Agriturismo Il Sasso

Housing

Inside the farmhouse are at our guest disposal a reading hall, a big hall with a big fireplace, tv and a lot of parlour games. On reservation is possible to have a lightcandle dinner in the little stone hall, with typical tuscan dishes, prepared only for our guest by the house owner using only our products. Outside, the old threshing floor, is now disposed as a garden, completed of a playng area for the kids.

"Il Sasso" village is sourranded by sunflowers and wheat fields, orchards, olive grooves, vineyards and a little oakwood including a Pic nic area in wich is possible to have relaxing walk or meet our horses: Pegaso, Stella, Pascal. A panoramicsolarium shows the green Sovara Valley.

Services

Swimming pool, Riding school/Horse riding, Pets allowed, Local products, Oil and Wine production/tasting, Credit Cards accepted, Playground, Disabled

Sport: Mountain Bike, Trekking

Internal Services: TV in room, Communal television

External services: Barbecue, Thermal baths nearby, Car park, Park

For the sport lovers are available mountainbikes and less than 2 km far a full equipped sport center with 2 swimming pools, 1 gymn and a tennis court, soccer and beach volley grounds is also possible to organize fine rideat the near manege (6 km), exursions on mountainbike or trekking contacting "Il Circolo degli esploratori" in Sasepolcro.

"Il Sasso" is placed in a very strategic position, really near to all the most important city of Umbria and Toscana: Firenze (km 100), Siena (km 85), Arezzo (km 24), Perugia (km 60), Assisi (km 75), Gubbio (km 60); It also possible to visit the Adriatic coast in only an hour trip (Mirabilandia). Really near to our village is also possible to visit very charming and cultural lands!

Surroundings

Anghiari: west of the upper Tiber, on the slopes of the bowl of hills which encircles the Valley, Anghiari's older quarter preserves its pure medieval character. A fine street on a steep gradient and a square lined with building of noble design were added in the 16th century, beyond the fortified walls. In the Badia church, romanesque in style and octagonal in plan, and in the medieval church of Sant'Agostino and Palazzo Comunale priceless works of art are found. The 6th-century church of Santo Stefano at the foot of the hill is one of the oldest in the region.

The High one Goes them of the Tevere, or Valtiberina, it is the border more orients them of the Tuscany and between the name from the river that crosses it in all its length, until the border with the Umbria. The Valtiberina was border and entirety point of encounter between various civilizations, umbra and the Etruscan, the byzantina and the longobarda. The bishops of Arezzo, "signori" of Rimini and those of the Montefeltro, the popes of Rome and finally the Fiorentini are themselves contesi for centuries these mounts and this goes them. The patrizi roman of the time of Augusto of it discovered the beauty and they constructed villas to you. The roman patricians at the time of Augustus of it discovered the beauty and they constructed villas to you. Then came the feudal lords and the Abbots came who erected you solid castles and monasteri and protervi, and of knows to you that they discovered to places actions to you to satisfy their silks mystical. Michelangelo, been born between these mountains, intuì the life in the heart of the stone, and Piero della Francesca, in his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro, had already hunderstood the secret of light and space and translated it in to paintings. In the Varieties of the architectonic styles, in the uses and customs, the handicraft products, the same language, the Valtiberina reveals influences multiforms that come to them from the Romagna, the Marche and Umbria and that they contribute to deteminare the eccentric character of goes them regarding the from Tuscany context.

The traditional difficulty of transit between the two depositors of the Appennino centers has contributed them to the relative isolation of this goes them in which Sansepolcro has exercised the role of endowed city of one propia appearance and one propia cultural autonomy. Integral cities fluvial bulwarks like Anghiari or centers like Saint Pieve Stefano, camaldolesi abbeys and Franciscan convents, pievi and medieval castles narrate the history of this charming universe and point out to the stranger the more evocative and various routes. The high Goes them of the Tevere is crossed for all its length from Be them Tiberina 3, and from the Superstarda E45 that Rome to the Italy North combines crossing the Appennines just near sources of the Tevere. Other roads, connect it to Arezzo, the Val di Chiana, the Casentino to the west, the Romagna to north, the Montefeltro and the Adriatic to east.