay is three nights.
In summer: for stays longer than 7 nights (from May to September) the
price per night per double room is e di for triple room.
Bookings for one night, according to availability, are accepted at the
highest price if the request reaches us two days before the date of arrival.
Deposit
Your booking can me guaranteed with the payment of a deposit via postal
and wire transfer.
Check in and check out
You can check in your room from 2.00 pm of your arrival date and check out
by 10.30 am on the day of your departure.
There are several arrivals to the airport L. da Vinci of Florence from the
main Italian and European cities. Once you are at the airport, you can
reach he center of town by taxi, bus, rental car (you can find rental
companies at the airport.
For intercontinental flights you will stop over in Pisa, which is well
connected with Florence through trains that reach Santa S. Maria Novella in
about an hour