Agriturismo Poggiacolle

Housing

Accommodation: apartments and rooms

The guest accommodation is a recently renovated eighteenth century pavilioned house.
We can offer rooms with private bath or apartments for 2-4-8-10 people.

Our apartments are furnished in Tuscan country style. The ground floor apartments have brick vault ceilings while the upper floor apartments have typical Tuscan farmhouse ceilings made of terracotta and wooden beams. All the apartments are equipped with satellite television.

Appartamenti

The "Rosa" apartment is on the ground floor of the farmhouse. It has one double bedroom, a bathroom and kitchen.

The "Lavanda" apartment is on the ground floor of the farmhouse and has 2 double bedrooms with bathroom and a kitchen-living room. The rooms enjoy a splendid view of San Gimignano. The apartment measures 70 m².

The "Ginestra" apartment is on the ground floor of the farmhouse and has 3 double bedrooms, all with their own bathroom, and a kitchen-living room. One of the rooms has a brick vault ceiling. The apartment is characterised by old brick arches, restored to their original state using the sandblasting technique. The apartment measures 115 m².

The "Girasole" apartment has 4 double bedrooms, all with their own bathroom, and a large kitchen-living room with a large original century fireplace which dates back to 1700, the year in which the house was built. The apartment also has a TV lounge in the dovecote tower. If necessary, a fifth bedroom can be added on the ground floor. This room has the same entrance as the other 4 rooms situated on the upper floor of the house. Two rooms enjoy a splendid view of San Gimignano. The apartment measures 140 m².

Services

ORGANIC FARM, Breakfast, Swimming pool, Pets allowed, Local products, Organic products, Oil and Wine production/tasting, Credit Cards accepted, Disabled

Sport: Bowling green, Mountain Bike, Ping-Pong, Trekking

Internal Services: TV in room, Final cleaning, Daily cleaning, Heating, TV sat, Wifi

Courses: Courses Painting, Courses Cuisine

External services: Barbecue, Car park, Rental Bikes, Park

Around the guest reception villa there are large green areas with chairs, tables, sun loungers and parasols. Our farmhouse in Tuscany has a 7 x 14 metre swimming pool set in a highly panoramic position 20 metres away from the holiday villa, right opposite San Gimignano. The holiday farm offers guests the hire of mountain bikes, the use of ping-pong facilities and a bowls pitch. Just 500 metres away from the holiady villa, there is an accessorised picnic area in the woods. There are trekking paths running through the estate, connected to a circuit of dirt tracks which wind for more than 30 km all around San Gimignano. Near the holiday farmhouse there are tennis courts (about 1.5 km away), a golf course (about 15 km away) and a five-a-side football pitch (about 2 km away).

Pets are allowed (dogs, cats).

We speak english fluently.

Surroundings

San Gimignano is one of the most picturesque and charming towns in Tuscany. It rises up, closed within its twin circle of walls and filled with high towers, from a sea of olive groves which covers a hill overlooking the Val d’Elsa. San Gimignano is of ancient origin and was named after a bishop of Modena who lived in the 4th century A.D. The town retains, almost undamaged, the architectonic features of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Originally there were 72 towers, but their number had fallen to 25 by the end of the 16th century. Today only 13 remain intact, 7 of which are set around the main square, Piazza della Cisterna. The highest is the tower of Palazzo del Podestà, known as the “rognosa”. The town’s most interesting monuments are the Cathedral, the town hall, known as Palazzo del Popolo, and the church of S. Agostino. The Cathedral, built in 1100, houses frescoes by Taddeo di Bartolo, Benozzo Gozzoli, Barna da Siena and Bartolo di Fredi. It is also home to the chapel of Santa Fina, a renaissance jewel created by the architect Giuliano da Maiano. The chapel’s altar is by Benedetto da Maiano and is overlooked by the enchanting frescoes of Ghirlandaio, which depict the life of Santa Fina, the maiden from San Gimignano who lived in the 13th century. In Palazzo del Popolo in San Gimignano, there is a picture gallery displaying works by Guido da Siena, Pinturicchio, Filippo Lippi, Benozzo Gozzoli and other artists from Sienna and Florence. Dante Alighieri held a meeting in the palazzo on the eighth of May 1300, inviting the people to join the Tuscan Guelph League. In the “Sala di Dante” there is a large “Majesty” by Lippo Memmi. In the Romanesque-Gothic church of S. Agostino visitors can admire an altar by Benedetto da Maiano and a choir decorated with frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli dedicated to the life of S. Agostino.